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Globalization and Westernization have had both positive and negative effects on African norms. Here are some of the effects worth considering: *Technological Advancements: Westernization and globalization have brought technological advancements to Africa, improving communication, healthcare, education, and infrastructure development. It has also enhanced access to information and knowledge. *Homogenization and Cultural Erosion: There is a concern that globalization and Westernization may lead to the erosion of African cultural norms, traditions, and languages. Western influences, such as mass media and consumerism, can sometimes overshadow local cultural practices and values, leading to a loss of cultural diversity. *Identity and Cultural Conflicts: The influence of Western norms and values can sometimes create conflicts with traditional African norms. This can lead to generational and societal tensions, as younger generations may adopt Western practices, while older generation...

The presence of ancient, medieval and modern presence of Black Africans in the Sahara and the Sahel regions is well documented and indisputable. Among these countries, a significant portion of the population of southern Morocco, northern Mauritania, Saharan parts of Libya, Algeria and Egypt passes as Black. Now, the inherently and naturally racist Western world has two methods to cope with Black brilliance. If there are any kind of indication that the civilization is not built by Blacks but caucasians, they will keep denying. That is what is happening in the case of ancient Egypt (they letting their caucasian brothers claim the civilization). However, if the civilization is undeniably built by Blacks, they will purposely ignore it. In this way, the Black presence in North Africa is purposefully ignored and the inherently racist western world clings to fake Saharan divide. Sometimes, it even denies it. They want to keep away Blacks from anything they value or anything that they co...

It remains the world’s ONLY successful major slave rebellion. Making it all the more famous an event. Even Spartacus failed nearly 1900 years earlier, and he is still far more famous for it for some reason. Général François-Dominique Toussaint Louverture should be famous. He was a great man. If he was a hero somewhere other than Haiti, he might be even more famous. As it stands, you have to be a pretty big history nerd to know of him and his deeds at all…..: Addendum: BUT, if you dig deep into the conflict, it is filled with atrocities and barbarity on ALL sides, with genocide, torture and massacres perpetrated by and against the blacks, mulattoes and whites who fought variously against one another from the beginning to the end. It is one reason why not celebrating it is the appropriate choice. The second reason to not celebrate it is what the Haitians have done with their freedom in the 200+ years since freedom. Bad choice after bad choice in how it dealt with the Western...

When God created humanity, he bestowed upon us the blessing of creation- a capability observed in no other creature. We are born to create. We turned the tree to wood and make fire. We turned the wood into houses. Chairs, tables, furnitures….. The whole economic process is characterized by utilizing the power of creation to improve material life. The issues of distributing wealth, manipulating people's desires, the usage of money as a method of exchange all derive from the above activity. Africa is not blessed by her diamonds- she is cursed by them. Because only few in any society use their creative gift properly, most spend their lives chasing things that are readily available to them. Honey attracts lots of bees. A fight would break out among men, and the strongest takes the reward. Since Africans never had adequate time in experimenting self-governance under a modern society, there are no rules regulating those fights. When elephants fight, it is the grass which is tram...

You know, it would help us all enormously if everyone reviewed Europe, The Americas and Asia's history before asking questions about Africa. Yugoslavia was a creation of the First World War, where the elites of Europe decided to create a country out of 4 different "tribes" who were all Slav's and white. This country lasted for 70 years and then imploded. Czechoslovakia has a similar history - that one lasted for 20 years and then again for 50 years and then became 2 countries. At least no-one died. Most of Africa has not been independent for 50 years!! We need to recover from problem that was colonialism and we need to recover from the problems created by our artificial borders. When white folks talk about the "good stuff" colonialism brought it is always about roads/railways/infrastructure and so forth. What is not mentioned or thought about is how African minds were also colonised. To be truly free we need to liberate our minds (paraphrasing Steve Bik...

Somaliland is a self-declared state in the Horn of Africa. It has its own government, currency, and military. It has also held several democratic elections. However, Somaliland is not recognized as an independent country by any other country in the world. There are several reasons why Somaliland has not been recognized as an independent country. One reason is that it is located in a region that is plagued by conflict. Somalia, the country that Somaliland broke away from, has been in a state of civil war for decades. Somaliland has been relatively peaceful, but it is still seen as a risky investment by many countries. Another reason why Somaliland has not been recognized as an independent country is that it is not clear what its borders would be. Somaliland claims to include all of the territory that was part of the British Somaliland Protectorate, which was established in 1884. However, some of this territory is now controlled by Somalia. Despite not being recognized as an in...

