function. In the poem “Africa”‚ the speaker personifies the country as a woman who has gone through tribulations of getting her country stripped by white men enslaving her sons and daughters. Through it all she regains her strength. What she went through helped her to become a stronger woman‚ and stronger country. The speakers uses vivid imagery‚ metaphors‚ personification and gives human emotions to the continent. The entire poem is a extended metaphor to describe Africa as this beautiful woman
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the African continent in three stages. The first stage which is early Christianity‚ makes Christianity in Africa qualify to be as old as Christianity itself. The second stage involves the Portuguese patronized Christianity in Africa. The third stage of the Christian extension in Africa is marked by circumstances of contemporary modern times. Though the concept of Christianity in Africa is as old as Christianity itself‚ there are very few figures in its long history that are more influential
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THE NOVEL IN AFRICA John Maxwell Coetzee is a South African essayist‚ novelist ‚ linguist‚ literary critic and translator. He has also won the Noble prize in the Literature category. The following lecture ‘The Novel in Africa’ was given by him in the University of California in Doreen B.Townsend Center for the Humanities. This lecture is a fictionalized creation of J.M .Coetzee‚ which upholds his belief that‚ “…a true sense in which writing is dialogic; a matter of awakening counter voices in
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Three species of zebra still occur in Africa‚ two of which are found in East Africa. The most numerous and widespread species in the east is Burchell’s‚ also known as the common or plains zebra. The other is Grevy’s zebra‚ named for Jules Grevy‚ a president of France in the 1880s who received one from Abyssinia as a gift‚ and now found mostly in northern Kenya. (The third species‚ Equus zebra‚ is the mountain zebra‚ found in southern and southwestern Africa.) Physical Characteristics The long-legged
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Hunger is a devastating epidemic that has affected much of Africa. It has caused thousands of people to die each year. Hunger has been one of the toughest problems to solve in Africa. People in countries much like America often take having food for granted. Hunger‚ a vital issue in Africa‚ is often forgotten. There are many causes of hunger in Africa‚ one being war. War has caused crops to be lost‚ money put towards no good‚ and children to lose their parents. (Aaseng‚ 35). It also stops
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Is there a price for life? If so what is it? The issue here concerns South Africa ’s growing HIV/AIDS patients. The world non-the-less isn ’t doing much about the situation that only seems to be getting worse. South Africa already has the highest growing HIV/AIDS rate in the world. The pharmaceutical companies offered very little medical donations or help; they ended up doing quite the opposite. When South Africa attempted to import generic versions of the needed HIV/AIDS drugs because of their
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Lives in Africa What do you think of when Africa is mentioned? Do you picture endless plains‚ deserts‚ lions and exciting expeditions? Or does your mind wander to its people and tribes‚ or the history found here? Whatever the opinion may be‚ one cannot deny Africa has a certain flair to it that cannot be found anywhere else in the world. In Karen Blixen’s novel Out of Africa and Caroline Link’s film adaptation of Nowhere in Africa‚ the two women immerse one in Africa’s rich‚ colorful culture. While
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. South Africa Alicia Hudson SOC 315 Professor Norsworthy May 6‚ 2013 South Africa South Africa‚ a country on the southern tip of Africa‚ has an area of 471‚442sq mi and a population of 44‚188‚000. It is predominately a black ethnicity with 76% of the population. Although South Africa is Africa ’s most developed country‚ most of the black people - rural and urban - are poor‚ with low standards of living. South Africa has vital natural resources such as diamonds and gold and is rich in
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Middle Passage is a term used to describe the forced journey of African slaves from Africa to America in exchange for goods from Europe. It is called the middle passage because it was the middle leg of the ‘triangular trade’. During the 17th century heaps of slaves were kidnapped and transported from the west coast of Africa to America in slave ships. These ships travelled across the Atlantic ocean from and this took about six to eight weeks depending on the weather. Conditions for slaves were horrible
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Malaria in Africa Malaria has been known to exist for thousands of years‚ with its signs documented as early as 5000 years ago in ancient Chinese and Egyptian records. Through out these thousands of years‚ it is believed that this disease has evolved and adapted to its surroundings. Malaria is a parasitic disease in the blood that causes flu-like symptoms. Some signs of this disease include fever‚ chills‚ muscle pain‚ headache‚ nausea‚ vomiting‚ and may also cause jaundice and other serious complications
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