Cameroon

The development of West Africa illustrates the advancements made in several different ways. Based on document #6, the city of Timbuktu acquired an advanced commercial center. Merchants sold a large quantity of corn, cattle, milk, and other dairy products. The city also consisted of knowledgeable artisans, including doctors, judges, and priests. It was a great Muslim educational center with more than 180 schools. The largest school taught more than 25,000 students! Timbuktu was a significant cultural and economic center with a wealthy population. The advancements made by this city show that the people of West Africa were educated, resourceful, and skilled in specific fields. Another accomplishment attained by West Africa was the development of griots. Based on document #2, a griot recounted history and “harbored secrets many

A developed government was another achievement to Africa before the arrival of the Europeans. Ghana, a strong African city, had military forces to maintain peace and

In the middle of Africa, in the northeast corner of the Belgian Congo, is the Ituri forest: home of the pygmies. The pygmies, known by themselves as the BaMbuti, are an ancient indigenous people whose presence has been felt all the way back into ancient Egyptian times. They are a group of hunter gatherers who live off the Ituri rain forest and have evolved to be swift but silent runners who at most reach heights of four and a half feet tall (14). Up until the nineteenth century not much was known about the BaMbuti peoples. Most regarded them as myth or, if they did accept that they existed, unhuman creatures roaming the forests (16). The pygmy people share their home in the Congo with many Negro tribes. The Negro tribes claim ownership of certain

The land by Lake Chad has been homed by people since 500 b.c. as stated by (http://www.infoplease.com/country/chad.html.) Over the thousands of years a trio of rival kingdoms rose. They were called, Kanem-Bornu, Baguirmi, and Ouaddai. This trio began to become united underneath the rule of the Sudanese ruler, Rabih al-Zubayr, around 1883 to 1893. After this the French turned all three kingdoms into a colony known as French Equatorial Africa which is part of Ubangi-Shari (now the Central African Republic) as shown on (http://www.infoplease.com/country/chad.html.)

In 1905, the administrative obligation for Chad became located under a governor wellknown stationed at Brazzaville in what is now Congo. Despite the fact that Chad joined the French colonies of Gabon, Oubangui-Charo, and Moyen Congo to shape the Federation of French Equatorial Africa (AEF) in 1910, it did now not have colonial repute till 1920. The northern place of Chad was occupied by the French in 1914. In 1959, the territory of French Equatorial Africa become dissolved, and 4 states--Gabon, the critical African Republic, Congo (Brazzaville), and Chad--became self-sustaining contributors of the French community. On August eleven, 1960 Chad have become an independent nation below its first president, Francois Tombalbaye.

The name was still Cameroes as people settle from Nigeria and different part of the world, as the Dutch establish connection with the rural chiefs and encourage slave trade, and after slave trade dies in 1858, Britain was never interested in Cameroes because they had their mind set to develop Nigeria. They are reluctant in making Cameroon a British protectorate. As A result of this hesitation the Germans “wins” the territory (Crawfurd 1996 - 2017). When the Germans settled, they changed the name from Cameroes to Kamerun, as they will pronounce it in their language. In 1886, The European colonial powers divide Africa between them at a Conference in Berlin. The Europeans agree to the new borders for the entire Africa continent. The borders are drawn without considering differences in culture and language for the inhabitants (Crawfurd 1996 - 2017). The Germans had used brutality and forced labor to develop Kamerun, at least if you go to Cameroon today, you will still find those structure. If you asked most Cameroonians today, they will testify to you that the Germans structure (railroad, schools and hospitals) are still the strongest in Cameroon, which agree to the fact that Cameroon development haven’t changed much since after the Germans left Cameroon. How did we get to a country whose development doest change is something interesting to find out?

The earliest people known to live in Togo were the Voltaic and the Kwa. In the 1800’s the Danish claimed the land but by 1884 it was now taken over as a German colony. After WW1 the land was then split and became half British, half French. The British part voted and decided to become part of Ghana but the French stayed as Togo. The country eventually gained independence on April 27 1960.

