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In Achebe’s Things Fall Apart, the African culture is depicted by following the life of Okonkwo, a rather customary and conventional African villager. Achebe wanted to write a novel that…

What is it in today’s society that debates influence on the “Old World”? Well in today’s society, there are large debates to modern civilization and causing influences such as trade,…

Various research studies have been directed to the various socio-economic factors which are affecting the African American boys/ males. However, the same research is only a recent phenomena developed to…

The African Union is a conglomerate of 53 African countries. The Libyan leader, Muammar Gaddafi in order to replace the old Organization of African Unity, which was no longer effective,…

In practical politics, they say, any publicity is good publicity. Although the attention the world has accorded the People’s Republic of China (PRC) in the past few years has come…

Mobile telecommunication in most developed countries has reached a saturated stage which makes it highly competitive for the big companies in the industry. Many of these big companies are now…

The period 1900s to the 1950s features an increased volume of works of art by African Americans, with these ranging from music, visual art, dance and literature (Jones 4). Jones…

Have you ever seen a man born in the 18th century who is still living among us today? No, this is no possible because death is inevitable but before it…

The phrase “all men are created equal” has been a subject of debate for a long time; it was used by the women to claim their rights, the slaves and…

Like any skill, musical talent is a combination of natural ability, self-discipline, and time.  However, no amount of self-discipline and time can help if one is entirely tone deaf!  For…

In the 1930’s, Franklin D. Roosevelt proposed the New Deal which had three goals; relief, recovery and reform. The New Deal offered many programs to help Americans cope with the…

African-American music has continued to evolve in the face of diehard musical currents since the 1950s. Floyd (1995) is curious about the effect of political, social and artistic currents on…

Born sometime in the late 19th century to African American and Native American parents, Edmonia Lewis rose to success in Boston, Massachusetts as a sculptor specializing in abolitionist and Civil…

The role of African American actresses during the early years of the motion picture is perhaps one of the most interesting studies for many historians. This is because of the…

The Migration was the movement of approximately seven million Africans out of the Southern United States to the North, Midwest and West from 1916 to 1930. Precise estimates of the…

Juvenile delinquency is the act when a person ranging from ages of 10 through 17 years commits crime in the society. Juvenile delinquency of the youth is the main product…

Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) once said that “As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master”, in his famous Gettysburg Address during the ‘Emancipation Proclamation’ in…

Almost two hundred years ago, the United States of America was very much different from the U.S.A. of the 21st century. The difference was not only in the infrastructure, the…

Strategies for African-American uplift throughout the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries varied according to leaders’ personal styles and the social and political contexts in which they operated.  While some…

Of Our Spiritual Strivings by W.E.B. Dubois is the first essay in the author’s book The Souls of Black Folk published in 1903. The essay starts out with a poem…