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Morally Justifying Mutilation of Female Genitals

sexuality of the individual. However, FGM is far more drastic and damaging than male circumcision. A more appropriate analogy woul...

Contemporary Bushmen

Bushmen. Deeming them "untamable" and a threat to livestock, settlers treated the Bushmen as vermin, killing them in great numbers...

How Europe Underdeveloped Africa by Walter Rodney

Major highlights of the authors views include such acknowledgments as early capitalist development, imperialism and colonialism, a...

East Africa and Malaria

rates with an Eastern African child dying of malaria every thirty seconds (World Health Organization, 2002) - an infestation that ...

South Africa and Tessco Telecommunications

bitter court battle broke out between Cell C and its rival, Nextcom" (Anonymous, 2002, p. 15). But now that Cell C is ensconced ...

South Africa Setting for a Fictional Story

some people spend their whole lives asserting that innate desire; it is this quest for improved social, economic, political and cu...

Europe and Africa Trade

one can grow or create, the idea of acquiring other objects, garments or foods is rather odd. Sustainable societies did exist prio...

Bhopal, India's Union Carbide Plant and Ethics

removed a pressure gauge that was attached to the tank, stuck a hose in the hole and filled the tank with water (Dykes and Graham,...

Unification and Africa

for resources is another of the more prominent reasons for conflict. Closely aligned with the issue of intertribal conflict is ...

South Africa, the United States, and Civil Rights

In 1954, for example, the landmark Supreme Court case of Brown v Topeka asserted that the separate but equal concept...

Kwakiutl Indians' Man Eating Bird 'Hokhokw' Mask

wings of the bird and during the ceremony, the dancers snap the beak closed with a loud clap (Kwakiutl Ceremonial Dance Mask, 2002...

Global Violent Crime in the 21st Century

of the marriage, it is not uncommon to find a significant percentage of the married female population enduring regular and constan...

Back to the Motherland

own lands(**). Reinsertion is accompanied, in most cases, with some form of aid which makes certain that the returning soldiers h...

21st Century World Order and Africa

our future. Many of the most important alliances which exist today date back to the end of World War II. While they have undergo...

Post 1984 Transitions in South Africa

of having been there. This autobiography is at once fascinating and unbelievable, torturous and sometimes funny; but underneath i...

Decolonization of the British Empire

well off as the invading country. This can be said of both India and Africa as recently as the 1940s and 1950s. The school of thou...

African and Women Victimized by Violence

to this new law for Muslims, introduced in the northern states of Nigeria" (The Oprah Winfrey Show, 2002). She was to be stoned to...

Developing Nations Problems and Solutions

the US and other countries with good financial positions generally ignore the advice (2003). Poor nations cannot do this as if th...

Colonial Missions in Sierra Leone

Sierra Leone, at the current site of the city of Freetown. The newly-freed slaves did not fare well in Freetown; they suffered fr...

The Impact of Trade Reforms and Globalization on Developing Countries

low income countries export only $100 per capita (Nugroho 2002). To bring this into more perspective, there are 1.1 billion people...

Sub Saharan Africa, HIV and AIDS

sufferer by weakening attacking the lymphocytes T Cells1. These are the cells that will usually those that fight infection, when t...

Freedom and Nonviolence

only an autocratic state (Yancy, 1995). Mandela, of course, first advocated nonviolence as a means of affecting change in...

Comparing Two Regional World Civilizations

differences. In respect to the Islamic and Asian societies that sprang up, these occurred largely by 1000 B.C. (Roberts, 1993). ...

Comparing Two Articles Regarding Africa and the AIDS Epidemic

population, but they are taking a hands-on approach to fighting "against the scourge" (Bayingana). According to Dr. Agnes Binagwa...

20th Century Development and Industrialized Countries' Impact

Part of the "umbrella of protection" that has been extended to lesser developed countries by the more industrialized countries of ...

Unique U.S. Southern State of Louisiana

has been proactive in respect to opposing racism at every turn. Going back to an earlier time, in the all white groups which did...

African Orphans Studies II

provide additional income. Environmentally, the water supply is inadequate and healthcare is of poor quality and also inaccessibl...

'The Vengeful Creditor' by Chinua Achebe and 'Town and Country Lovers' by Nadine Gordimer

into effect that proclaimed the white race as one that was better than all others, much more deserving of lifes benefits and privi...

Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart and No Longer at Ease

In six pages this paper examines the impact Westernization had on Africa as portrayed in these novels by Nigerian author Chinua Ac...

1948 to 1979 Law of Apartheid in South Africa

In seven pages this paper discusses the South Africa laws of apartheid that were enacted during that time period and include many ...