Once colonized by the Germans, the natives of Cameroon were used on plantations to farm for tropical produce. However, after World War I, Germany lost control of these colonies to the French and British, who divided up the territories into mandates, which later became South and North Cameroon respectively. By the 1950s, the French side of Cameroon became dissatisfied with colonial rule, and created the Union des Populations du Cameroun (UPC) which pushed for Cameroonian independence. After the UPC was outlawed by French officials in 1955 a bloody civil war began that lasted years after the country gained independence, which could have resulted in between tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands of deaths. In 1960, Cameroon finally gained independence to become the Republic of Cameroon; shortly after, in 1961, Southern Cameroon (previously under British rule) joined the Republic of Cameroon to become the Federal Republic of

Liberia is unlikely most Sub-Saharan countries, because Liberia has always been what is called a “free” or “independent” country. Liberia was created in 1822 by America for Free African-American Slaves. Liberia quickly became a republic by 1847 with the helping hand of American Politics. While Liberia was not colonized in the traditional sense. Liberia still displayed some problems that traditionally colonized countries suffered from. Liberia suffered the mirroring image problem, the two publics problem, and corruption.

Around the 19th century people began to explore the Congo more. The images that Homer and Aristotle portrayed through their writing begin to slowly fade. The Mbuti were no longer visualized as mythical and sub-human creatures, but as people (Suroviak, para. 9, 1996 a).

Forgotten. Isolated. Alone. The people of Uganda live in constant fear of one man who has torn their lives apart. Joseph Kony is the leader of a rebel group called the Lord’s Resistance Army. The LRA began in 1986 under the rule of Alice Lakwena and was called the Holy Spirit Movement. Lakwena was an Acholi and claimed to be a mystic fighting for the rights of her people (“Kony, Joseph”). She led a violent rebellion against the Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni and when she was exiled, Joseph Kony took over her movement. Kony formed a new group, with Lakwena’s followers, called the Lord’s Resistance Army (Johnson).  His goal was to create a new government based on the Ten Commandments and to purify the Acholi people. In order to achieve his

Many people think that they are very knowledgeable about the world, but many people probably have never heard of the African country, Burkina Faso. If you haven’t heard of it, maybe you’ve seen its flag. their has a red top and a green bottom with a small yellow star in the middle. It is a small landlocked country in the western region of Africa, south of the Sahara.

The Mbuti Pygmies in the Ituri forest in central Africa are foragers who use a combination of foraging, net hunters, and archers. Their kinship, social organization, and gender relations make them a unique band. Even though they live in the rainforest of equatorial Africa with hardly any possessions, they are happy, peaceful people. The pygmies are small people who are typically less than five feet tall.

This paper reflects the novel “Things Fall Apart” written by Chinua Achebe in 1958. Achebe gives an overview of pre-colonialism and post-colonialism on Igbo, detailing how local traditions and cultural practices can “fall apart” in some scenarios through some introduced, externally created hassles elevated because of colonization. The protagonist named Okonkwo mentioned in the story is a proof showing the lifestyle of the tribe. My main objective and focus is to lay emphasis on Africa specifically the Igbo society, before and after the arrival of the Europeans in Umuofia community; the results of their arrival concerning Igbo culture, thus leading to the clash of cultures between the two categories. I will also draw on post-colonialism with respect to globalization.

The Bantu migration is the dispersal of the Bantu people from the region of Cameroon and the Congo area. The word “Bantu” does not refer to the people of the African expansion, but rather the African languages belonging to the people in the Niger Congo. Cultural influences that occurred, due to the migration of the Bantu people, laid out the foundation for other Sub-Saharan societies. Historians have used the collective information found by archeologists and other historians in order to draw conclusions about the Bantu Migration. Linguistics, agriculture, and different types of art have been the evidence needed to identify the culture and the specific patterns of movement, during this period.