African History Research Paper

There are many misconceptions that have been universally accepted mentioned in Curtis Keim’s book Mistaking Africa, many of which are based on biased and incorrect accounts and are extremely offensive. Three important myths are that Africa is a land of cannibals, it is backward and very uncivilized, and that it is one country where everyone and the climate are the same all over. These will be explained, refuted, and the detriment to the people of Africa will be discussed.

Like many other continents in the world Africa has a lot of differences in itself for example there are differences in geography ,language, politics, religion and other things in life due to Africa’s lack of political government over an extended period of time.

The history of West Africa has its inhabitant traces is almost 6000 years ancient, but the earliest human beings who came here first were almost 12000 BCE. The enhancement in the farming took place after the arrival of a modern ancestor in the fifth millennium. After making connections with other civilizations like Mediterranean ones, the development of iron industry took place in every use of daily life. The common or traditional business of trade for them consisted of cotton, leather, metals, gold against horses, clothes, copper, salt, etc. They were modifying their lifestyles and politics as more as they were coming closer to other communities of the world (Ajayi, 1970).

Boudless. (2014, Noverber 14). The platation Economy and Planter Class. Retrieved from U.S History Boundless: https://www.boundless.com/u-s-history/textbooks/boundless-u-s-history-textbook/slavery-and-reform-1820-1840-16/the-old-south-121/the-plantation-economy-and-the-planter-class-645-6993/

I do agree that hispanics and African American struggles are sort of similar. Some hispanics had to sneak across the border to get in our country for freedom. African Americans had to escape from the south to the north to get freedom in slavery days. Still today the police target blacks and Hispanics, so they put them in the same boat. They talk about the poverty of Blacks and Hispanics, and crime are in both neighborhoods. African Americans and Hispanic somehow find himself in some kind of rivalry. I do not know if this is because they both are struggling, and do not want to see one do better than the other one. I believe Hispanics and blacks need to get together , and stand against the stereotyping of their neighborhoods. They need to let

If I could study one subject in school that was offered it will be African-

The later generations of Africans had become slaves and abused physically and mentally because the 19th and 20th centuries made it okay to think of Africans as inferior beings compared to the Europeans. Still today, many African countries suffer because they didn’t have a chance to advance themselves from when Europeans came took the resources they needed and left. In countries like the United States of America, Africans were used as slaves till 1865 and even now hate crimes and racist remarks are happening to them even if it isn’t as frequent as before. Many hate crimes against African people now can be connected to the colonization of Africa because most of the racist beliefs and jokes started here when the Europeans deemed them as barbaric, childlike, and not very educated. This time period is also when the whole superior race belief started to come into view. Though much has changed and improved, like African people having rights, being able to choose careers they want, work for pay, vote and do anything other races can do there is much more room for improvement. Although not everyone in Africa is poor, they still have a lot that are and we can fix that by building more jobs and schools so that kids can get an education to move up in life. The Europeans going to Africa was not a very good thing to happen to African people because it left many countries to the problems that they face

Ohuoba’s “The Perception of Africa” shows how Africa has been stereotyped across America in ways including but not limited to: school textbooks, mass media, and news broadcasts. The essay expresses the continent of Africa as more than just poverty and clay roads seen on news broadcasts. Included in the essay was a short story of African native child that lives in the United States and studies about her continent in class. The child is baffled about all the perceptions of her homeland through her textbook and the children her class. Only the negative is studied and talked about rather than the good aspects of Africa. This demonstrates how one can be influenced to think something is worse than what it is.

Even though the areas closest to the equator are very hot the majority of Africa has a tropical climate. This is because the majority of the continent lies between the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn. These two tropics are equal distances north and south of the equator. In these tropical areas, the main crops are cacao from which chocolate is made. The rainforests also help to support animals such as gorillas and chimpanzees. Therefore, distance from the equator is a positive influence on this area's economy as cacao grows abundantly and brings in a lot of money for the farmers there. It is also easier to hunt fish and harvest timber in these areas giving more opportunities for survival to the people in these areas.

As Americans, we live in a society today that is controlled by the media, and we are sometimes blind-sided by it and what it informs us about other countries due to the fact that the media leaves a mass amount of information. Questions that will be challenged example, why is it so important to learn about other countries history when we don’t even know much of our own? Or why does the media have such an incredible impact on how we view other countries like Africa. Our school systems are set up to, limited to what needs to be taught, so that our generations coming up, will not be as uneducated also uninformed about what is going on in the world. Africa history is beautiful history and some may say that Africa is where all of our world history started.

The continent of Africa is mainly a vast plateau, separated by a few mountain ranges and some areas bordered by a narrow coastal plain(1). Each area of Africa is ever so diverse and striking. From the tall towering treetops of the Western and Central African rainforest, to the world's largest desert The Sahara in Northern Africa and even the world's longest river the Nile river in east Africa. Africa is a immense continent

African slavery played a huge part in our history. The African slave trade began in the early 1500ś and went up until the 1800ś, this time period is known as the Atlantic world. These many years of slavery resulted in 20 million slaves captured against their will.

Power is a tool constantly being used as narrative to persuade people. History shows how European presence has rape Africa’s inhabitants of their language, food, and traditions. African- American are being feed the narrative that Africa is a continents with several under-developed countries,

Does Africa have any history? Have the people of Africa made any significant contribution to humanity? With the knowledge that the birthplace of humankind is Africa (Sanz, 2012, p.6), it does make one wonder how a place that is home to millions of people was not able to establish a civilised system until the European interactions that started in the 16th century. In this piece, I will explain how the European imperialistic distortions of Africa’s past has led to this general belief that Africa has no history. I will also be using examples of some of the achievements of ancient Africa, to show the vital part they have played in the advancement of humanity and civilisation for thousands of years. Finally, I will be looking at the controversy surrounding the ancestral heritage of ancient Egypt, Kemet, and how this view has changed over time.

     Out of all of the continents, Africa is the most central. It is told that the first man was found in Africa, so with this, many feel that Africa is the birthplace of human culture. Within this continent, there are many different lifestyles, which are lived. Many blame the variety of lifestyles on western influence, but the truth is that different lifestyles began thousands of years before the west had influence on Africa. African’s