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    Africa and Livingstone

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    A review of a recent biography of David Livingstone began with the words “His heroic figure looms over the continent”. Discuss constructions of white ‘heroism’ in Africa‚ focussing on a critical analysis of two  journalistic or non-fiction texts.  The texts you choose to analyse can be from any historical era or they can be modern‚ or  you can choose to analyse one historical  text and one modern text but at least one must be by‚ or about‚ Livingstone. As this is a Journalism module‚ one of the

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    Ironworking in Africa

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    2. Ironworking in Africa The Bantu speaking people in three thousand B.C.E. to one thousand C.E. began to migrate south and east from where they originated‚ which was the Benue region‚ in Africa. For years to follow they migrated through the Savanna‚ implementing agriculture and ironworking‚ particularly iron smelting to other African tribes. Throughout their migration‚ they assimilated with the other inhabitants of Africa‚ sharing their language‚ agricultural innovations‚ ironworking skills‚ and

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    Hunger in Africa

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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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    Investing in Africa

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    MTN: Investing in Africa Around the 1980’s mobile telephones started showing up for commercial use. They were analog style‚ cumbersome and expensive to purchase. In the 1990’s digital technology was born and mobile phones became readily available to everyone and less expensive than the previous ten years. By 1998 over 30% of the world population within the areas of Europe‚ Asia‚ and North America had mobile telephones. With this type of usage of mobile telephones‚ Mobile Telephone Network

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    South Africa

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    beginning to look like a developing colony. - Later governors of the Cape Colony encouraged immigration - The descendants of some of the Khoisan‚ who are slaves from other parts in Africa and the East‚ and the white colonists formed the basis of the mixed-race group - The slaves from the East brought to South Africa their religion of Islam - By the second half of the 18th century‚ the colonists – mainly of Dutch‚ German and French Huguenot stock – had begun to lose their sense of identification

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    Overpopulation in Africa

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    Overpopulation in Africa No one likes to be stuck in a traffic jam. In the unfortunate case that drivers do get caught in heavy congestion‚ however‚ they may question where all of other drivers are travelling to‚ or where they are coming from. Some drivers may even suggest that there are too many people on the roads. On a much grander scale‚ some experts are suggesting that there are too many people in the world‚ and they are concerned that the population is growing too rapidly. Less than

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    Christianity in Africa

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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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    Poem Africa

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    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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    History of Africa

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    The Birthplace of humanity All people are most likely to be descendents of beings who lived in Africa millions of years ago. Fossils and genetic evidence suggest that both humans and the forest dwelling great apes descended from a common ape like ancestor who lived in Africa 5 to ten million years ago. The earliest known hominids to which humans belong were the australopithecines‚ which emerged about four million years ago. Recently scientists have found Homo habilis fossils in the Caucasus region

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    Iban Traditional

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    IBAN TRADITIONAL CLOTHING AND ATTIRE SIRAT : THE FORGOTTEN IBAN ATTIRE The loincloths was once of the most basic markers of cultural identity‚ is now distinctively ignored among modern Ibans. Even the so called expert such as the anthropologists give a word or two regarding it‚ then pass on to other matters. The writers on customs seems to forgot the topics altogether.  For as the Dutchman Karl Martin said of the Sulawesi loincloth a hundred years ago‚ “once it’s on it’s hard to figure out how

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