If you're referring to the slaves who were sent to the Americas, the answer is simple: West Africa and Western Central Africa are relatively closer to the Americas as compared to where the East Africa is - so it purely has to do with geographical locations. But if you're referring to the African slaves as a whole, there were also North and East African slave trades, not ONLY the Atlantic slavery trade from West Africa and Western Central Africa! It's sad to learn that when people talk about the African slave trade, they only talk about the Atlantic slave trade (which actually constituted about 55% only of the whole African slave trade). In addition to it, there was North African slave trade (Arab slave trade) and East African slave trade (Arab and Portuguese slave trades). The East African slave trade used almost all the seas and oceans of the world and even a river, to transport slaves – the Nile River (in vessels of papyrus), Indian Ocean, Red Sea, Arabian Sea, Pers...

Imazighen aka Berbers are indigenous people of North Africa, west of the River Nile Valley. Their homeland is the Horn of Africa. They have their own and distinctive genetic marker, the Berber marker, e1b1b E-M81. It is a paternal signature that all Berbers share. Imazighen are a composite group of people because they have absorbed and assimilated people from outside Africa and within Africa. They have absorbed through interbreeding and among others, the following non-African people : Phoenicians, Romans, Vandals, Slavs, Alans, Jews, Turks, Arabs, Greeks, Vikings, Spaniards. They have assimilated people from Africa and from outside Africa. These people are Berber converts not real Berbers. Ikelan are the descendants of black slaves captured during slave raids. The Andalusi, the descendants of expelled Spanish Muslims. The Saqaliba were slave soldiers and mercenaries of Slavic origin. The Renegades, Europeans who turned Turk by drawing profit by selling and trading in Barbary s...

No, black people do not only originate from Africa. There are black people all over the world, including in Europe, Asia, and the Americas. The first humans evolved in Africa, and over time, some of them migrated to other parts of the world. As they migrated, they interbred with other populations, and their descendants eventually became the black people we see today. It is important to remember that race is a social construct, not a biological one. There is no scientific basis for dividing people into different races. All humans are genetically related, and we share more than 99% of our DNA. The differences that we see between people of different races are due to a small number of genes, and these differences do not make one race superior to another. It is also important to remember that black people have a rich and diverse history. They have made significant contributions to all aspects of human society, and they continue to play an important role in the world today. We should cel...

No. The funny thing is that you people ask these questions in the internet without knowing what they mean. You think European countries suddenly became sympathetic and decolonized African countries, don't you. Let me tell you something; if you are White, and lived in places like Congo or Kenya some 60-70 years ago, it is very likely that you would have been decapacitiated. Decapacitiated by hordes of Africans breaking into your room and pillaging into your property built upon stolen African land. So “decolonization" is not something to joke about. Had the Africans felt they were marginalized, robbed, disenfranchised etc…. decolonization would not have happened. By the 1950s, decolonization was the only card the Europeans were left to play with as they lacked the economic and military capacity they had some 50 years ago, were faced with a substantial ideological opposition, and recurrent, unending resistance of increasing magnitude. You can not consolidate your ru...

I remember thinking about this question for days until I came across a story written by a dear brother. It has been three weeks - three weeks of going and coming, and yet nothing has changed. I passed by it this morning, yet she is still full of greens. Only that her greens have now multiplied. But that isn't my desire, I want her greens to be yellow and her yellows to yield to gravity's pull. I want her yellows to litter the floor, like grains of sand on the beach side. I have seen her friends in other places. Many have yellowed, but not hers. And every day my apprehension worsens. I want to lose hope. Should I pluck the greens? I almost jumped the gun when I remembered my late puppy, Sparkle. She was the finest of her mum's progeny, but she died of her guardian rashness. Because I weaned her abruptly in infancy, she grew sick and died. Oh! How much pain tears couldn't wash away. I want no such fate for her greens. No! I hate to see her greens brown, rot and waste aw...

Yes, there are Bantu communities in the Horn of Africa, also known as the Jareer people or Afro-Somali. The Jareer are descendants of Bantu people who migrated from southern Africa to the eastern coast of Africa over a thousand years ago. They settled in various parts of the Horn of Africa, including southern Somalia, eastern Ethiopia, and northeastern Kenya. In Ethiopia, the Jareer people are mainly found in the southern region, particularly in the Oromia and Somali regions. They have faced similar challenges to the Jareer people in Somalia, including discrimination and lack of access to education, healthcare, and other basic services. In Somalia, the Jareer people are primarily found in the Lower Shabelle and Middle Shabelle regions, where they make up a significant portion of the population. They have their own distinct culture, language, and traditions, and have faced significant discrimination and marginalization in Somalia due to their Bantu origins.

