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Following the conclusion of World War II, the world began to see a ray of light. Six years of international turmoil culminated into the bombs at Hiroshima and Nagasaki, promptly followed by the Japanese surrender to the Allied Powers. The Western world enjoyed prosperity following the end of World War II, with America having the richest of gains. However, the future was not as bright for those outside of Western society. Many nations were under colonial rule by Western powers, and movements began

Dominique Johnson Professor John Oriji History 430 Yoruba Girl Dancing Part II Colonization Leads to Interlacing of Cultures Reading the second half of Yoruba Girl Dancing one thing I enjoyed most was the description of the many different cultures that Remi was forced to live amongst. These cultures included the European culture of the upper class Nigerian in Lagos, the culture of being at the private school, the working class British culture, the lifestyle of Germans who wanted well and

Danielle Patton Final Paper History 1500 to Present December 4th, 2014 When you look back through time at the history of decolonization, there are many names that come to mind, but two that should be focused on are Frantz Fanon and Mahatma Gandhi. Both of these men were strong advocates for anti-colonialism and nationalism. Their attitudes can be described by this quote from Frantz Fanon who said, “what matters is not to know the world but to change it.” They may have been active during different

how the haft of the tomahawk was broken or when it was thrown away (Morrison). The bloodline of the tomahawk is a fairly simple one, it was passed down mostly from father to son generation after generation. Its known bloodline followed from Antoine Cesaire Dagneaux DeQuindre to Francois Xavier DeQuindre to Antoine DeQuindre to James Baker Worley to Maurice Worley. Later while on his deathbed, Maurice donated the tomahawk to the Old Cathedral Museum in Vincennes, Indiana in 1976. (Morrison) The DeQuindre

The Tempest is a play written by William Shakespeare around 1610 toward the end of his career as a poet and playwright. The Tempest fits in the genre of tragicomedy. The genre blends aspects of tragedy and romance together which are depicted in a humorous way. The Tempest is set on an island where its location is unspecified. The play finds Prospero and Miranda, ousted former Duke of Milan and his daughter, living in exile on an island with Caliban, its lone native inhabitant. Change affects the

The movement originated in France and was called NEGRITUDE. However, its founders include Leon Gontran Damas of French Guiana and Aime Cesaire of Martinique. Rene Maran of Martinique won the Prix Goncourt (a French literary prize) with the novel Batouala (1921) which called for identification with black culture. In the Spanish - speaking Caribbean African themes were presented in a most

In Fanonian philosophy, decolonization is the rational reaction of colonization. So, those who would classify de-colonizers and their rhetoric “nativists” and “nativism,” should refer to the supporting quote from Fanon’s The Wretched of the Earth: “The argument the native chooses has been furnished by the settler…” (1968: 310). That “the native” “chooses” violence—self-defensive struggle—as a means toward the goal of “total liberation” should startle no one, least of all colonialists, capitalists

1. Ever wondered how nationalism and perspectives of people about nation can bring revolution in the society?, First of all nationalism can be taken as both positive and negative ways. For instance, being faithful to your country is acceptable but when you cross your limit in order to degrade another race, culture or to show that you are the dominant one, that’s when it becomes negative and delivers a wrong message among other people. Phases of nationalism kept on changing as the time passed in Europe

Pan Africanism, in its fundamental definition, implores the black population to pursue self-dignity and self-determination in bettering their situation and becoming equal to the majority population; W.E.B. Dubois and Marcus Garvey, while both active Pan-Africanists in theory, have different goals and perspectives on the ways in which the racial problems should be approached. The central differences between Dubois and Garvey lie in their adolescent upbringings, and permeate through adulthood to form

National Identity as a Postcolonial Theme in Wole Soyinka's Death and the King's Horseman Mona A. M. Ahamed The purpose of the present paper is to investigate Wole Soyinka's attempt to establish an identity for his postcolonial Nigeria as explored in his play Death and the King's Horseman. In fact, on studying this play, most of the researchers have focused on hybridity or the hybrid protagonist, mimicry or the mimic man as well as