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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: 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: "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...
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African Scramble: Ancestor Stones
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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. A new find regard King Solomon's mines. Not exactly in Africa like everyone first thought. October 28, 2008 at 4:25 PM.