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Colonization of Africa
By: guest5 Date: November 15, 2020, 2:11 am
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Colonization of Africa
[quote]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.[/quote]
HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fbb7nbIUUEM
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Re: Colonization of Africa
By: guest5 Date: November 18, 2020, 5:50 pm
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Slavery and Suffering - History Of Africa with Zeinab Badawi
[Episode 16]
[quote]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.[/quote]
HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajI8lkYdmAk
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Re: Colonization of Africa
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
[quote]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.”[/quote]
HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bFnfKNa7q0o
A few examples of western rappers:
[img]
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De Beers Gives In And Begins Selling Lab Made Diamonds
[quote]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.[/quote]
HTML https://www.forbes.com/sites/trevornace/2018/05/30/de-beers-gives-in-and-begins-selling-lab-made-diamonds/?sh=6b45d2f04636
De Beers
[quote]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][/quote]
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
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
[quote]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 [/quote]
[quote]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.[/quote]
[quote]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.[/quote]
HTML https://www.theguardian.com/news/2021/jan/14/rhodes-must-fall-oxford-colonialism-zimbabwe-simukai-chigudu?utm_source=pocket-newtab
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 t
he African Samurai in Japan
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.
[quote]In Spanish America, Jesuits became agents of colonization
as mission culture integrated frontier communities into the
Spanish imperial system[/quote]
HTML https://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/view/document/obo-9780199730414/obo-9780199730414-0147.xml
Portuguese Colonialism
[quote]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.[/quote]
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Re: Colonization of Africa
By: guest5 Date: March 6, 2021, 1:45 am
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Africa's French Problem
[quote]We break down France's legacy of colonialism, political,
economic, and military hegemony over Africa.
Correction: Ghana is a former British colony, not
French.[/quote]
HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l5Lk3pv20SY
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Re: Colonization of Africa
By: guest5 Date: March 10, 2021, 6:04 pm
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How Portugal silenced ‘centuries of violence and trauma’
[quote]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][/quote]
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Re: Is Counterculture Still Alive?
By: guest5 Date: March 18, 2021, 5:00 pm
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Senegal's Cheerful Reawakening From Colonialism |[s]African
Renaissance[/s] | TRACKS
[quote]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.[/quote]
HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_LtUN186uzc
[quote]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.[/quote]
HTML https://www.britannica.com/event/Renaissance
[quote]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. [/quote]
The real Africa:
[quote]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. [/quote]
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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
By: guest5 Date: April 12, 2021, 8:40 pm
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Why South Africa is still so segregated
[quote]How centuries of division built one of the most unequal
countries on earth.[/quote]
HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVH7JewfgJg
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Re: Colonization of Africa
By: 90sRetroFan Date: April 24, 2021, 10:40 pm
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NEVER FORGIVE. NEVER FORGET.
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