Essays on Colonialism

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….

Prejudice and discrimination amongst european explorers against the American Indians is an issue found in Christopher Columbus’ two letters concerning his voyages to America. To explain how prejudice attitude arises, Tajfel proposed the social identity theory. According to this theory, belonging to a group is…

Two explorers that were alike in many ways, but had different viewpoints on the Indians. In Christopher Columbus’s letters he tries to show the court that the Indians were easy to manipulate and talks about how “freed and converted to their Holy Faith by love…

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…

The Columbian Exchange has been known to be one of the most significant occurrences in human history. This crucial human intervention changed the world the way we know it, however this exchange mainly benefited the people of Europe and its colonies in the New World…

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….

William Byrd of Westover, Virginia, was one of the most elite Virginians of the 18th century. William Byrd was wealthy, educated, successful, and hospitable. The journal The Secret Diary of William Byrd of Westover 1709-1712, edited by Louis B. Wright and Marion Tilling, is composed…

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…

The letter served as Europe’s first introduction to this new land and shaped their views on the indigenous people for many years.Most of Europe thought of the people as barbarians until a french philosopher, Michel di Montaigne, wrote an essay completely rejecting that idea and…

As a figure, Gandhi is known worldwide for his call for Indian independence and his movement of civil disobedience directed towards ending British colonization. When put in few words, Gandhi’s approach might be under-estimated in its worth by reducing it to the element of non-violent…