(think of patriotic celebrations like the Fourth of July in the United States) but it can also be very dangerous (think of the genocidal campaigns of the Nazis). Decolonization is the process by the which the formerly colonized world (places like India, Africa, the Middle-East ) have ...
How was the Kingdom of Aksum unique? How did Kenya become part of the British Empire? How did the Ottoman Empire maintain power? How did Islam influence the Ghana Empire? How did the Mali Empire build on the accomplishments of the Ghana Empire?
History and leadership The Philippines was colonized by Spain for almost 400 years and then by the United States of America for the next 50 years. It proclaimed its independence from Spain on 12 June 1898. As an American ally, it was occupied for four years by the Japanese Imperial Army ...
Colonized in 1787 by slaves freed and rescued from the slave trade arriving from England and other groups arriving from Nova Scotia (1792) and Jamaica (1800), Sierra Leone was controlled by the private Sierra Leone Company until 1808, when Britain made Sierra Leone a crown colony. Under ...
Swahili was seen as a language for low class people while English was considered a high class language. This resulted in an aversion to Swahili and an affinity to the English language. Unlike Kenya, Tanzania was never colonized by any other countries so mos...
Ethiopia is the only African country that never was colonized (except Liberia, which is not included in the study due to a lack of a webpage), but their statement is not particularly pro- nounced regarding any of the aspects investigated. Europe The source material for Europe was more ...
How:Based in Nairobi,Kenya, Adagala uses her blog to promote dishes with a heavy Kenyan influence. “I take our beloved traditional recipes and reinvent them by adding … a much more global feel with ingredients that are locally available. My mission is to show the world Kenyan food and to...
The island's history may help explain why: Christopher Columbus "discovered" Jamaica in 1494. The island was originally populated by the Taino Indians, who were wiped out when Spain colonized it in the 1500s. In 1655, England captured the island and imported large numbers of African slaves to...
Examples of the latter include Arab States’ exploitation of South Asian migrants, the Hindu-Sihk conflicts in India, the marginalization of pastoralist ethic groups in Kenya, and land reform conflicts in Zimbabwe. Many of these struggles are less straightforwardly “black and white” than those ...
The International Finance Corporation (IFC), the private-sector investment arm of the World Bank, recently secured $ 5.4m in financing for "Lighting the Bottom of the Pyramid", a four-year initiative that will engage lighting manufacturers with pilot projects in Kenya and Ghana. ...