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- 131: Gandhi: A Man with Virtues
- ... after Gandhi was admitted to the British bar, he returned to India and attempted to create a law practice in Bombay, which failed. Two years after his failure, and India firm with interests in South Africa hired him as a legal adviser to work in their office in Durban. Once Gandhi arrived in Durban he found himself being treated as a member of an inferior race. He was shocked at the denial of civil liberties and political rights to Indian immigrants to South Africa. He then “threw” himself into the struggle for basic rights for Indians. Gandhi stayed in South Africa for 20 years, being imprisoned many times. In 1896, after being attacked and beaten by white South Africans, Gandhi began to teach a method of “passive resistance,” to, the South African authorities. _Part of ...
- 132: Mahatma Gandhi
- ... he founded the Natal Indian Congress to fight for Indian’s rights and he used and perfected the tool of satyagraha (nonviolent resistance) in demanding and protecting the rights of the Indian community of South Africa. He would later use this tool in fighting the British for India’s independence. He started his first two ashrams in South Africa, one was named Phoenix and the other, Tolstoy. Men, women, and children lived at the Tolstoy Farm where they were schooled about fearlessness, self-reliance, self-denial, self-sacrifice, and suffering; and embracing poverty and ... his own garments and insisted that his followers do so, too. He disagreed with those who wanted India to become an industrial country. From 1893 to 1914 he worked for an Indian firm in South Africa as a lawyer. During these years Gandhi’s experiences of open, racial discrimination moved him into agitation. His interest soon turned to the problem of Indians who had come to South Africa as laborers. ...
- 133: Ebola 2
- In 1976, Ebola virus made it s first appearance in Zaire, Africa, causing the death of hundreds of people. The second outbreak occurred western Sudan, also in 1976. These were large outbreaks, resulting in more than 550 cases and 340 deaths. In 1979, Ebola mysteriously re-appeared ... the outbreak come from a combined effort of medical teams from the U.S. Center for disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the World Health Organization, and from other health organizations in Belgium, France, and South Africa. Since July 1, 1995, 233 deaths have been reported among the 293 cases, in Africa (Garrett 195). Since 1976, researchers have searched for an origin and cure of the virus. Scientist have carried out numerous studies and investigations. Therefore, we now know what the virus is capable of doing, ...
- 134: Stephen Bantu Biko
- Stephen Bantu Biko Stephen Biko is known internationally as the founder of the South African Students' Organization (SASO), and a leading force in the South Africa Black Consciousness movement. He fought against the separation between black and whites, called apartheid (the Afrikaans term for separateness). His childhood experiences and character, lead him to became a powerful leader. Steve Biko was born on December 18, 1946, in King William's Town, South Africa. He father was a clerk and his mother was a housemaid. Following the Sharpeville massacre in 1960, Biko was just 17 years old when he became a political activist. He started to become active when ... reporter, Donald Woods, and the black activist Stephen Biko. It shows the inequality that blacks go through everyday (Cry Freedom). His death shocked the nation and people internationally. This was a turning point for South Africa. None of the rest of the world would buy goods or trade with South Africa. The new prime minister was quick to change laws, because if he didn't act fast there could have ...
- 135: The Color Purple: Nettie
- ... which they could return to their homeland -- their roots. Nettie, like so many others, realized she had an advantage of having been born in a civilized and industrialized country. She left with the missionaries to Africa in order to help "the downtrodden people from whom they sprang." (137) The Color Purple has the similarity of gender discrimination with the United States and Africa and in addition the issue of racial “importance.” Leaving the United States, Nettie believed she was leaving behind not only racial discrimination, for in Africa they would be "black like the Africans themselves" (143), but also gender discrimination. Before meeting Samuel and Corrine, Nettie was under the impression that all colored people [men] wanted to keep women from learning. ...
- 136: The Impact of the Second Industrial Revolution on Europe
- ... of canals and railroads, and made safer by the new medical discoveries, however it was due to the need of raw materials that forced Europeans to look elsewhere. One of the places they looked was Africa. During the previous era of imperialism Africa was unconquerable by Europeans due to diseases like that of Malaria in which Europeans were susceptible to. This was the opposite of the other areas in which were targets of the first stage of imperialism like that of the Americas, where it was the natives whom where killed by European disease. The development of quinine opened up Africa. Quinine was a medical advancement in which protected Europeans from Malaria. Africa was very attractive to the Europeans due to its rich supply of raw materials. Africa and all it’s rich land was ...
- 137: The Ninth And Tenth Century Dynasties
- ... Dynasties THE FATIMIDS: The most stable of the successor dynasties founded in the ninth and tenth centuries was that of the Fatimids, a branch of Shi'is. The Fatimids won their first success in North Africa, where they established a rival caliphate at Raqqadah near Kairouan and, in 952, embarked on a period of expansion that within a few years took them to Egypt. For a time the Fatimids aspired to be rulers of the whole Islamic world, and their achievements were impressive. At their peak they ruled North Africa, the Red Sea coast, Yemen, Palestine, and parts of Syria. Fatimid merchants traded with Afghanistan and China and tried to divert some of Baghdad's Arabian Gulf shipping to the Red Sea. But the Fatimids ... but after he died in 680 the partisans of 'Ali resumed a complicated but persistent struggle that plagued the Umayyads at home for most of the next seventy years and in time spread into North Africa and Spain. For all that, the Umayyads, during the ninety years of their leadership, rarely shook off their empire's reputation as a mulk - that is, a worldly kingdom - and in the last years ...
- 138: The New Imperialism
- ... factors. The New Imperialism that took place in the late 1800's was influenced by two main factors, the Industrial Revolution and the development of technology in the West. The vast resources of Asia and Africa, impulsed the West to take over these two continents in the struggle to exploit them as much as possible for their own wealth, with the excuse of Westernization and its Supposed benefits. Western domination over Africa and Asia was fueled by the need of raw materials and resources for the industries that were developing in Europe. The west exploited these continents with the excuse they were civilizing them and their culture. A perfect example of this were the English in Africa, through the Royal Niger company, which supposedly in a treaty offered protection and money to the tribes of the Niger river delta for their land, which was rich in resources. These tribes couldn't ...
- 139: African Art
- The traditional art of Africa plays a major part in the African society. Most ceremonies and activities (such as singing, dancing, storytelling, ect.) can not function without visual art. It can also be used as an implement and insignia of ... achievement for African art. A majority of the sculptures are done in wood but are also made of metal, stone, terra-cotta, mud, beadwork, ivory, and other materials. It is found in many parts of Africa but mainly in western and central Africa. Many ancient rock paintings have been found in Southern and Eastern Africa. These paintings are believed to be attributed to the SAN (Bushman) people. Masks and fetishes are often used to scare off bad ...
- 140: Things Fall Apart
- ... of the social world. The categories in this social world were, us, the Europeans and them, the Africans. Achebe concludes Conrad s ignorance towards the natives by exclaiming, Heart of Darkness projects the image of Africa as the other world, a place where man s vaunted intelligence and ferment are finally mocked by triumphant bestiality (252). Additionally, Heart of Darkness was written, consciencely or unconsciencely, from a Colonialistic point of view ... while his ignorance of not completely granting the natives human status leads him to social categorization. In his criticism, C.P. Sarvan quoted Achebe by writing, Racism and the Heart of Darkness, Conrad sets up Africa as a foil to Europe, a place of negations in comparison with which Europe s own state of spiritual grace will be manifest. Africa is the other world (281). 6 Although, Achebe and Conrad were not the only writers of their time that used common themes, they surpassed the others by improving the technique through the use of ...
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