All Across Africa Ann Jones Chapter Summary

Essays should have organized thoughts, an interesting writing style, and most importantly get the attention of the reader. The essay, “African Women in Colonial Society,” by Carol Berkin was no exception. The claims were well thought out and clear, and the essay definitely hooked readers in with an anecdote that led into the story quite fittingly. She had three noticeable claims that were major that she talks about in the essay, and that is the struggles of African women, moreso compared to that of a man’s, the silver linings that the women found, and finally the unity of the Africans through common languages and religion.

While reading Dancing Skeletons: Life and Death in West Africa by Katherine Dettwyler, all you can think is “what if I had had to live in a culture like this?” Katherine Dettwyler is an ethnography that primarily study how children feeding and weaning customs, and continuing malnutrition directs to a higher likely hood of children being more likely to perish from life threatening childhood illnesses, for example: malaria, tetanus, diarrhea, diphtheria, kwashiorkor, marasmus and measles in Mali. She also talked about a wider array of topics ranging from culture shock, breastfeeding, population control, child care, female circumcision, women’s role in the house and communities, and the dangers of fieldwork. This novel really makes you think about what it would be like to live in a world without common knowledge of disease and how to prevent them. It also really gets your attention about the different culture customs, for example female circumcision, I feel like that would be a culture shock to any American.

The relationship with his parents was disconnected, making church and religion help Jones receive the “emotional warmth and acceptance he never got” (Chidester 2). Neighbors and residents of the town stated they remembered Jones at a young age preaching to children, taking stray animals into the garage for healing and preaching events, and even baptizing children in the river. Jones disagreed with many pastors because he

In his essay titled “Remembering My Childhood on the Continent of Africa” (2000), David Sedaris suggests that by envying your childhood “Hugh” one may lead to having a life full of bitterness and regret in the past far from satisfaction and comfort in the future. Sedaris develops this thesis by comparing the exotic life to the ordinary American life, and contrasting the jealous privileged child with the unfortunate fascinating child. The author writes this essay in order to construct the idea that although one believes they have reached rock bottom, they should open their eyes to realize the positive in their life considering that another may be placed in worse living scenario. Using a humorous tone, the author seems to direct this essay toward

Focusing on micro examples in order to explain a macro concept is the basis of what Donald Wright wanted to do with his book “The World and a Very Small Place in Africa”. In this text, Wright explores the concept of globalization in the small country of Niumi, a country in West Africa with the Gambia river flowing through it’s land. With it’s position in Northern West Africa, Niumi was a major part in the expansion of Europeans for a great part of world history. This expansion impacted the civilization of Niumi during the European Colonial era, and after the colonial era. Globalization, a major theme in our lectures, was a controlling theme and major concept Mr. Wright discusses throughout this book. His micro connection with Niumi & globalization can apply to other

“Ghana’s history is a metaphor for what occurred in the immediate aftermath of independence in Africa,” is a quote by Kofi Awoonor, Ghana’s leading literary figure and one of Africa’s most acclaimed authors. Three of his poems illustrate the hardships and trials that the Africans faced after their claim of independence from Britain. As said by Awoonor himself, “...high hopes were crushed by the greed, corruption, and lust for power…”. The author uses multiple literary devices as a way to emphasize the adversities they faced. Kofi Awoonor symbolizes the downfall of Ghana after independence through the use of theme, mood, and symbolism in his Three Poems.

As Jack and Annie walk home from the grocery store, they notice an animal that looks like a small deer. When they follow it, the deer leads them to the magic tree house. In the tree house, Morgan le Fay, an enchantress, gives them their third riddle to solve and a book entitled The Plains of Africa. Using the magic of the tree house, Annie wishes they could go to Africa, and the tree house transports the children there.

During 300 C.E to 1200 C.E, the Kingdom of Ghana was far from the typical preconceived notions made about Africa. Many have observed Africa as a dark, jungle full, and unknown continent. In reality, Africa has been developing as a beautiful and modern continent for as long as historians have traced back. The majority of Africa was split into empires of different regions that flourished with multinational structures. Africa encompassed diverse polities and populations through its empires, which ultimately led to what it is today.

With a close-knit population never teetering over 400, a resident could barely sneeze without the entire village knowing within a matter of hours. This intimate knowledge of ones neighbors for the most part reassured the people of their safety - it was a seemingly picturesque place, carved upright and deeply rooted in moral principle. But like most villages accustomed to their solitude, an underlying distrust was present in the face of any outsider.

During the 1800s western society began to take an interest in creating political emprise all around the world. With this in mind, many European nations started looking at Africa. In 1880s only 10 percent of Africa was controlled by some European nation. Some of the 10 percent included the French who were in control of Algiers, Portuguese in parts of western Africa and British and Dutch colonies in South Africa. However that small percentage quickly grow with European nations started to gain control of almost all of Africa. By the 1900 European countries, control the majority of African

The African Queen is an exciting film set during World War I. The movie, directed by John Huston, was released in 1951. Humphrey Bogart and Katharine Hepburn portrayed the two leading roles of Mr. Allnut and Rose. The movie revolves around two acquaintances that are forced to travel on a boat to escape German arms. Rose turns the trip into a revenge plot against the Germans for destroying her family and villages. Although Mr. Allnut is not too keen on the idea, he proceeds with the plan in hopes that she will change her mind. The two grow bitter towards one another, but when the going gets tough, they are forced to rely on each other for support. This film uses the hardships and effects of the war to form their relationship on trust and love.

The Author, Shirley Jackson describes a fictional story, "The Lottery", about a little town and their traditions. The village looks like a normal and beautiful town, where the people are hard workers and friendly person. The town is a middle class town, where kids usually attend school, women are stay in home wives, and men's usually work on farms. Although the town looks like an ordinary village, is not the same on June 27th.

“African Perspectives on Colonialism” is a book written by A. Adu Boahen. This book classifies the African responses to European colonialism in the 19th century. Boahen begins with the status of Africa in the last quarter of the 19th century and follows through the first years of African independence. This book deals with a twenty year time period between 1880 and 1900. Boahen talks about when Africa was seized and occupied by the Imperial Powers of Europe. Eurocentric points of view dominated the study of this era but Boahen gives us the African perspective. There are always two sides of the story and Boehen tells us the side less talked about informing us of what he knows.

The true genius of The Story of an African Farm is not in the unusual way it is constructed, although critic Patricia Murphy praises author Olive Schreiner's non-linear, feminine time in the novel and the ways cyclical time influences the story's development. Neither does the novel's true achievement lie in its artistic allegories, though Schreiner is commended for her mythological uses of South Africa's landscape (Marquard, 294), and for the meaningful "Hunter Tale" told by Waldo's stranger in the novel's center ("Politics of Power," 585). The most remarkable, complex aspect of the work has to be the way that it attempts to define gender norms for women, enlarging their potential role in society to equal the scope of a man's station. This facet of Schreiner's best-known book is the reason that she has become famous as, "a feminist who hated being a woman" (Showalter, 195), and the reason that African Farm has endured as an early feminist manifesto.

Modern African states have several problems ranging from corruption, to armed conflict, to stunted structural development. The effects of colonialism have been offered as a starting point for much of the analysis on African states, but the question of why African states are particularly dysfunctional needs to be examined, given the extent to which they have lagged behind other former European colonies in many aspects. In the first section, I will consider the problems with African states from the level of the state. That is, the nature of the states' inceptions and the underlying flaws may explain some of the issues that have been associated with African states today. Next I examine the development of, or lack of, civil