Say little and do much- Shammai, Pirkei Avot Liberia Liberia located in the continent of Africa and the oldest republic in Africa and it consists of 16 ethnic and the largest ethnic in the country is known as Kpelle. Liberia is famously known as the land of free and it’s founded by the free African-Americans and freed slaves from United States in 1820. The population in 1994 was estimated 2, 893, 800.The civil war broke in 1989 to 1997 is believed to cost about 200, 000 lives of the Liberian. Discrimination is under the Sex and Gender topic where it shows the different treatment between man and women. According to the free dictionary.com, discrimination can be defined as unfair treatment of a person or group on the basis of prejudice.
Sola Ajimatanrareje Mr. Feere Intercultural Communication 122 27 April 2011 Nigerian Culture – Yoruba Nigeria is located on the west side of Africa. Nigeria is made up of many ethnic groups, over 50 languages, and over 250 dialects and ethnic groups. There are three main ethnic groups, which are also the three largest ethnic groups: Hausa-Fulani, Igbo, and Yoruba. My main focus will be on the Yoruba culture. Although Yoruba people live on the west coast of Africa, they can also be found in the eastern Republic of Benin and Togo.
By examining several examples of Benin ritual objects we are going to show what their functions are in the ritual practices of the Edo people. These functions will elucidate the sustained continuity of the divine power of the Oba and the Ancestors. List of Illustrations. Figure 1.- Benin bronze plaque, sixteenth century, National Museum of African Arts, Washington, D.C. (Curnow 1997: 77) Figure 2. - Ukhure rattle staff, 64 in, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Blumenthal Fund, 1974.5 (Mullen Vogel 1978:88-89) 1-Full length picture, 2-Top showing rattle chamber, 3-Top showing Oba’s thumbs and elephant, 4-Bottom front, 5-Bottom back..
Africa: The Motherland Since the early years of civilization, Africa has been looked down upon. Little do others know, Africa is the originator of everything that exists today. Africa has framed the way the world works. Many have taken away from Africa without giving credit to where it is due. Africa is the motherland of all civilization because it is the originator of the human race, it has taught other civilizations, and it is home to the first religions.
They mostly portrayed the dominant people in the community such as warriors, priests and chiefs. The images on the brass plaques mainly portray the characters and events that animated the court. The main purpose of the art was to glorify their King as he was approached with utmost respect (Willett, Frank 2005). However, in the Europeans perspective, Africans were considered Pagans and were believed to be practicing cults. The African arts were considered primitive and thus their lifestyle.
His prejudice beliefs illuminate the hypocrisy within his culture, and the compulsion of undermining their own heritage. Chestnutt uses the protagonist, Mr Ryder, as a doorway to illustrate the falseness in upholding a certain social supremacy and identity in his short story “The Wife of His Youth.” The story explains the transformation of one African American’s life; gone from being a slave to the Dean of a prestigious society. Mr. Ryder was a highly respected member of the Blue Vein Society, which only allows entry to those who meet their exclusive requirements. The purpose of the society itself was clear: “to establish and maintain correct social standards” and boundaries of exclusivity which will demarcate the domain of “the favored few.” Lorne Fienberg, who has studied closely the role color plays in Chestnutt’s story states that, “The black aspiration towards participation in a new republic assumed several dimensions: political responsibility and voting rights, education, the acquisition of property and wealth, and the cultivation of manners and cultural refinement.” All of these things are what Mr. Ryder aimed to achieve with the Blue Vein society. The lighter the person’s skin was, the more respect and acceptance they will receive from the members of the Blue Vein.
Collins does take issue however with such an exclusionary tone. To Collins, and the authors she looks to for guidance and affirmation, a more all-encompassing vision of Black feminism must be conceptualized. Collins assimilates numerous Black female writers and intellectuals into the fold of this more holistic definition. Collins settles on "a process of self- conscious struggle that empowers women and men to actualize a humanist vision of community." The core themes that are at the base of Collins development of Black feminist thought are addressed in the majority of the book.
We can trace back large portions of the world’s citizens to Africa and it is also said that we all descend from Africa itself as homosapiens. It is said to have dated back to over 200,000 years ago and each ancestry derived from different paths in and out of Africa. Africa was the dawn of humanity and was were we all came from after we were derived from “Scientific Eve” who is dated back to about 140,000 years ago. ”Eve” set the stage for us all and since we descended from her various civilizations began and also began to slowly migrate out of Africa and move to different parts of the world. In the Genographic Project over 300,000 people around the world were swabbed for DNA in order to be able to trace back 4 to 5 generations.
Nigerian tribes were outweighed in military resources and skills compared to British forces. Because of the colonization of Nigeria, the country witnessed political, cultural, and economic change during the colonial period". British Colonialism installed in Nigeria the foundations of a modern democracy. All important decisions were made under a British governor. In 1966, the dream of flourishing democracy was diminished when a series of massacres occurred, inter-country arguments came about, and a military coup started the first of a series of military governments.
Reuben N. Paul Sarah Foust Vinson, Ph.D. ENG. 303 (Non-Western Literature) 09 October 2014 Title: The Role of Women in “Things Fall Apart” and “Disgrace” While the books are set in different times and places and thus seem to begin with very different ideas about the roles of women in society, by the end, both texts show how patriarchal structures limit women. Chinua Achebe, the author of the book “Things Fall Apart” focuses on so many problems including the struggle between change and tradition for the Ibo society of Nigeria by bringing out new ideas, different dimensions and beliefs through Christian Missionaries. One important factor that Achebe described in this novel was the role of that women play in the Ibo society. In his book “Things Fall Apart”, he did stretched out some important roles that women performed and he also discussed some of the worse or bad information about the role of women in the Ibo society.