1. Morocco – 8.7 million arrivals 2. Egypt – 7.9 million arrivals 3. South Africa – 6.8 million arrivals 4. Tunisia – 6.1 million arrivals 5. Zimbabwe – 1.6 million arrivals

Short answer: they would lose control. Europe likes control. Control of its people, control of the cheese prices, control of the fiscal policy, etc. They also like to think of themselves as the smartest in the room, as the leaders the world so badly needs, and they love to preach to others what others should do. Yet, as soon as their values are tested they buckle like the hypocrites they are. They were comfortable on their high horses when proclaiming that Africa and other developing nations should skip the benefits of fossil fuels and decarbonize in an insanely short timeframe without doing so themselves, and all it took for all their bluster to crumble was Russia closing a few pipes. Now nuclear and gas are rebranded as green and we all have to pretend like this was the European plan all along. 1984-ish to say the least. Europe does not want Africa to develop, because a developed nation is harder to control. Especially, if giant Nigeria gets its act together and works as one (h...

Netflix is just trying to be as much in tune with historical facts as possible and get some people out of the fairy tale that they have been immersed in for too many centuries. Cleopatra certainly has Greek ancestry, but her family had lived in Egypt for a few centuries already among a mainly “black” population at a time when racism was not systemic. The interbreeding of Cleopatra and a good part of her family is therefore logically inevitable and in terms of physical appearance Cleopatra is probably closer to Netflix's choice than Liz Taylor. I inform you if you did not know that the ancient Egyptians were “black” and that immigration, wars, intermingling and miscegenation and also that certain discriminatory and oppressive policies of the conquerors of this territory were the main factors of the late change in the general aspect of Egyptian population as we see it today. You also have to know that ***Kam/Cham/Ham are phonetic variants of Kem/Chem/Hem which constitutes the r...

Goal setting can be defined as putting one's life aims or ambitions towards a particular time and working hard to ensure that it is met and achieved. Goals are the result at which one's effort is aimed. While it is important to set life goals, it is also necessary not to set them haphazardly and without any guidelines. This means that your methods of setting goals matter a lot. Some guidelines which could help one set his or her goal properly are but are not limited to; 1. Set moderately difficult but realistic goals: That is, not all goals are humanly achievable. Every human being should not exceed the limit of their capacity and should learn to take baby steps per time to grow. Growth is the most beautiful thing on earth because everyone takes a part in it. Therefore, it's not an anomaly when you start with easy-to-achieve goals. 2. Set short term and long term goals: Short term goals help you take care of situations as they arise while long term goals help to ...

It is important to note that comparing black women in the 1970s to young black girls today is not a straightforward comparison, as they are from different generations and have experienced different cultural and social contexts. However, some general observations can be made about the experiences of black women in the 1970s compared to young black girls today. In the 1970s, black women in the United States were fighting for social and political equality in the aftermath of the Civil Rights Movement. Many black women were active in feminist and civil rights organizations and were working to challenge systemic racism and sexism. Black women in the 1970s often faced discrimination and limited opportunities in education, employment, and other areas, and were often subjected to negative stereotypes and stigmatization. Today, young black girls have more opportunities and greater visibility than black women did in the 1970s. They have access to education, employment, and social media p...

All Israelites are black. Only Jews, such as the Ashkenazi Jews who are white Please, don't mix the two groups, they are totally different, as precisely defined in this 1925 Jewish Encyclopedia article. Click link for more information. https://qph.cf2.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-7732fd7fd8df33982b7602fd3058262f The Israelites, being the descendants of Shem, (as opposed to the descendants of Ham and the descendants of Japheth) were and are always black, or a specific variant of the black skin color known as boxwood (light to dark blackish brown), as detailed below.

No, according to Elon Musk, he did not grow up with a silver spoon in his mouth as being always reported by the media; in fact, he grew up in a lower, transitioning to an upper-middle-income situation, and did not have a happy childhood. He revealed this on Twitter while responding to a tweet by a woman named Deborah, who wrote,‘’ Musk came to the US with no money but graduated with over $100K in debt’’ She continued, ‘’Even having a wealthy family, a student can have a lot of financial difficulties.’’ Musk also claimed that reports that his father owned an emerald mine in Zambia were lies; he wrote, ‘’Regarding the so-called 'emerald mine,' there is no objective evidence whatsoever that this mine ever existed. He told me that he owned a share in a mine in Zambia, and I believed him for a while, but nobody has ever seen the mine, nor are there any records of its existence.‘’ According to Elon, his father rather owned an electrical/mechanical engineering company for 25 to 30...

The borders of Africa, as they exist today, are the result of a complex history of colonization, political maneuvering, and power struggles. Many of these borders were drawn without regard for pre-existing cultural or ethnic boundaries, which has led to numerous conflicts and challenges for the continent. The "badness" of the borders is subjective, as different people have different opinions on what constitutes a good or bad border. However, one of the main criticisms of the current borders is that they do not align with the ethnic or linguistic boundaries of the various African peoples, which has led to tensions, conflicts, and difficulties in governance. A perfect set of borders for Africa is difficult to determine, as it would require a deep understanding of the continent's complex history, culture, and politics. However, ideally, the borders would be redrawn in a way that takes into account the various ethnic, linguistic, and cultural groups that exist within...