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Tunisia and Islam

In twelve pages this research paper discusses Tunisia with an emphasis upon Islam's regional significance and the role it has play...

An Analysis of the Film, The African Queen

This paper examines the film, The African Queen, and discusses the relationship between movie's co-stars, Humphrey Bogart and Kath...

Sub Saharan Regional Music

In six pages this research paper examines Nigeria and Cameroon in a consideration of the tradition laden music in these African re...

The Creation Gods in Greek and African Mythology

In a research paper containing eight pages the supreme or creation African mythological gods are contrasted and compared with Zeus...

The Way in Which Sundiata and Beowulf Present Heroism

The writer compares and contrasts the Old English poem Beowulf with Sundiata, which is an African epic. The writer argues that whi...

'African Time' in Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

Clack or 'African time' is conceptually defined within the context of Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston in a pape...

Epic of Sunjata, Efuru, and Things Fall Apart Compared

In a paper consisting of six pages these three African novels written by Fa Digi Sisoko, Flora Nwapa, and Chinua Achebe are compar...

Literature as the Continental Mirror of Africa's Struggles

In a paper consisting of three pages the African struggles are examined within the context of Buchi Emecheta's 'The Joys of Mother...

Fatherhood in Master Harold . . . and the Boys by Athol Fugard

In a paper consisting of five pages the representation of fatherhood in the play by the South African playwright focuses upon a co...

Kingship and Society in Sundiata

In three pages this African literary epic is examined in terms of its themes of kingship and society with topics including artisti...

Poetic Reality in the Works of Gwendolyn Brooks and Langston Hughes

In seven pages this paper discusses the poems 'We Real Cool, The Pool Players. Seven at the Golden Shovel' by Gwendolyn Brooks and...

Sixteenth Century African Women

In ten pages this paper analyzes women's roles in African society during the 1500s. Five sources are cited in the bibliography....

African Art and Symbolism

of the symbols of a culture if we have not been born into it, or lived within it for a long time. However we may say that, modern...

Lower Manhattan's African Burial Ground

In ten pages this paper discusses the archaeological discovery of the African burial ground in New York's lower Manhattan. Seven ...

Things Fall Apart Examines Colonialism

Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart is in many ways both an indictment of colonial England's arrogance and ignorance about African c...

New York Times Article on the Economy of Nigeria

.Measures adopted to deal with this situation by the Central Bank of Nigeria led to severe liquidity crunch and escalation in ban...

Contrast and Comparison of Empires in Ghana, Songhay, and Mali with Other Civilizations

a primitive culture when it was colonized. In fact, it was this myth that was generated by Europeans. They needed a reason to ju...

African Philosophy Bantu

In five pages universalistic and particularistic perspectives are employed in a discussion of African philosophical aspects as rel...

Ousmane Sembene's God's Bits of Wood and the Sociopolitical Redefinition of Women's Roles

In one page this paper examines the African society's redefining of women's social and political roles as represented in this nove...

International Sanctions and Apartheid Economic Constraints and the Response of the Government

is economic disruption" (pp. 119). The important intent of the sanctions against South Africa were to disturb both the economic c...

A Robert Staples Letter

In nine pages this research paper presents a letter to the author of The Myth of the Black Matriarchy in which the writer agrees w...

African Writers V.Y. Mudimbe, Sembene Ousmane, and Mariana Ba Compared

which was published in 1960, Ousmane examines the topics of race and class in two distinctly political ways. One approach that he ...

American Families and Single Parents

In ten pages this paper discusses single dual parenting and considers the differences between Caucasian and African single parents...

Essays on Heritage and Culture

In a paper consisting of twelve pages 3 short essays on African heritage and culture are presented with such keywords incorporated...

Urban Environment and Segregation

urban setting is critical to American life. The recent clashes between blacks and whites have gone unnoticed as time erases memori...

South African Victimization and the Novels of Nadine Gordimer

In twelve pages this paper critically analyzes the novels of Nadine Gordimer in a consideration of characterization and the victim...

African Colonialism

A. Abu Boahen gives an unusual view of the colonial experience in African Perspective on Colonialism. Most books take the European...

Role of African Nationalists

In a research paper consisting of five pages the internal skirmishes and lacking international support are just two of the problem...

Resistance to Colonialism by Africans

In this paper consisting of five pages a unique perspective on African colonialism and the resistance to Western influence by the ...

Summary of Africa And Africans In The Making Of The Atlantic World 1400-1800 by John Thornton

go against historical accounts of the African arrival by asserting that they did not come to the Americas as a result of slavery; ...