Great Zimbabwe : The City Of A Great City

     In Southern Africa, there were mineral discoveries in the 1860, 70, and 80’s. These discoveries had an enormous impact on Southern Africa. These discoveries lead to a “rush” of many fortune hunters and the establishment of the town of Kimberly, which grew quickly and soon became the largest urban society in the interior of Southern Africa. Soon the diamond industry was controlled by one monopolistic company. This was one negative effect of imperialism in Africa.

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).

The Great African Land Race: Expanding European Territory Since the 1500’s, Europeans have been utilizing Africa as a center for trading and slavery. But in the early 1880’s, Africa became more of an interest to Europeans like King Leopold who wanted to expand their control over the world. The rush to conquer the mysterious continent began. Many factors caused Europeans to take part in land grabbing; however, the largest force driving Europeans towards imperialism in Africa was the desire for power through riches and natural African resources, which allowed Europeans to expand their economy and territory. Europeans quickly began to seize as much land as they could in Africa in order to win the great race for power.

The Kingdom Ghana in western Africa flourished. Ghana gained control of the salt-and-gold trade (Doc. 2). This was important because Gold was used as a currency,

The relationship between the geography of West Africa and the development of the Kingdom of Ghana go hand in hand. It was a great place for civilization because it flourished over time. The Kingdom of Ghana’s development was helped because of trade and wealth.

Africa, a majestic country, with abundance of natural resources and have one of the most advanced civilization that took place along the Nile river from 3,000BCE, was a peaceful continent. Thousands of tribes in Africa developed their own rich and distinctive languages, cultures, and religions from one another. Among all the tribes, “Zulu” was the most well-known tribe consisting 22% of the 45 million South Africans, formally established in the early 19th century in KwaZulu-Natal province, which is along the Indian Ocean; northeastern part of current Africa. Just like all the tribes, Zulu always thanked the mother nature and treated their environment with mindful care and dignity. The subtropical climate and fertile plains of KwaZulu-Natal province enabled Zulu members to cultivate bountiful crops and fruits. Every year, they celebrated numerous traditional festivals, but far most interesting one

New York Times contributor, Goodwell Nzou, in his article, “In Zimbabwe, We Don’t Cry for Lions,” he effectively claims that lions should be seen as a dangerous figure rather than a sympathetic controversy. Nzou supports this claim asserting that lions actually kill people and aren’t lovable creatures like the media presents them. He uses an example to appeal to pathos when stating, “In my village in Zimbabwe, surrounded by wildlife conservation areas, no lion has ever been beloved, or granted an affectionate nickname. They are objects of terror.” The use of this example allows the audience to understand and grasp on what the author’s first hand experience in the situation.

The Great Zimbabwe was a kingdom that was established in 1250. This kingdom was a culmination of various southern African kingdoms. While most settlements within the kingdom were dedicated to

South Africa has diamonds and gold. The Boers settled in Africa long before the British came there to colonize. The Boers were Dutch and come over to Africa in 1652. The Boers and the British did not agree with British policies including land and slaves. The Boers had no where to go but north. Which later became known as the Great Trek. When they were heading north they got in fierce battles with the Zulu and many other African groups as they were attempting to take land. The Boers didn't want outsiders coming in when gold was discovered. The Boers did t want any of the people coming to seeks fortune to gain any political rights. People tried to rebel against the Boers and failed. The British were blamed, and the tension was greater than ever.

Staten Island, New Jersey and Long Island (Osman, 2014). As a result, there was a great influx of Puerto Ricans and African Americans who arrived at the newly vacant neighborhoods in search of work, but ended up trapped in decaying dwellings and poverty. Determined city planners aimed to revitalize Brooklyn, specifically the Boerum Hill neighborhood, by replacing outdated, deteriorating Victorian housing with modern high-rises and creating open space and parks which would make the city greener and overall more appealing to middle-class taste. However, the Boerum Hill Association (BHA), a group of newly arriving middle-class homeowners referred to as ‘brownstoners’ composed of artists, lawyers and other white-collar workers protested this

There were also many sources of water in northern Africa, the most obvious being the Nile River, which the prosperous civilization ancient Egypt took advantage of. As you go farther south into Africa, the geological features change. As the desert fades, the vast jungle comes into play. Due to the scattered food supplies, the people living in the jungles of Africa were forced to be nomadic, navigating the jungle in search of harvestable food. With all the moving around, civilization could not develop to the fullest, as they had no time to settle down and work on the development of a city or village because of their constant moving around to

Robert Mugabe spent ten years in prison before assuming the presidency of Zimbabwe. Instead of learning from his time in prison, he brought all his poor habits of corruption to the country of Zimbabwe (“Zimbabwe’s” 1). During his powerful rule, Zimbabwe faced many different situations within his country. Within the first few years of Mugabe being president, Zimbabwe started to have some political and economical issues. Whether or not the issues are a direct correlation to Mugabe being president is unknown, but the timing is impeccable. Money was starting to disappear within the government causing an economic crisis, and Zimbabwe was having massive poverty and inflation increases. These issues led to the conspiracy of a corrupt government

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Many of the contemporary issues in South Africa can easily be associated with the apartheid laws which devastated the country. The people of South Africa struggle day by day to reverse “the most cruel, yet well-crafted,” horrific tactic “of social engineering.” The concept behind apartheid emerged in 1948 when the nationalist party took over government, and the all-white government enforced “racial segregation under a system of legislation” . The central issues stem from 50 years of apartheid include poverty, income inequality, land ownership rates and many other long term affects that still plague the brunt of the South African population while the small white minority still enjoy much of the wealth, most of the land and opportunities

Afternoon once again some more on Zimbabwe...DISCUSS THE RISE AND EXPANSION OF THE MUTAPA STATE. (NOV 2008)