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Colonization of Africa
DIR By: guest5
Date: November 15, 2020, 2:11 am
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Colonization of Africa
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> Let's look at a map and see a summary of the different phases
of exploration, conquests and colonization of African
territories by European powers, beginning from the mid-15th
century.
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HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fbb7nbIUUEM
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Re: Colonization of Africa
DIR By: guest5
Date: November 18, 2020, 5:50 pm
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Slavery and Suffering - History Of Africa with Zeinab Badawi
[Episode 16]
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> Much is known about enslaved Africans once they arrived in the
Americas and Europe, but in this episode Zeinab Badawi looks at
the impact on Africa itself of one of the most evil chapters in
human history: the trans Atlantic slave trade. She travels to
several countries to see how, where and why this trade began in
Cabo Verde in 1510. She meets a man on the Senegalese island of
Goree who for 35 years has been relating the story of slavery
to thousands of visitors. And leading academics tackle the
controversial subject of why some Africans helped sell their
fellow Africans into slavery.
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HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajI8lkYdmAk
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Re: Colonization of Africa
DIR By: guest5
Date: December 9, 2020, 1:12 pm
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Colonization Fueled Ebola: Dr. Paul Farmer on “Fevers, Feuds &
Diamonds” & Lessons from West Africa
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> We continue our conversation with medical anthropologist Dr.
Paul Farmer, whose new book, “Fevers, Feuds, and Diamonds,”
tells the story of his efforts to fight Ebola in 2014 and how
the history of slavery, colonialism and violence in West Africa
exacerbated the outbreak. “Care for Ebola is not rocket
science,” says Dr. Farmer, who notes that doctors know how to
treat sick patients. But the public health response was
overwhelmingly focused not on care but containment, Dr. Farmer
says, which “generated very painful echoes from colonial rule.”
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HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bFnfKNa7q0o
A few examples of western rappers:
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De Beers Gives In And Begins Selling Lab Made Diamonds
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> The allure, scarcity, and high cost of diamonds has largely
been controlled by De Beers. ... De Beers is known for largely
controlling the $80 billion diamond industry, creating
artificial scarcity in diamonds to drive up prices and control
the sense of a diamond's allure.
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De Beers
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> The company was founded in 1888 by British businessman Cecil
Rhodes, who was financed by the South African diamond magnate
Alfred Beit and the London-based N M Rothschild & Sons
bank.[9][10] In 1926, Ernest Oppenheimer, a German immigrant to
Britain and later South Africa who had earlier founded mining
company Anglo American with American financier J.P. Morgan,[11]
was elected to the board of De Beers.[12] He built and
consolidated the company's global monopoly over the diamond
industry until his death in 1957. During this time, he was
involved in a number of controversies, including price fixing
and trust behaviour, and was accused of not releasing industrial
diamonds for the U.S. war effort during World War II.[13][14]
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HTML https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Beers
Interestingly, western rappers made me despise hip-hop culture
for the most part just by the imbecilic degenerate behavior of
westerners and western rappers themselves. Every time I see a
picture of one the first words that come to mind are sucker,
idiot, and fool.
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Re: Colonization of Africa
DIR By: guest5
Date: January 17, 2021, 1:55 pm
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'Colonialism had never really ended': my life in the shadow of
Cecil Rhodes
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> After growing up in a Zimbabwe convulsed by the legacy of
colonialism, when I got to Oxford I realised how many British
people still failed to see how empire had shaped lives like mine
– as well as their own
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> It was true that Rhodes was a racist and imperialist who built
a society based on racism and exploitation. But Mugabe used this
history to deny the corruption of his own regime. He made white
farmers the scapegoats for the country’s economic problems and
tarred the opposition as un-African. He argued that the values
his political rivals stood for were a cover for neoliberal
policies that, like colonialism before them, would only serve to
exploit Zimbabwe on behalf of the west. Real nationalism, Mugabe
said, was about finishing the anti-colonial liberation struggle
by taking back the land.
>
> In 2000, bolstered by Mugabe’s rhetoric, Black war veterans
began occupying commercial farmland owned by white people. The
occupations spread widely across the country. They were
sponsored by the ruling party, while partisan militias carried
out evictions on the ground. In less than five years, the number
of white farmers actually farming the land dwindled from about
4,500 to under 500, while as many as 200,000 Black farm workers
lost their jobs, and often with them their homes. About 10 white
farmers were killed by militias, while the number of black farm
workers killed by the same militias was just under 200, with
many thousands more suffering violent assaults.
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> The foreign and white media soon introduced its own
distortions into the crisis, portraying the occupations as a
racially motivated attack against white people, and not as a
violent political uprising rooted in the complex history of
colonialism. At home, my father praised Mugabe and lambasted
western powers as hypocrites who preached democracy but
practised imperialism. He had no patience for the opposition
party, whose members he saw as stooges serving the interests of
white capitalists in Zimbabwe and Britain. I later came to see
the land seizures as acts of political and economic grievance
that answered directly to Zimbabwe’s colonial history, and to
feel that, in many ways, Mugabe and my father were right: real
emancipation from that history could not be accomplished if
white people still owned more than their share of the land.
