(Before 1800) The Benin kingdom (not to be confused with the modern Republic of Benin) was established before 1400, most likely in the 13th century, just west of the lower reaches of the Niger River in what is today Nigeria. According to oral tradition, the first king of the new dynasty was the grandson of a Yoruba king of Ile-Ife. Benin reached its greatest power and geographical extent in the 16th century. The kingdom’s vicissitudes and slow decline thereafter culminated in 1897, when the British burned and sacked the Benin palace and city. Benin City thrives today, however, and the palace, where the Benin king continues to live, has been partially rebuilt.
Set against this background, this report will outline the process used for collating and weighting available evidence. A table of relevant evidence will be provided and will detail the positive and negative implications for further habituation. A recommendation will be provided along with a discussion on how this was reached based on the four objectives stated above. Finally, there will be a brief conclusion that sums up the main points that led to the recommendation. Process used To reach a recommendation I commenced with a review of available course material and relevant evidence was selected in order to identify the pros and cons of habituating another gorilla group based on the objectives provided.
Overview of Ghana This briefing provides a discussion on Ghana’s practical aspects of managing LOVEJOY Human Capital Management Company. It includes what it takes for the senior managers and executives to be successful in Ghana with human resource management. In addition, this cultural briefing paper of Ghana will discuss briefly the following: location, history, size, language, traditions, values and ethics, life styles, and the characteristics of Ghana culture. This briefing will create a foundation on Ghana political system, economic system, their business practices and tips for leading in Ghana and concluding with the practical aspects of managing Ingram’s Building and Infrastructure Company in Ghana. Ghana is located on the west coast of Africa, a former British colony known as the gold coast.
Boko Haram From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Boko Haram People Committed to the Propagation of the Prophet's Teachings and Jihad جماعة أهل السنة للدعوة والجهاد Participant in the Nigerian Sharia conflict Active 2002– Ideology Islamism Leaders Mohammed Yusuf Abubakar Shekau[1] Mallam Sanni Umaru[2][3][not in citation given] Abu Darda[citation needed] Abu Zaid - Spokesman[3] Headquarters Kanamma, Nigeria Area of operations Northern Nigeria Opponents Nigerian State Battles/wars Nigerian Sharia conflict 2009 Nigerian sectarian violence Map of Nigerian states that currently implement Shariah People Committed to the Propagation of the Prophet's Teachings and Jihad[4] (Arabic: جماعة اهل السنة للدعوة والجهاد, Jama'atu Ahlis Sunna Lidda'awati Wal-Jihad), better known by its Hausa name Boko Haram, is a Salafist jihadist terrorist organisation based in the northeast of Nigeria, in the areas predominated by the Kanuri people. [5] Founded by Mohammed Yusuf in 2001[6] or 2002,[7] the organisation is a Muslim sect that seeks to "abolish the secular system and establish an Islamic state"[8] and "establish Sharia system of government in the country. "[9] The movement, whose name in the Hausa language Boko Haram translates as "Western education is sacrilege"[8] or "Western education is a sin",[10] is divided into three factions, and in 2011, was responsible for more than 450 killings in Nigeria. [8] Though the group first became known internationally following sectarian violence in Nigeria in 2009, it does not have a clear structure or evident chain of command. [11] Moreover, it is still a matter of debate whether Boko Haram has any links to terror outfits outside Nigeria with some claiming one of its factions maintains links with terror groups in Somalia, North Africa[8] and with Al-Qaeda.Contents 1 Etymology 2 Ideology 2.1 Criticism 3
He, nonetheless, could not energize his followers, the various countries, to help cease-fire in Rwanda. Africans were unwilling to supply troops to Rwanda following the United States’ reluctance to help in calming the situation. Here, Boutros had the passion for helping solve the problem, he had energy but he did not possess the ability to influence (or energize) his followers. He was thus considered an ineffective leader and was denied a second opportunity to serve as secretary-general for
Introduction In this essay I will attempt to summarise the work Thick Description: Toward an Interpretive Theory of Culture by Clifford Geertz. I will do this by recognising the most important aspects of the work and highlighting my understanding of them. Explaining Geertz’s semiotic concept of culture. In his essay Thick Description, Geertz challenges the accepted techniques in which culture is assessed. He uses Clyde Kuckhohn’s Mirror of Man, a work he believes is a good general introduction to anthropology, as a basis to describe his own view.
European penetration of the interior had begun decades earlier with the explorations of two German missionaries, Johannes Rebmann and Johann Ludwig Krapf, in 1847–49, and by the English explorer John Hanning Speke at Lake Victoria in 1858 (“Kenya – History”).The first Europeans to invade Kenya were German agents of the Church Missionary Society. At first, in the 1870s and 1880s, the British were not interested in Kenya, only other African countries. It wasn’t until the wake of the Berlin Conference in 1885 that they gained interest in the country. In 1886, the Germans made agreements with Britain that created a boundary between German territories in Tanganyika (part of present day Tanzania) and British territories in Kenya. The Imperial British East Africa Company was chartered in 1888 to administer Kenya, but the company soon found itself losing large amounts of money through its vain attempts to extend control over the interior (“History, British Colonization”).
Using this definition will lay the foundation of this paper. This will allow me to effectively demonstrate one aspect of my own culture from an etic (outsider) mindset in part one and capably exhibit one aspect of another culture’s mentality from an emic (insider) point of view. In depth, I will inspect the influence of culture on communication, the willingness to communicate, communication apprehension, and communication competence; in contrast I will explain the practice of polygamy in the Sub-Saharan Africa and why it is practiced. Part I In this section, I will discuss the influence of communication, the willingness to communicate, communication apprehension, and communication competence. In the textbook, Cultural Anthropology, Crapo states, “An etic description or analysis—that is, an outsider's or observer's allegedly "objective" account—creates a model of a culture by using cross-culturally valid categories, which anthropologists have found to be generally useful for describing all cultures” (p.27).
The Dark-Middle Ages Although the Dark Ages are known to have ended in the year 1066, the coming of the Middle ages did little to enlighten a dark Europe. In Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales, the Middle Ages were portrayed as a dark and destitute period in history due to the lack of an altruistic society, the corruption within the institution of the Roman Church, and through the glorification of war and violence. Despite the arrival of a new age, the animalistic culture of the Dark Ages persisted. The Middle Ages was a time where one’s own welfare was all that mattered, and any sense of altruism in Middle Age society was virtually non-existent. Despite the ever-present crimes of the time, which included thefts, kidnappings, and murders, there was no institution to combat communal harms.
Contrary to these are dysfunctional aspects which are not intended and not functional for the given society. Roger Evertt cites the example of three societies across the globe to prove that technological innovation may have dysfunctions or unintended consequences. In all the three cases an attempt was made to transfer a technology assuming that it will prove beneficial to the local society, but at the end the technology proved more harmful than beneficial. The first excerpt is of the Egyptian villagers who were having extreme problems in obtaining pure clean water around the Nile River Delta. And how their solution was unsuccessful to their problem in the lack of knowledge towards the individuals perception of a new innovation.