Africa is a continent with a booming customer base, aspirations for entrepreneurship, and indigenous innovation. However, a crucial sector for economic development in Africa, science and technology development has long been underfunded and ignored in many of the continent’s nations. Some economists believe that the continent’s underdevelopment is partly due to the widening technological and…
Before Europeans came, Africans had diverse ways of life under different kinds of governments. Kings ruled great empires like Mali and Songhai. Some states had a democratic rule. Some groups had no central government. However, slavery existed in Africa long before Europeans arrived. Rulers in Mali and Songhai had thousands of slaves who worked as…
In many parts of Africa, there is a large discrepancy in who controlled the resources, access to the economy, individual autonomy and central voice in the government between the men and the women. African men, for the most part, have the largest say in the activities of the country. When issues of concern arise, “men’s…
In Maryse Condé’s The Last of the African Kings, the main characters have been dispersed throughout the Caribbean and United States due to years of oppression and colonialism. In the preface to the novel, Richard Philcox writes: “African American music influences not only the atmosphere of the novel but also its structure.” He continues by…
Around 190 million years ago, Pangaea began to break up. The breakup resulted in two landmasses: Laurasia, the northern group of continents, and Gondwanaland, the southern group of continents; Gondwanaland included South America, Antarctica, Australia, Africa, and India. Breakups! North America: 130 mya Australia: 50 mya India: 90 mya Europe: 30 mya Antarctica: 50 mya…