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Real emancipation from Western colonial history cannot be
accomplished as long as "white" identity exists.
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Portuguese Colonialism in 'Africa': Jesuits — and the Story of
the African Samurai in Japan
DIR By: guest5
Date: February 17, 2021, 12:18 am
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Yasuke: Story of the African Samurai in Japan
HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0RZaHgXEhJ4
When the narrator of the above video speaks of Jesuits and
Christianity he more specifically is referring to
Judeo-Greco-Christian culture.
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> In Spanish America, Jesuits became agents of colonization as
mission culture integrated frontier communities into the Spanish
imperial system
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Portuguese Colonialism
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> The kingdom of Portugal lasted nearly eight centuries, from
the Middle Ages, to the Renaissance, to the Age of Discovery,
and into the 20th century. Its location on the hilly Iberian
peninsula was not known for fertile soil, leading both Spain and
Portugal to become seafaring countries that dominated the world
by ship. Both countries established settlements along their
trade routes that disseminated their architecture on the shores
of Africa, Madeira, the Americas, and Asia. The kingdom soon
reaped the benefits of colonization by enslaving Africans and
native peoples to mine its territories for natural resources,
including gold, precious stones, wood, ivory, silver, ebony.
This influx of wealth to Portugal led to expansive building
programs around the world. Though, after extravagant spending
campaigns and revolutions, the royals were in exile for the
final time in 1910. Today, Portugal is a semi-presidential
republic that continues to illustrate the effects of
colonization with the presence of Creole as the second most
spoken language in Lisbon. The language was brought to Lisbon by
Africans migrating to the city following unrest on the continent
of Africa.
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Re: Colonization of Africa
DIR By: guest5
Date: March 6, 2021, 1:45 am
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Africa's French Problem
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> We break down France's legacy of colonialism, political,
economic, and military hegemony over Africa.
>
> Correction: Ghana is a former British colony, not French.
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Re: Colonization of Africa
DIR By: guest5
Date: March 10, 2021, 6:04 pm
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How Portugal silenced ‘centuries of violence and trauma’
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> There has been little acknowledgment of Portugal’s role in the
transatlantic slave trade – until now.
> A map published for Portugal’s 1934 Colonial Exhibition, held
in Porto. It is entitled: “Portugal is not a small country” and
shows the size of Portugal’s empire at the time as if
super-imposed over a map of Europe [Courtesy of Paulo Moreira]
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Re: Is Counterculture Still Alive?
DIR By: guest5
Date: March 18, 2021, 5:00 pm
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Senegal's Cheerful Reawakening From Colonialism |African
Renaissance | TRACKS
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> In Senegal, Afua Hirsch discovers how exuberant hip-hop, film
and fashion scenes have fed off colonial history, and she traces
the story of a poet who became the father of Senegalese
independence.
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HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_LtUN186uzc
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> Renaissance is a French word meaning “rebirth.” It refers to a
period in European civilization that was marked by a revival of
Classical learning and wisdom.
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HTML https://www.britannica.com/event/Renaissance
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> Etymology
> Afri was a Latin name used to refer to the inhabitants of
then-known northern Africa to the west of the Nile river, and in
its widest sense referred to all lands south of the
Mediterranean (Ancient Libya).[24][25] This name seems to have
originally referred to a native Libyan tribe, an ancestor of
modern Berbers; see Terence for discussion. The name had usually
been connected with the Phoenician word ʿafar meaning
"dust",[26] but a 1981 hypothesis[27] has asserted that it stems
from the Berber word ifri (plural ifran) meaning "cave", in
reference to cave dwellers.[28] The same word[28] may be found
in the name of the Banu Ifran from Algeria and Tripolitania, a
Berber tribe originally from Yafran (also known as Ifrane) in
northwestern Libya,[29] as well as the city of Ifrane in
Morocco.
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The real Africa:
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> Under Roman rule, Carthage became the capital of the province
it then named Africa Proconsularis, following its defeat of the
Carthaginians in the Third Punic War in 146 BC, which also
included the coastal part of modern Libya.[30] The Latin suffix
-ica can sometimes be used to denote a land (e.g., in Celtica
from Celtae, as used by Julius Caesar). The later Muslim region
of Ifriqiya, following its conquest of the Byzantine (Eastern
Roman) Empire's Exarchatus Africae, also preserved a form of the
name.
>
> According to the Romans, Africa lies to the west of Egypt,
while "Asia" was used to refer to Anatolia and lands to the
east. A definite line was drawn between the two continents by
the geographer Ptolemy (85–165 AD), indicating Alexandria along
the Prime Meridian and making the isthmus of Suez and the Red
Sea the boundary between Asia and Africa. As Europeans came to
understand the real extent of the continent, the idea of
"Africa" expanded with their knowledge.
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One cannot "reawaken" from colonialism yet still use colonial
terminology to describe oneself.
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Re: Colonization of Africa
DIR By: guest5
Date: April 12, 2021, 8:40 pm
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Why South Africa is still so segregated
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> How centuries of division built one of the most unequal
countries on earth.
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Re: Colonization of Africa
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: April 24, 2021, 10:40 pm
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NEVER FORGIVE. NEVER FORGET.
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