Academic papers on Africa

Memmi's 'The Colonizer and Colonized'
A 5 page paper that considers the historical, cultural, social and political roles of the colonized and the colonizer in Northern Africa. This paper provides a comparison between Memmi's work and two other authors, who reflect on the status of...
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Camara Laye's 'The Dark Child' / An Autobiographical Look At Africa
A 5 page essay on this book which examines traditional tribal life in Africa.
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Dancing Skeletons : A Comparison of the Culture in Mali and the United States
A 5 page paper which discusses the book 'Dancing Skeletons: Life and Death in West Africa' by Katherine Dettwyler, and compares the cultural lifestyle of the people in Mali with that of the people in the United States. While the severity of the...
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African Music-Ancient and Modern at the Same Time
This 8 page report discusses the many varieties and flavors of African music from the traditional to the contemporary. African music is singularly unique in that no single description can describe it all. One aspect of commonality between all...
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African Civilizations
A 5 page research paper that discusses the lost glories of African civilization. The writer argues that Europeans had to construct the myth that Africans were uncivilized savages in order to justify the African slave trade with the tenets of...
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Speech and Writing in Sembene and Laye
A 1 page paper looking at the opposition of the oral tradition versus the written word in the third-world African countries. The two novels examined are Camara Laye's 'L'Enfant Noir' (The Dark Child) and Ousmanne Sembene's 'God's Bits of Wood.'...
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Ancient Egyptian Architecture
2 pages worth of notes and discussion about temples and various structures in Egypt nearly 4,000 years old. No Bibliography.
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Culture & Heritage Essays
12 pages containing three brief essays and numerous short answers about African culture and heritage. Keywords defined and discussed include : Bantus, Nilotics, Homo Africanus, Islam, Nubians, Racism, Black Nationalism, Oscar Micheaux (early Black...
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Creation Stories (Myths)
A 10 page paper which compares an contrasts the creation stories (myths) of such civilizations as Egypt, Mesopotamia, China, Greco-Roman, North American Indian (Aztec and Mayan) and Western. Bibliography lists 11 sources.
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African Slave Trade / 3 Views
A 5 page analysis of three articles on the origins of slavery. Eric Williams, Winthrop D. Jordan and David Brion Davis offer three contrasting views on the origins of slavery and how slavery interacted with the development of racism. While each...
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John Thornton's 'Africa And Africans In The Making Of The Atlantic World 1400-1800 / Summary
6 pages in length. John Thornton's 'Africa And Africans in the Making of the Atlantic World 1400-1800' is instrumental in demonstrating the significant impact Africans had upon the Atlantic world's cultural development as a result of their trek to...
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African Resistance to Colonialism
In 5 pages the author discusses the African resistance to colonialism and gives the reader another perspective of the colonization of Africa by the Europeans and the Western influence Africa faced. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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African Nationalists / Role
A 5 page research paper on the problems facing African nationalists such as internal conflicts and lack of international support. The writer argues for international support of this emerging organization. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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Toni Morrison/Beloved
A 15 page analysis of the 1988 Pulitzer Prize winning book, Beloved, by Toni Morrison. Unlike traditional narrative techniques, there is no attempt in Beloved to deliver a chronological retelling of the protagonist's life as a slave. Rather...
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African-American Literature: Singing The People's Song
A five-page critical analysis on the state of African-American literature, with an emphasis on poetry. Includes an overview of black poetry from Phillis Wheatley through James Weldon Jonson, Langston Hughes and Maya Angelou to the cutting-edge poets...
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