The West African Nation of Ghana

Different cultures, countries, religions, and community with various behaviors and rituals that guides their belief and action when a loved one pass away. Religious and spiritual belief, type of life after death, superstitious beliefs after death and beliefs towards the meaning of life are all based on tradition and death ritual.

Culture is one of the most relevant elements that can define not only a society but also a country’s cumulative beliefs and system. Often noted as the origins of a country, culture is definitive in the sense that it harbors all the elements that can provide justification on the traditions and norms set by the society for its members. More often than not, the society members follow norms in order to create a harmonious community, and the beliefs and the traditions serve as the poles or grounding rules for each member to follow. Culture is very dynamic in the way that it can change over a variety of foreign influences but what is permanent about it is that original elements about it often lingers with the influences, therefore making it multi-faceted and broad. More importantly, culture serves as an individual and unique trait each society has, and therefore sets it apart from other countries and other societies.

In this first-hand account, Blyden speaks directly to African American people encouraging them to embrace their Africa roots. He wants African Americans to feel a connection to Africa, as well as understand important information about Africa. In several places in this text he tries to dispel some myths that were commonly held in the 19th century, and even today. Myths like there was never any great society that existed in Africa, and Africa was completely uncivilized. However, even though Blyden dispelled many of these myths, he also played into them. He did this by stating that African Americans could go to Africa and help “furnish a development of civilization which this world has never seen” (201). He makes an argument that Africa is civilized, and

What organizations, ideologies, and leaders did Africans create and engage in the 20th century to promote and advance their liberation?

The inconsistencies in the implementation even partly contributed to the outbreak of the Second World War (xxx, xxx). The European powers mobilized their African subjects with propaganda vilifying the racial-supremacist ideology of the Fascist powers. This set-in motion a process in which “Fascist nationalism produced the opposed reality of anti-Fascism; and anti-Fascism became antiracism; and antiracism led in due course to an end of colonization” (Davidson, 1992). The result was the erasure of European colonial rule from large swathes of the African continent within a relatively short period of time (xxx, xxx). Consequently, this led to the development of a decolonized version of the self-determination concept. The decolonization version of self-determination was based on the following three principles: i) all dependent peoples are entitled to freedom; ii) the peoples so entitled are defined in terms of the existing colonial territories, each of which contains a nation; and iii) once such a people has come to independence, no residual right of self-determination remains with any group within it or cutting across its frontiers (Emerson 1964). This version of self-determination had numerous implications. The concerned entities often did not find it necessary to demonstrate effective legitimate authority to gain and

In Africa, there were achievements in the empires and their cities before the Europeans arrived and maintained control. In the Kingdom of Ghana they had characteristics of powerful nations today and made fortunes due to the gold and salt trade. In the city of Timbuktu they had great stories, and developed the center of Art. There are also many other things that Africa achieved in.

The reason Maafa is important is that upon the rediscovery of Africa’s history prior to its oppressive influence, it also shines light on the bad seeds which were planted, and that has led to the Africa’s underdevelopment and the distortions that these seeds have caused by the growth of these weeds becoming rooted in the institutions and the psyche that world has become accustomed to today. Maafa is focuses on tracing and removing these roots in the hopes of nourishing the growth of not just Africa’s mind-state, but the overall Worldview. This is significant because it assists in the restoration of

By going back to one’s roots, the future of developing countries resided in the “development of Africa is one of the most constructive and universally helpful missions” (Locke, 6). This direction was a form of modernization that was an improvement of relationships between African Americans and other races.

Over the centuries, the African people have endured many trials, obstacles, and tribulations. From the moment that they were kidnapped from their homeland, and had been savagely placed in the cargo holds on ships to be sold into slavery to the American people, the Africans (now known in the United States of America as African Americans or Black people) have journey far to achieve, as well as, accomplished what was thought to be the impossible. These things include but are not limited to, freedom, equality, independence, the right to vote, a fair education, a wider range of occupations to pursue, politics, but most of all, to live a better quality of life.

