Africa After The Sahara Desert

It is generally accepted by scholars and scientists today that Africa is the original home of man. One of the most tragic misconceptions of historical thought has been the belief that Black Africa had no history before European colonization. Whites foster the image of Africa as a barbarous and savage continent torn by tribal warfare for centuries. It was a common assumption of nineteenth-century European and American Whites - promoted by the deliberate cultivation of pseudoscientific racism - that Africans were inferior to Whites and were devoid of any trace of civilization or culture.

People of the early African kingdoms were able to create successful trade routes with Europe and Asia, become very wealthy from conquering and gaining land, and were able to have a strong central government. All of this was done before the Europeans had reached Africa. Trade flourished on the East African coast, especially when trading was established with India and Arabia. African kingdoms were prosperous, because of their success with not only trading but also with their ability to conquer land. A governmental structure is key to allowing any kingdom to thrive, and the African people were able to achieve this.

This was an interesting post that included several different elements about the effect geography had on the development of Africa. The key point about Africa is realizing how diverse it is in many different aspects. The continent has a wide variety of cultures, environments, and wildlife as you have mentioned. With these different environments, each culture had various elements that influenced how they were developed (Duiker and Spielvogel). As you mentioned, the cultures in North Africa were blocked off by the massive Sahara Desert. The cultures in that region had to adapt to find resources and make connections with other cultures across the continent. One of the most important resources that civilizations need is water. Before the

These contradictions suggest that Europeans had never seen a black man before, and was afraid of them. It is no surprise Europeans reacted the way they did for we tends to be more cautious around people we had never seen or met before until we get familiar with them. In a way, I believe the author was trying to imply that these two races were like yin and yang – yin the color of black was described as darkness/evil and yang the color of white was described as light. To support the above statement, the author talks about the first Africans that were transported to Virginia, who were described as ““a people of beastly living, without a God, law, religion”/their color allegedly made them “Devil incarnate”” (50) and was accused of man eating creature.

It is established that Africa is one of the largest continents, the motherland of slavery, and is rich in economic goods. Africa is also the home of Ghana, Sudan, Ethiopia and Egypt, but why is it only argued that Egyptians are not Africans? Egyptians today are categorized as Arabic or Islamic, but what happened to the African culture within Egypt? Scott Trafton author of “Egypt Land” argues that the American carelessness for Egypt was precisely affiliated to anxieties over race and race-based slavery. He presents how the obsession with ancient Egypt, in the mist of both black and white Americans was disclosed in a spectrum of often contradictory ways. It’s been said and proven that Egyptian had dark skin and cores hair but spoke another language.

The Christians believed that the Africans were dark due to the fact that they were sinners, so they were burned from hell as their punishment. Many Christians thought they were evil because of how dark they were, so many of the whites viewed the blacks completely different from them and they did not share any similarities with them. They viewed them as inferior to the whites since they never had complexion as the whites. They did not have ingenious manufactures, such as art and sciences. The blacks were considered rude, barbarous, and were associated with ugliness, compared to the whites. (27-28) Since the people from Africa were darker from them, they thought that their characteristic as a person, and their intelligence levels was also different

Hieroglyphs can be considered one of the oldest forms of literature; Egyptians developed this technology at around 4,000 BC. Reasons for creating hieroglyphs are art, and communication (Mattessich). Parallel to that, farming was another type of technology that was being developed along the north of Africa and the river Nile, by the upcoming kingdom of Africa. Nubia (modern day Sudan) also gave rise to another kind of technology in term of agriculture, the cattle herding, their location made it easy to feed animals because it was tropical and had lots of vegetation. Hunter gathers were living since the beginnings of times, so this is not a new developed technology but it is significant to say that the rest of Africa was occupied by them (Britton).

When I think of Sub-Saharan Africa I see the complete opposite of The United States. I think of poverty, no Internet & cell phones( no texting, social media), no malls/shopping centers. I think of villages and people having farms and growing crops. Africa is approximately 15 of earths land & even with one of the largest countries in the world, it is one of the lest developed countries. However, even though Africans economy is not where it is suppose to be, West Africa is becoming more developed & offers more economic opportunities than other parts of Africa. Many tribes are moving towards West Africa to start a better life for themselves & and their families. However Africa needs more infrastructure which includes; high speed highways, railroads

This raises the question: How is this possible? In order to understand the validity of the statement we must first understand our past. If anyone were to state that there is an African influence in Egyptian history most of us would not think to challenge this statement due to the close proximity of Egypt and Africa. When you take that into account, it would be hard to grasp the concept that there would be an African influence in America before Columbus due to the distance in between Africa and America. It is interesting to know that “the negroid element is well proven by the large Olmec stone mountains “(Sertima, 1976 p. 21), therefore we must take into account that there was an African influence in America before Columbus had arrived. For many of us this is a hard concept to grasp, after all it does go against everything we were taught in history class as a

Africa has many geographic features on its continent. One of the most important is the Sahara Desert because of its sheer size. The Sahara desert affected the development of Africa because of its climate and location. The Sahara Desert is the third largest desert in the world. It is located in the northern part of Africa and ranges from the Nile River to the Red Sea. The Sahara is about 3,000 miles long. Joseph L. Davis was the first European to discover the Sahara. The Sahara Desert is known very well for its size, however it has abnormal Climate.

The government of the world, including the people of Sahel are working towards improving the soil of the soil of the Sahel. The problem will not be easily solved because we are working against nature, so you never know what is going to happen. The environment of the Sahel desert has experienced many droughts, this makes it nearly impossible to become fertile again.

Have you ever lived in the sub-Sahara desert, in Africa? I am going to tell you about a time in my life that was very fun for me. From 2007 to 2008, I lived in Niamey, Niger, Africa. I was there because my mom was in the military and she was the U.S Defense Attache. We lived in a big house that always flooded when it rained We also had a car that had a TV screen in the back, so the kids could watch movies during the trips. Where we lived, there were a lot of poor people. We took two trips. One was a safari to park W, the other a car trip to Ghana.

Everything is not as it seems. In other words, “Don’t judge a book by its cover.” This message is applicable to racial discrimination and stereotypes. For example, from the 1200s to the 1600s, Europeans discriminated against Jews extensively. This was most prominent in Venice and England. Jews were forced to live on an island called the Ghetto in Venice and were cruelly oppressed throughout history in the Italian city.. In the 1200s, Jews were banned from England. Finally, they started to come back in the 1600s but had limitations because they were known for their high intelligence compared to the English, as well as in Venice. In Venice they were only allowed to be usurers, or loaners that demand high rates of interest, which is something

The world should be pulling their resources together because the way the drought is affecting the Eastern Africa’s people is killing them. Reasonable one can not live in conditions where there is minimal food and water. People need to get their basic needs to survive and Eastern Africa is far from the ideal place to do so due to drought. The Eastern Africa people have limited crops which are mostly failing due to lack of water, little cattle herds due to the hot conditions and poor ground to feed on ,while the rest of the world has the resources to provide large-scale relief (Stewart, 2011). This is a big issue because on a global scale we are letting Eastern Africa’s people suffer when there is no need of it. The drought in Eastern

It is easy to forget about the trials and tribulations of the physical world because we are constantly being distracted by the hustle and bustle of our daily lives. Between rising skyscrapers, expanding cities, and growing populations many forget about the ground they walk on and how their actions impact the long-term use of the land we capitalize on every day. In Africa, the physical environment has a huge impact on what plants and vegetation grow throughout the continent, affecting how its inhabitants live their daily lives. It is through Africa’s physical environment and climate variability that determines the continent’s diverse vegetation species and drives local economies.