African Culture
The novel by Ngugi wa Thiongo and Mariama Ba portrays the picture of African cultures in the colonial days. The novels are written based on the African society and practices, and how the colonial judges were to the black people. Both writers are African who base their story on the attitude of western people to Africans.
The River Between focuses its practices on the African culture, how they did them and how the colonial rule changed them. Ngugi tries to explain the hardships that Africans underwent during the colonial period, and focuses his story on one African tradition, the Kikuyus of Kenya. He clearly brings out their practices in the novel, under the British era.
Mariama Ba in her novel also shows the struggles of Africans under the colonial rule era. She portrays racism and brings out clearly African practices, focusing on one community of the Wolof in Senegal under Francoise rule. She uses the character, Ousmane, to explain the hardships he goes through love trances with Mirelle, who is French.
In my own view, both Waiyaki and Mirelle are naive about marriage. Both character fight for their love, and halts at nothing to make a point they bear what they want, and in the end, they lose it all. Waiyaki faces opposition from the two ridges, even his friends' end up betraying him but still he held on what he wanted. Even though religious practices differ from Waiyaki's, who is a traditionalist, he still goes ahead and wants to have Nyambura, who is a Christian. Their cultural practices differ too, traditionalist and Christians, but all for Waiyaki works out as he wishes. In the end, Waiyaki looses Nyambura because of his carelessness. He even wants to move with Nyambura to Nairobi, but he does not fight for it to escape the opposition from the two ridges. The novel ends when both are set to face the...
When online, I can stream music from any number of sources or download new music I want to hear. Music has become more personal than it was in traditional African societies. In traditional African societies, music was more a communal activity or a function of religion than it was a personal escape. Now music has become a way to meditate or find peace while in a chaotic urban environment.
systematical denial of culture by slaves on present day slave descendants? This is a paper that bases its description on Thornton's book Africa and Africans in the Making of the Atlantic World, 1400-1680 and theorizes that the systemic denial of the African cultural contribution is victimizing the African slave descendents as slavery victimized their forefathers. The Africans nation has had a vast and positive influence on the Atlantic World. Yet, the
African Culture in RwandaThe historical context of the film �Hotel Rwanda� gives an overview of the genocide that happened in Rwanda in April 1994, where about 800,000 Rwandese citizens were slaughtered brutally. This happened in a span of one hundred day period where people were put to death with machetes. The massacre occurred without seeking intervention from the rest of the world.Analyzing this film can allow one to explore or
Westernization African culture and the Western influence Every community has it peculiar culture and norms that identify it and sets it apart from the remaining cultures. There are native cultures that the Africans were accustomed to and adored them as their noble way of life. However, there came the intrusion of the Western culture from Europe that grossly interfered with the African culture is several aspects. There was a massive "decentering" of
African Centered Education In 'The Miseducation of the Negro', Carter Woodson (2000) argues that the education provided to African-Americans ignored or undervalued African historical experiences, and overvalued European history and culture. This has caused the alienation of African-Americans, who became dissociated from themselves, by ignoring or cutting African-Americans' links with their own culture and traditions. Woodson argued that this type of education has caused African-Americans to reject their own heritage, while
African-American Assimilation and Acculturation Self-identity and acceptance are important for any individual attempting to adapt to society and social change. Many African-American's have a difficult time adapting to cultural values and traditions in Western America. Some assume that assimilation an acculturation to Western values will remedy the social distress that exists within the African-American population. Many have described the current social status of African-Americans as in a state of distress. Much
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