For what little history is taught about Africans institutionally and publically presently, it used as a tool to disempower people of African descent. To start present interpretations of African history denies the feats and accomplishments done by Africans as well as the roots from which all people come from. Presently history is made for people

In 1900, W.E.B Du Bois participated in the Pan-African Conference in London which didn’t have any immediate action but, it most certainly attracted a lot of attention. Over the next few decades, there were numerous Pan-African Congresses. According to “A Negro Nation Within the Nation” by Walter Rucker, it states, “after World War I, President Woodrow Wilson announced his Fourteen Points, which was the idea that nations deserve the right to autonomy and sovereignty” (Rucker 42). Just a year after President Wilson’s declaration, the First Pan-African Congress was arranged in Paris in 1919. This was a call for more independence for colonized Africa. Du Bois was responsible for writing a manifesto of the Congress, which became the first official statement that favors for an independent Africa. The most significant Pan-African Congress was the fifth congress which was set to meet in Manchester, England in 1945. Kwame Nkrumah was one of the delegates that attended the meeting and Du Bois was selected as the International President of this Fifth Pan African Congress and was universally recognized as the true father of the Pan-Africanist Movement (Rucker 44). This was the very time in which Europe had been vulnerable because of the Second World War. The fifth congress helped Kwame Nkrumah established a footing where he made various liberation movements and by 1957 Ghana

The black nationalism and transformationalism are two major ideologies or themes portrayed throughout the history of Africans. However, these two ideologies often appeared to be conflicting instead of complimenting each other. Even from the beginning, various organizations, people, and approaches were separated by these ideologies. In this section of We Shall Overcome: The Reconstruction, many great figures like Martin Luther King, Newton, Gary and various organizations explicitly conveyed how exactly these ideologies appeared as a conflict to each other. In other words, this section of the text specifically demonstrates how these ideologies intersected by the various people and organizations.

George Padmore in the political sense was an active member in the Communist party in the United States and on the European continent. In addition, Padmore, as mentioned earlier, was also involved in the African Nationalist circles. He was also an Advisor to Nkrumah where he played a major role in the elections that led to the independence of Ghana from British control in 1957, he further organised the first All African People’s Congress in 1958 in Ghana. Padmore supported African liberation and Unity. Pan-Africanism was being promoted not only in the Caribbean but also in Ghana with the works of Padmore. Ghana then reached a political peak in 1958 as their struggle for independence was presented as a model for other liberation struggles.

The histories of Ghana, Mali, and Songhai are not well documented. Much of what we know is a mixture of legend, stories and secondhand accounts. North Africa has small coastal areas, some savanna areas, but it is mostly made up of the sahara desert. It is a very dry and hot region. West Africa has some desert areas, wet and dry grasslands, small rainforest, and long rivers, like the Niger River. It has some vegetation areas, but it also has some dry and hot areas. According to legend, Ghana started when a foreigner named Dhinga had to kill a goblin, and marry the goblins pretty daughters. Their offspring became ancestors of the ruling Soninke clans. After he died, his son Dyabe defeated his brother and founded the empire of Ghana somewhere

Ghana, a nation on the West Coast of Africa, is a standout amongst the most flourishing vote based systems on the landmass. It has regularly been alluded to as an "island of peace" in a standout amongst the most disordered regions on the earth. The nation 's economy is ruled by agribusiness, which utilizes around 40 percent of the working populace. Ghana is one of the main exporters of cocoa on the planet. It is likewise a noteworthy exporter of wares, for example, gold and timber. Ghana has a few vacation spots, for example, the palaces. The vast majority of the significant global carriers fly into and from the universal air terminal in Accra. Household air travel is flourishing and the nation has an energetic media communications segment, with six phone administrators and a few network access suppliers. ("Ghana background," n.d.). The number of inhabitants in Ghana is separated into somewhere in the range of 75 ethnic gatherings. The assessed populace of Ghana in 2012 is 24,652,402 (females-51%, guys 49), giving the nation a general populace thickness of 78 people for each sq km (201 for every sq mi). The most thickly populated parts of the nation are the beach front zones, the Ashanti locale, and the two central urban communities, Accra and Kumasi. Around 70 percent of the aggregate populace lives in the southern portion of the nation. The most various people groups are the seaside Fanti, and the Ashanti, who live in focal Ghana, both of whom have a place with the