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    Religion in Africa

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    Peoples and Cultures of Africa Religion in Africa All over the world‚ many religions exist and are found in the everyday lives of millions of people. These religions have many cultural influences on the life of a person but also have influences on the government bodies that govern countries. Religion is also an important look at the history of a nation and gives an inside look at how and why a country is run the way it is. In Africa‚ religion plays a tremendous role in everyday lifestyles. The

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    gain colonies in Africa. They all wanted to gain power and prestige. The more territory that they were able to control in Africa the more powerful and important they thought they could become. Africa was tremendously rich in natural resources‚ which could be brought to Europe and turned into manufactured goods. Europeans also needed markets for their manufactured goods. These goods could be sold in Africa for large profits. Often a European nation would take over territory in Africa simply to prevent

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    The colonialism affected Kenya in both positive and negative ways . It had effects on the land ‚ the people ‚ the economy and much more. According to document one ‚ the changes occurred not long after the Europeans gained their power. The Europeans were able to regulate immigration & basically do as they please . While Kenyans were thrown on the back board . Due to the power of the Europeans ‚ ethnic and racial groups were split up and spread all across Africa. In addition being split up the land

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    South Africa

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    The history of South Africa encompasses over three million years. Ape-like hominids who migrated to South Africa around three million years ago became the first human-like inhabitants of the area now known as South Africa. Representatives of homo erectus gradually replaced them around a million years ago when they also spread across Africa and into Europe and Asia. Homo erectus gave way to homo sapiens around 100‚000 years ago. The first homo sapiens formed the Bushman culture of skilled hunter-gatherers

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    Songhai, Africa

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    Songhai‚ Africa The Songhai Empire‚ also known as the Songhay Empire‚ was a state located in western Africa. From the early 15th to the late 16th century‚ Songhai was one of the largest Islamic empires in history. This empire bore the same name as its leading ethnic group‚ the Songhai. Its capital was the city of Gao‚ where a Songhai state had existed since the 11th century. Its base of power was on the bend of the Niger River in present day Niger and Burkina Faso. The Songhai state has existed

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    Corruption in Africa

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    Corruption in Africa July 13‚ 2011 by: Salha Kaitesi Corruption in Africa can be overcome. Period. How? By having outstanding leaders in the community. This can only be achieved if we start at the grassroots level. In other words‚ with our children. The right upbringing for a child brings wonders to the child themselves‚ family‚ community‚ country and Africa at large. Today Africa is covered with corrupt leaders. Not a day goes by during which you don’t read something about how corrupt the continent

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    Religion in Africa

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    Megan Penney E110 10/24/10 Religion in Africa In Africa‚ before the white missionaries came‚ religion involved spiritually worshiping ancestors. Once these whites came though‚ western religion like Christianity was pressed onto the Africans. While some say that this pressure of western religion on the Africans was for their salvation‚ or even for power‚ it was really just pure ignorance on the side of the whites. The people who invaded Africa meant well at first and were supported by the government

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    A Passage to Africa

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    George Alagiah’s choice of language and sentence structure convey the suffering of the Somalian people? It touched me in a way I could not explain. It moved me in a way that went beyond pity or revulsion. George Alagiah’s commentary‚ A Passage to Africa‚ is about his experiences in Somalia during the Civil War. Paparazzi-like‚ he is in search of the “most striking picture” that will appeal to TV audiences back home. The scenes he witnesses‚ however‚ are heartbreaking; the images too disturbing to

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    Over the years‚ many countries suffer from colonialism as a result of other countries for the sole reason that they have different characteristics. The world contains quite a diverse array of cultures‚ all of which are different from each other in various ways. In Things Fall Apart‚ the author Chinua Achebe tells of the cultural practices of the Igbo people to show that even though a culture may have different ideals another‚ the people can sustain themselves with an equal ability. Achebe uses the

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    Stereotypes Of Africa

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    Africa In Hollywood movies‚ Africa is not depicted to be a safe or pleasant place to live and the people are stereotyped to be uncivilized or a warlord. In one of the scenes at the end of Independence Day‚ when we see that the invading army of aliens has finally been defeated by a collaborative effort by the entire world (but the film mostly focusses on the US)‚ and we get a montage of the wreckage on different continents. America gets a high-tech military base‚ Australia gets a modern city scape

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