Negative Aspects
1. Female Genital mutilation; According to the world Health organization is define as all procedure that involve partial or total removal of the external genitalia or other intentional mutilation of the female genital organs, whether for cultural or any other non therapeutic reason.
2. In inheritance of widows; This is practice of taking a woman (widow) after the death of her husband. This act has negative effective because it can lead to the contracting of the HIV/AIDS if one of the partners is a victim of HIV/AIDS. This act...
Saturday, January 6, 2018
Social Cultural practise which affect women in Africa
Negative Aspects1. Female Genital mutilation; According to the world Health organization is define as all procedure that involve partial or total removal of the external genitalia or other intentional mutilation of the female genital organs, whether for cultural or any other non therapeutic reason.2. In inheritance of widows; This is practice of taking a woman (widow) after the death of her husband. This act has negative effective because it can lead to the contracting of the HIV/AIDS if one of the partners is a victim of HIV/AIDS. This act is...
What are the social Cultural values that do not affects women in Africa
POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE ASPECT OF OUR CULTURAL VALUESPositive aspects1) Respect and hospitality; Refer to polite behavior that a person has towards other especially those he/she thinks are older or important to him/ her. For example in many societies the children are taught various way through which they should show respect. Those include greeting, receiving and handling property. How to talk to the elder etc. Through these way children grow up knowing how well they can behave in their families and community at large.2) Caring for other people and...
The meaning of culture and its Element
CULTUREDecember 26, 2017 0What is culture?Culture is the total way of life in a given society.Is a phenomenon that is practiced by all societies in the world. As a universal phenomenon it has bees held as a mankind asset which un-holds and perpetuates his time announced virtues. Culture links the past and present and synthesize man achievement and as nation.Culture can be defined as a total way of life of particular society in a given time and environment as a total way of life it embraces all that has been created by man excluding all that has...
Ways in which the Zanzibar Revolution brought about positive changes in the living conditions of the people of Isles.
Ways in which the Zanzibar Revolution brought about positive changes in the living conditions of the people of Isles.1. Increased access to education. The revolutionary government built schools and colleges for the people of Zanzibar and provided free education to college level.2. Restoration of land to the services of Africans. The government nationalized most plantations that were owned by Arabs and restored to indigenous people.3. Promotion of Africans participation in politics and governance. The revolutionary government ensured peoples participation...
Reasons why Zanzibar attained her indepence through Revolution
DECOLONIZATION THROUGH REVOLUTION IN ZANZIBAR.Revolution is the discontent reaction through violence exercised by the majority of the country population in order to gain recognition or reform when legal and moderate means of political or social changes fails. ORIs complete overthrow of an existing government or a way of life in an country or state by those who were previously subjected to it. Zanzibar revolution occurred in 1964 and led by John Okello.British granted independence to Zanzibar in December 1963 under the constitution which left Arabs...
Countries which attained independence through combination Method : Decolonization through combination method
DECOLONIZATION THROUGH THE COMBINATION OF METHODS ZIMBABWE.Zimbabwe nationalism took different forms. The well-known form was war of resistance, protest movements, Mass nationalism and armed struggle.The Early ResistanceThe early resistance was wagged by Mashona and Ndebele following the arrival of the white settlers in Zimbabwe in 1890. The strong resistance took place in 1896/97 which was known as Chimulenga war. The Chimulenga uprising was caused by forced labor, taxation, land alienation, confiscation of cattle by the white settlers etc.The...
Reasoms why most of African Countries attained their independence through Armed struggle
DECOLONIZATION THROUGH ARMED STRUGGLEArmed struggle is the struggle for freedom through the use of arms and is based on the struggle for political independence in Africa countries. In Africa armed struggle was employed by many of the settler and the former Portuguese colonies.Why Portuguese colonies achieved Independence through armed struggle?Portugal had three colonies in Africa namely, Mozambique, Guinea Bissau and Angola and these entire colonies attained independence through armed struggle due to the following reasons;1. Denial of the basic...
Factors which made Ghana to get her indepence earlier than Other Countries in Africa.
Decolonization through Constitutional Means in GhanaGhana mass nationalism began in 1940’s with the formation of political parties which demanded political independence through peacefully means, the political parties which were formed include;· The United Gold Coast Convention (UGCC)This was formed by J.B Ndaguah in 1947 and Dr. Kwame Nkrumah becomes the general secretary. The party was formed as the result of “Burns Constitution” which was introduced by Sir Allan Burns who was a governor by the time. In this constitution, it provided that the...
What are the factors which made Tanganyika to get her Independence earlier?
Factors that led Tanganyika to get her independence earlier.1. Good leadership of the party under the late J.K Nyerere. He united all people under the single political party to fight for independence. He discouraged and opposed racialist policies which could divide the people in the process of fighting for independence.2. The use of Swahili language with common word like “Uhuru”. This made the people to understand the mission/aims of the party hence many people ranging from the workers in towns to the peasant and the rural areas joined and supported...
The meaning, Objective and problems faced TANU in Tanganyika
The struggle for independence in Tanganyika took a peaceful means (Constitution means) the struggle was led by Tanganyika African National Union (TANU) as a mass political party after changing its name from Tanganyika African Association (TAA) and adopting new objective in 1954.Objective of TANU1. To prepare the people of Tanganyika for self-independent government2. To destroy tribalism and develop national unity for the whole people of Tanganyika3. To struggle for democratic government and to have representative in local districts and central...
What are the types of Decolonization and its forms ?
DECOLONIZATIONDecolonization is the process of Africans struggles to uproot colonialist and foreign rule. This process started immediately after the imposition of colonial rule. Decolonization also denotes the different form of acquiring independence determined by the nature of colonization in the colony.Forms of decolonizationIn Africa there were various forms which employed in decolonization process. These forms were constitutional (peaceful means), armed struggle, combination of peaceful means and armed struggle and Revolutionary means.A. Constitutional...
Internal factors and external factors for the rise of African mass Nationalism
Is the Mass feelings and attitude of demanding independence by using a nationalist struggle in form of unified parties beyond the class, tribe or ethnic background.It denotes the period in which many Africans formed many political parties for struggle for Africans independence rather than the changes in colonial system. Generally, when speaking of development of mass nationalism in Africa started soon after the end of WWII (1945).Internal Reasons for the Rise of Mass African Nationalism.1) Colonial exploitation: These include intensive economic...
The meaning and factors for the rise of Nationalism in Africa
IntroductionNationalism is the political will of African people to unite together as a nation and fight against the foreign rule, with the intention of ruling themselves Or Is an express of political unity with an aim of regaining independence. Or Are patriotic feelings or consciousness of people who regard themselves as one.In African context Nationalism is a desire of African people to terminate all form of foreign rule. Nationalism in Africa gained its momentum immediately after the Second World War in 1945. It is the Second World War that influenced...
Tuesday, January 2, 2018
Colonialism and colonial administrative system in Africa
Colonial administrative systems were the ways of controlling and maintaining colonial power in colonies after the establishment of colonialism. In the early 20th century, the process of conquest and partition of Africa were almost completed by European powers, only Ethiopia and Liberia escaped from colonial control. Colonialists including Germany, French, British, Portugal, Belgium etc. after colonizing African countries they introduced different administrative systems in their colonies depended on the following:
The nature of the people in the...