Cultural Assessment: Western Africa Region West Africa is defined by a series of elongated countries that border the Atlantic Ocean, with an exception of Burkina Faso. The countries are small in area compared to the other parts of Africa. Western Africa makes up the largest population cluster in sub-Saharan Africa. West African culture is based on cash crops for export in many of the trade areas along the coast. Many of the West Africans have large incomes due to the sale of their crops across
muscles and the veins popped out on every part of his body and was slippery as fish in water. Okonkwo had great status among the Ibo people because he was an accomplished wrestler. When the Western people come to Okonkwo’s area the Ibo people’s lives are changed. The missionaries bring Christianity and other religious ideas. The religion is a forgiving one and many
Saman Alikhan Term Paper December 20, 2016 Part 1: At the moment, there is a lot of hope for the economic development of Africa and its government, its potential for western policy and globalization to promote growth on the continent. Globalization is the rise of political, cultural, and economical ties across international boundaries that way significantly on African countries, especially through the building of nonactive phases among its nations, by bringing down barriers in the areas
The country of Nigeria is located in Western Africa and borders the Gulf of Guinea between Benin on the west and Cameroon on the east. The country's land mass goes from the Gulf of Guinea in the south to the Sahel in the north. Comparatively, Nigeria is a little more than twice the size of California, or the size of California, Nevada, and Arizona combined. The capital of Nigeria is Abuja. Abuja replaced the former capital, Lagos in December 1991, because of its more central location, among other
Have you ever heard of developed countries and developing countries, or first world and third world countries? Just a basic overview before I go into detail, developed countries have a matured financial system, this includes the US and Canada, Western Europe, Australia, New Zealand, Japan and South Korea. Developing countries are emerging markets across Asia, Latin America and Africa. And undeveloped countries are mainly African nations which remain vastly poor, such as Mali and Somalia. Before
result of modernization, the original indigenous practices of the community begin to disappear, and are replaced by ideas from more developed Western countries. Culture is forever changing, and it adapts based on the changes happening within the people of the community and their environment. With modernization, ideas and beliefs that are practiced in Western societies are diffused across the world, setting the standard for behavior that should be commonly practiced in all societies. Modernization
city of Nigeria. But his father Okeke opposes and does not want the idea of their marriage. This short story is in the most famous compilation of short stories of Achebe which is the Girls at War and Other Stories (1972); set during the chaotic Nigerian Civil War in 1967-1970. For us to have more deep understanding of this story, let us first see a brief background of its author Chinua Achebe. Chinua Achebe came from the Igbo tribe, an ethnic group mostly living in the
federal republic of Nigeria is in the western part of Africa; its neighbors are chad and Cameroon in the east, Niger in the north while Benin is in the west. Until 1989 the capital of Nigeria was Lagos which is the biggest city in the country, but recently the government changed Abuja as the capital city of Nigeria. It is the thirty second largest country in the world and the 4th largest country in Africa, covering a total area of 923,768 sq. km. There was no country called Nigeria in 1914, but it comprised
British Colonizing in Nigeria In the late 19th and early 20th century, Europeans had raced to colonize the country Africa. Great Britain was the leaders at this time in colonizing the land filled with rich natural recourses. These recourses were considered a necessity to the industrialization of the world, specifically Nigeria. During this colonization that Great Britain was doing in their new land, you could imagine that the locals were not too happy about this. The British had no respect for
influencing and wonderful works of Chinua Achebe, the “Marriage is a Private Affair” which is about a man named Nnaemeka from the Igbo (Ibo) tribe who wants to marry an Ibibio woman, Nene, who lives in Lagos; a cosmopolitan and the capital city of Nigeria. But his father Okeke opposes and does not want the idea of their marriage. This short story is in the most famous compilation of short stories of Achebe which is the Girls at War and Other Stories (1972); set during the chaotic Nigerian Civil War