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Damilare
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DEVELOPMENT OF AFRICA
April 11, 2003 - 11:45 AM
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My main aim is to bring awareness back to Africa. Many Afrians dont beleive in themselves. Many have been transformed by the colonial era. thus, believing that Africans are not talented or intelligent. Because most of the Inventor of most Technological machines are not Africans. In my first Article published here on TIG, I stressed out why Africans where not better in some feilds. Sit and relax!
THE DEVELOPMENT OF AFRICA
The development of man has been widely influenced by geographical
factors that surround him. Thus, making humans around the world different in
their respective fields.
The development of Africa has altered the fields of traditions and
agriculture. Africans are good at weaving and farming, Africans also
believe in the existence of ancestral gods. This is due to the geographical
factors around them. They are nearer to to agricultural resources.
Areas of Africa are in rich in vegetation and rivers. Therefore many
Africans became farmers, hunters, fishermen and weavers. The harsh weather
and climate in early Africa made Africans to believe in the existence of
Ancestral gods. They believed that an angry god caused any misfortune.
Therefore to appease the god a sacrificial ritual was performed.
There are many cultures and traditions in Africa. Those from Northern
Africa adapted to hunting while West Africans are farmers and fishermen
due their nearness to the rivers.
The development of the western world and Africa differs in that the
early days Africans were busy looking for ways to develop their skills in
there aforesaid fields. Americans and Europeans were inventing
technological machines to be used for wars. They were war aggressive because
of the area in which they lived in. They lived in an area that could be
easily invaded, thus making weapons helped prepared them for invaders.
Africans on the other side lived in a remote and inaccessible area
making them to be less warlike.
In Addition, Americans and Europeans had the opportunity to learn from
the outside world. They were informed about the latest styles in
politics, technology and science because they lived in a plain and accessible
area while the Africans were not informed about the latest style in
politics and other Industry. The Western world was not as good as Africans
in Bush activities like fishing, hunting, and some laborious tasks.
This being a factor of their geographically environment.
Another factor that has affected the development of man is the natural
ingenuity in which he is endowed with. African is better in arts than
many other nations. They have the talent of singing, acting, carving,
speaking, and other artistic activities than American. While the
Americans’ ingenuity lies in the act of inventing technological materials,
science, economy, and politics. African Americans whose ancestry is from
Africa are leaders in the Entertainment Industry. Though born in
America and African American still carries his African traits. Like
Africans, African Americans has the natural talent for the art of speaking but
his natural ingenuity will lie in the American trait.
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shoks
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Re: DEVELOPMENT OF AFRICA
April 16, 2003 - 10:28 AM
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Dgreatafrican has a good point. I, personally, think our view has been so much skewed... in SA, thanks to apartheid we were (unconsciously) taught to hate each other and taught to hate anything made in Africa or SA. Can you look at a watch in the mirror? That's exactly how some/most/a few Africans see their image - via the west's (maybe I should say CNN or BBC etc) perspective.
In SADC too there was and is a great deal of fishing, hunting, farming and weaving. You will probably know there's a group of people abusively known as Bushmen in Southern Africa. We are not Bushmen -- we are Khoi Khoi and San communities living in Africa thus Africans. Don't call us Bushmen we are Khoisan. We don't call anyone colonyman or landthiefman (what colonizers did upon arrival in Africa) or yankee.
"In Addition, Americans and Europeans had the opportunity to learn from the outside world." I think you are referring to European ascendants (settlers in America) or what Americans are you talking about? Aren't you? Most Americans, also called "Red Indians" how funny, were killed upon the colonizers arrival in America.
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