Essays on African Diaspora

Afro-Portuguese Ivories are artifacts that are well known and admired throughout history. Ivories are known to be derived from the west coasts of Africa. These works of art are the first known African art pieces to be brought back to Europe through African-Portuguese trading. The…

Throughout the beginning of the semester, we have centered our class around a few key terms that we have found to be important. These terms that we have discussed thus far and will be discussing in great detail are Diaspora. Most importantly, we have discussed…

Introduction When people think of Africa and Africans they think of hot dry place, poverty, huts, war, famine, etc. Society and the media has created these misconceptions and stereotypes of Africa and Africans. Africa is the second largest continent on this earth. Africa is a…

“The Last King of Scotland” is a historical movie that focuses on the history of Uganda in the early 1970’s during the reign of Ugandan dictator and military officer, Idi Amin,whose regime (1971-79) was noted for the sheer scale of its brutality (Britannica, 2018)). In…

My name is Said Bensoussan, I am old now, but I was young once. It was interesting time. I was only a child, but I still remember these odd times. In European held colonies in Africa, there were many different styles of rule. For example…

Article 5 of the human rights declaration states “No human should be subject to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment”. Yet today over 40.3 million people in the world are subjected to the abuse and torment of slavery on the daily….

Hunting in Africa Hunting, one of the most controversial topics that any person can bring up. Many people in this world do not endorse hunting, especially in Africa. This is because some people feel that the killing of animals for sport is inconsequential, cruel, and…

King Mohammed VI despatched a message to the contributors of the 2nd annual summit of the initiative “Ladies in Africa”, the primary worldwide platform to help the financial growth and accompaniment of African girls leaders and excessive potential, which opened its work Thursday in Marrakech….

Diaspora for Development in Africa is quite an interesting read, as it is based on papers selected from a conference on Diaspora and Development that was organized by the World Bank in 2009. In addition, many chapters, although relating to the African diaspora and its…

African diaspora means communities that are descended from the historic movement of peoples from Africa to Europe, the Americas, Asia and the Middle East. African diaspora has been applied to the descendants of the West and Central Africans who were enslaved and shipped to the…