and Southeast Asia b) their societies mostly avoided oppressive authority‚ class inequalities ( forested region in present-day southern Nigeria – 3 political) c) Benin: centralized state ruled by a warrior king ‚EwuareP d) Igbo : dense population and trade‚ and rejected kingship and state building e) Yoruba‚ Benin‚ and Igbo peoples traded among themselves and beyond 4. Agricultural village societies went through change in the centuries before 1500 a) population growth‚ emergence
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Africa The countries of Mozambique‚ Mali‚ Eritrea‚ Ghana‚ Uganda‚ Benin‚ Botswana‚ Ethiopia‚ Ivory Coast‚ and Tanzania are trying to find new ways to stabilize the human and natural resources that are so important. They are trying to make models of development despite the crumbling of the other countries. With the hard work that these countries have put forth‚ they are building a nation based on the prosperity and the security that they are willing to work hard for‚ and building a nation based
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“AFRICA WAS A CULTURAL WASTELAND‚ UNTIL THE EUROPEANS SOWED THE SEEDS OF CIVILIZATION ON HER CULTURAL BARREN SHORES” BY OKOJIE EHINOMHEN PETER APRIL 2012 INTRODUCTION That “Africa was a cultural wasteland‚ until the Europeans sowed the seeds of civilization on her cultural barren shores” amounts to no culture in this geographical entity inhabited by people until the Europeans brought them the way of life. It is tempting to want to be subjective rather than being objective in discussing this
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FRAMEWORK OF ANTI-MONEY LAUNDERING AND COMBATING OF FINANCIAL TERRORISM IN THE ECOWAS REGION By Oladeji Ifeoluwa Temilolu 1.0 Introduction Money laundering as a form of cross border crime involves the use of legal tender in a financial transaction in order to conceal the origin‚ source or destination of such legal tender derived through illegal means. The sole aim of every money launderer is to misrepresent to any law enforcement authority or agency that the source of the funds are clean.
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HISTORY OF MODAKEKE Modakeke is a town in Osun State‚ South West Nigeria‚ with a population of close to three hundred thousand people.The Modakekes are also known as the "Akoraye" and have a history of valor at war and are prosperous farmers. With the fall of the Oyo Empire to the Fulani‚ the Yoruba kingdom was thrown into confusion and the inhabitants of the Old Oyo were dispersed and started new settlements all around Yoruba land.Fleeing southwards in search of new abodes after the fall of the
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B In no more than 500 words‚ after reading the following text‚ how can it tell us about cross-cultural encounters? --- This piece of text can offer a great deal of information on cross-cultural encounters between the Western world and the Benin people. It is an entry in the Encyclopaedia Britannica from the entry on ’Negro’‚ published in 1910-1911. The author was T.A. Joyce‚ an Assistant in the Department of Ethnography at the British Museum‚ at the time of publication. It was written aimed
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also promoted religious freedom. (Document 4) Hausa sculptures were thought of as wonderful because of all the different materials used to make them. A Hausa artisan used clay‚ wax‚ copper‚ zinc‚ and led to make a bronze sculpture. The bronzes of Benin were created using a lost-wax technique. In this technique an object was sculpted in wax‚ then covered in clay and baked. The wax was then filled with molten metal. Artists often portrayed warriors or
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planetary home‚ especially if not kept healthy and maintainable. The dried cod became a vital economic product and main of the Portuguese intake. The Portuguese found Muslim merchants entrenched along the African coast. The Slave Coast‚ as the Bight of Benin‚ was searched by the Portuguese since the 1470s. It was not until they reached the kingdom of kongo’s coast in the 1480s that they overdid the Muslim trading territory. Also during the 16th century‚ the Portuguese also started to settle their newly
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Publishing‚ Rome-Italy Vol. 3 No. 3 September 2013 89 Factors Affecting the Study of Accounting in Nigerian Universities Odia‚ J.O. (PhD) Department of Accounting‚ University of Benin‚ Benin City‚ Nigeria odiajames@yahoo.com‚ 234-8056580011 Ogiedu‚ K.O. (PhD) Department of Accounting‚ University of Benin‚ Benin City‚ Nigeria koogiedu@yahoo.com‚ 234-8033600045 Doi:10.5901/jesr.2013.v4n3p89 Abstract This paper examines the factors affecting students ’ career choice of accounting in Nigerian
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unified by its focus on the civil war and the physical‚ social and psychological consequences of that war. Achebe wrote a collection of poems in which the first poem was named “1966”. It refers to the months preceding the outbreak of the civil war. “Benin Road” is another poem which takes up a related theme of the unexpected but inevitable convergence of fragile beauty or idealism and power. In this poem the driver is identified with his car whose speed‚ power and weight all equate with violence and
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