Achebe's “Things Fall Apart” and Ngugi's “The River Between”
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A 10 page overview of these two works of African literature. A review of character development is provided as is a discussion of the interweaving of public and private themes which arise at the hands of colonization in each of these great works. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
Filename: PPafLit2.rtf

Acme Paperclips -- Offices in the United States and Uganda
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This 7 page report discusses the fact that working conditions for people in the United States and people in Africa are literally and figuratively a world apart. Not only are the workers of Uganda most familiar with agricultural work and agricultural related production (the countries leading export is coffee), they are generally unaware that their government has or should have any obligation in terms of providing them with a safe working environment. Using the example of the fictious “Acme Paperclip” company, issues of worker safety and protection are discussed. Bibliography lists 7 sources.
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Adam Hochschild's King Leopold's Ghost
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5 pages in length. Adam Hochschild's King Leopold's Ghost tells of Leopold's search for a colony to claim as Belgium's own. His fear was that all the other European nations would leave nothing for himself or his people in their overtaking of the Africa and Asia areas. Bibliography lists 1 source.
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Adam Hochschild/King Leopold's Ghost
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A 5 page essay that summarizes the principal points from Hochschild's book King Leopold's Ghost, which chronicles the atrocities implemented by the Belgium monarch against the Congolese people. In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, King Leopold II of Belgium carved out a personal kingdom in the African Congo and built an enormous personal fortune, which cost, at least, 10 million African lives. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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Africa and AIDS:
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This 10 page paper discusses the startling issue of AIDS in Africa. Furthermore, this paper presents the scope of the problem as well as trends and methods of managing the problem. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
Filename: GSAfaids.rtf

Africa and International Systems;
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This 24 page paper considers the international relations and trading position of Africa with its unique problems and developments and the way that these are manifesting themselves political as well as economically in both the domestic policies as well as international relations. The paper includes consideration of the economic, political and social problems and uses country case studies of Kenya and Zimbabwe to illustrate many of the points raised. The bibliography cites 19 sources
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Africa and Western Influence
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This 6 page paper explores the question as to whether or not Western education and economic development in Africa was designed to help Africans or exploit them. The answer is determined from a portion of a book called Historical Problems of Imperial Africa. Both sides of the issue are discussed. No additional sources cited.
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Africa Essay Questions
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A 5 page paper answering various questions about the continent of Africa; the influence of Islam and Christianity on the indigenous peoples; and links between present-day difficulties and colonial-era divisions. The questions address religion, female genital mutilation, geographical influences on migration patterns and other topics. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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Africa Under Apartheid
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5 pages. With the decline of agricultural price in the 1870’s and 1880’s that led to lower-class southern whites to join farmers throughout the country in populist political movements, political leaders sought to unite the racial lines in order to effect more votes from the black voters. This did not work and the populist revolt died away after 1896. This then refutes some of what society was attempting to resolve. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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African Civilizations
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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 Christianity and that, in reality, Africans civilizations produced great scholarship and art. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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African Globalization in Appiah and Diawara
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A five page paper looking at the challenge of the modernization of Africa as discussed by Manthia Diawara in his "In Search of Africa" and Kwarme Anthony Appiah in "In My Father's House." The paper concludes that while Diawara advocates Westernizing the African continent and its people, Appiah celebrates its uniquely African voice. No additional sources.
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African Ideology and Culture: Past and Continued Impacts on African Americans
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A 6 page discussion of the continued importance of Africa culture and ideology to African Americans. To these people Africa was, and will continue to be a continual theme in their culture and even their perceptions of themselves. It was the underlying commonality of their Africanness which pulled African Americans one of the most turbulent times of their history, the time of slavery. It is this same underlying theme of Africanness which continues to consolidate the African Americans and which allows them to resist total assimilation into white culture. Some suggests that the creation of Africa-centered schools would be a positive factor in the welfare of contemporary Black Americans. While the ideology and culture of Africa is something which should continue to be stressed into our future, however, the segregation of black from white in the form of Africa-centered schools would only be a regress into our past. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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