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Taleah Adams: Final Project- "My Plan For FGM in Africa"
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View my complete profile. Final Project- My Plan For FGM in Africa. I Read Banned Books. African Lit with Linz! Push it to the limit! Excursions in African Lit. Explorations through a literary jungle. Reanne's African Lit. Blog. Your Friendly Neighborhood Rhyme-Slinger! Amaranth in the Country of Eden. All About Your One And Only. Muah! African Exploration of Epic Proportion. Lindsey's African Literature Exploration. A Walk Through African Literature. Thursday, December 11, 2008.
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African Scramble: November 2008
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Sunday, November 9, 2008. The Bleeding of the Stone. I am fascinated by the natural and spiritual world of this novel by Ibrahim Al-Koni, and how that world is changing with contact with Europe, America, and modernization. I include images, of the Libyan desert and mountains of the Bedouins. And of the famous rock carvings described in the text. Howard Banwell has an interesting collection of pictures of Libyan desert petroglyphs. A UNESCO world heritage site. He'd become wary of hunting the waddan.
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African Scramble: Racism in Heart of Darkness
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Thursday, October 2, 2008. Racism in Heart of Darkness. I am talking about a book which parades in the most vulgar fashion prejudices and insults from which a section of mankind has suffered untold agonies and atrocities in the past and continues to do so in many ways and many places today. I am talking about a story in which the very humanity of black people is called into question.". So speaks Chinua Achebe. About Heart of Darkness. A matter that haunts, I think, nearly all Conrad's writing. When writi...
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African Scramble: October 2008
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Monday, October 27, 2008. 2006) is a rich and beautiful novel capturing the experience of women and families during the last 80 years in Sierra Leone. The first time I read the novel was preparing to teach it this summer. The NPR website. Provides an interesting history of Aminata Forna, whose father was hung during the Civil War when she was only eleven years old. Monday, October 13, 2008. Reading King Leopold's Ghost. I watched the film Lumumba. At Wikipedia and the short film about Lumumba. On YouTube...
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African Scramble: September 2008
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Tuesday, September 30, 2008. The Dark Places of the Earth. And this also," said Marlow suddenly, "has been one of the dark places of the earth.". So here, too, SW Michigan, and the Pottawatomie. Removal, what they call the " Trail of Death. The "removal" took place in 1838. There is a remarkable journal. Of the escorting military officer. What does his journal have in common with the voices we hear in Heart of Darkness. Here is one entry:. From SW Michigan and Northern Indiana. That I can't simply get ou...
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African Scramble: The Dark Places of the Earth
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Tuesday, September 30, 2008. The Dark Places of the Earth. And this also," said Marlow suddenly, "has been one of the dark places of the earth.". So here, too, SW Michigan, and the Pottawatomie. Removal, what they call the " Trail of Death. The "removal" took place in 1838. There is a remarkable journal. Of the escorting military officer. What does his journal have in common with the voices we hear in Heart of Darkness. Here is one entry:. From SW Michigan and Northern Indiana. View my complete profile.
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African Scramble: August 2008
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Saturday, August 30, 2008. Maa ngi fii rekk. As we explore Africa before colonialism one of the first observations must be about the enormous diversity of environments, life ways, ethnic groups, and languages that existed. When I was in Senegal with a group of teachers I began a study of the Wolof language. Spoken by the largest ethnic group in that country. Wolof is a branch of the Niger-Congo language family and the map shows the country of Senegal and the distribution of Wolof speakers. In addition to...
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African Scramble: Congo and "Independence"
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Monday, October 13, 2008. Reading King Leopold's Ghost. Developed my interest in the Congo so I did some research to try to bring my understanding closer to the present. I watched the film Lumumba. Dir Raoul Peck) about the man who led the Congolese independence movement and became the country's first Prime Minister. The article on Lumumba. At Wikipedia and the short film about Lumumba. Will find these sites interesting. Here is a passage from the speech. All that, my brothers, we have endured. But we, w...
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African Scramble: "I myself never made any lethal injections."
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Saturday, September 20, 2008. I myself never made any lethal injections.". Is a narrative of horror and genocide (1) not so far from us in time. My grandfather (below) was a grown man at the time the holocaust in the Congo occurred. There are many events described in King Leopold's Ghost. A physician at Auschwitz, who justified himself watching orderlies make lethal injections into people he selected - "I myself never made any lethal injections." (p.122). For involving others in their crime. 1) I use tha...
