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    African Literature and Culture: African writers’ representation of male-female relationships Analyzing male-female relationships in African literature enables a better understanding of how African writers view the gender roles including the application of religious aspects‚ marriage and identity‚ midwives and slave women‚ nationalism‚ and migration. In earlier works‚ the female gender was often perceived as “the Queen Mother.” Many African writers portray women in traditional roles whereas articles

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    Contemporary African Art

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    Contemporary African Art merges the past with the present and is used as an expression to commonly define the sum of style and the national production of the African continent that is done through the use of contemporary African art. This type of art can be traced all the way back to the Sub-Sahara region within the continent where artist have found a way to combine ancient art forms with creative mediums. You may not be able to recognize the meaning in traditional African art‚ and the contemporary

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    African American Freedom

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    Freedoms in the nineteenth century Women‚ African Americans‚ and Native Americans in the nineteenth century did not have many freedoms. For women most men thought they were helpless and could not do most things that men would be able to do.This caused the men of the household to do the man work such as‚ go to work and come home expecting their every wish to be granted. On the other hand the woman had to clean‚ take care of the children and cook. Woman were essentially confined to the house and did

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    African American Culture The African American culture is one of the more diverse cultures out there. Many of these people practice different beliefs. African Americans live in all parts of the world and just like other cultures African Americans have people that live in what is considered poverty some that are considered middle class and some considered upper class. African Americans come with a lot of interesting thing like the language they speak which is called Ebonics and all the different stereotypes

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    a way to reaffirm their superiority. The brutal beatings and extreme conditions that African Americans received was a common occurrence during the early to mid 1800’s. It was clear that slavery was considered normal by many people. After the Civil War‚ it became extremely difficult for slave owners to adjust to the new laws. It is completely gut wrenching to hear and read about the horrible abuse of African Americans. However‚ during these times many racist southerners were raised only knowing

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    Africans in the Berlin Conference The Berlin Conference of 1884-1885 established most of the borders of contemporary nation-states on the African continents today. The Conference set in motion the “scramble for Africa.” Out of the 14 African states no African leader was present at the conference to assert claims to territory and to agree to regulations on trading. Five of the states at the conference did not even end up with any colonies but had more of a say than all the African leaders. The

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    from Libson and will arrive in the town of Malindi on the East coast of Africa. I always wondered about the African cultures and life styles. Well we are to arrive at the city tomorrow and I will have a busy day on my hands. September 12th‚ 1525‚ I wake up to a humid and dry day with the sun beating down on decks of the ship. In the distance‚ I can see Malindi‚ a gleaming city out of the African coast line. As the ship is being pulled in‚ I saw the people of the town‚ a lot of them were “black and white”

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    African Slavery Causes

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    Throughout 200 years the Atlantic slave trade was removing millions of Africans out of their daily routine life in their home continent of Africa and taking them in the the new world; North America. Africans on board the slave vessels weren’t just taking straight to America; they had a long voyage ahead of them. Taking one of 3 routes; 2 different triangular routes or the middle passage; with all horrible conditions surrounding them‚ Africans were not approving toward. Many got deadly diseases; htey have

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    African American Religion Joe Turner’s Come and Gone Misty Ricard Before Africans were brought to America during the slave trade‚ they had their own culture and society. They had their own language and dance.  They also had their own religion.  History tells us that the Europeans justified their abuse toward the Africans as helping them become more civilized because the Africans lifestyle appeared primal to them and not as developed and industrialized as theirs. What

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    African-Americans in Media

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    There are many shows on T.V. today that shows African-Americans in a negative light. There is more representation of people color in the media than in past times‚ the quality of the product is more important than quantity. Fun has been poked fun at the African-American throughout the years‚ by presenting a character of buffoon or childlike quality. The reproduction of stereotypes of African- Americans in film has existed since the day of slavery. Early in the 20th century the coon character was developed

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