Pamonag, Febe
Spanish brick churches built during the colonial era dominate the towns. The churches are large and different from traditional construction. It is difficult to imagine how the indigenous population in the seventeenth century was able to build them. Filipino families enjoy close kin bonds, and ...
Though there is archaeological evidence that societies have been living in Nigeria for more than twenty-five hundred years, the borders of modern Nigeria were not created until the British consolidated their colonial power over the area in 1914. The name Nigeria was suggested by British journalist...
Radical politics in colonial Punjab : governance and sedition The actions of the radical left in Punjab in pre-Independence India during the 1920s and 30s have often been viewed as foreign and quintessentially un-Indian due to their widely vilified opposition to the Quit India campaign. This boo...
walks of life whose votes brought us to victory. They defended me. They worked with me. They prayed for me. It is the women who labored and advocated for peace throughout our region.”—Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, the first elected woman president in post-colonial Africa (...
Well, let’s recall that the Dove’s parent company is Unilever, after all — headquartered in the Netherlands. The Dutch have a long history ofdenying the racism behind their colonial empire. So, perhaps, no. Meanwhile, along comesGeneral Mills. A new pair of ads follows in the footsteps...
Philippines Poland Portugal Republic of Korea Romania Saudi Arabia Senegal Slovakia Spain Sri Lanka Sweden Switzerland Thailand Trinidad and Tobago Tunisia Turkey Uganda United Kingdom Uruguay Vignette2.1 Road to 2015: Pre-college Gender Parity and UNESCO’s Millennium Development Goals ...
way to carry food for a journey. This practice is also found in the Visayan Islands of the Philippines and in Indonesia, and is called by the same name. While most fishing was done by men, women fished in shallow lagoons and tidal pools, feeling among the rocks and catching the fish ...
Fiji has experienced socio-economic impacts that have shaped traditional culture through two distinct waves of glo- balisation: the "colonial wave" (1870s–1914) and the "neo- liberal wave" (1987-present) (Firth 2000). Across the two waves of globalisation, the hierarchy of political economic...
Also known as Makea Nui Teremona Ariki Tapuanoanoa Tinirau Cowan, she was member of the Rarotongan Legislature 1947-59 and represented the Cook Islands in the South Pacific Commission an institution established by the regional Colonial powers to promote 'native welfare' in their Pacific colonies...