I was assigned a project in World Geography and the topic is the Azande tribe in Africa. I have found a lot of information, but if anyone can tell me what life is like there, I'd be very grateful. I want to represent these people accurately and well. If you know anything about them, please answer. Thank you!
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Wikipedia The Free Encyclopedia has a pretty thorough discourse on the Azande. I found some other websites as well (links below). I hope it helps you with your project.
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u doing the DAR? so is my cousin. it was a time of misery. the pilgrims arrived, were divided into groups of explorers, builders, and farmers. they started advancing up the james river and settled on james island. but there was no water their but there was contaminated water and thirsty peeps drank it and died and people also died of dysentery because of the disease ridden mosquitoes living around the dirty water. the supply ships had delayed their trip to avoid the rough winter seas, so they were out of food 4 almost a hole year. and then came new hope, the indians, and i hope you no it from there
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I was in Botswana for two weeks in 1992.  I really liked it a lot.  It is quite tragic how much warfare is tearing that continent apart.
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NO EASY ANSWERS - but useful hints instead, from a (former) world history teacher. \n\n1. Think of who the slave traders wanted - mainly young men who were useful as laborers. So what would happen if a region where most people were farmers lost a lot of its strong workers? Also, think of how the people were removed, and how people would logically react. They didn't go willingly, and their families weren't happy about it. \n\n2. The examples are simply a list, and it's not useful to just copy from an email. Besides, your teacher probably used specific examples, and mine might be different. You'll find most of the anti-colonial resistance taking place between 1890 and 1960, and some examples you can look up are the Asante revolt, the Igbo Women's War, the Bambatha Uprising, the Chilembwe Revolt, the Maji-Maji Rebellion, and the Chimurenga/Second Chimurenga. You should be able to Google these or look them up in a book, or ask your school librarian and get answers fairly quickly - ones that you can remember on the upcoming test because you learned them for homework!\n\n3. Salt and gold had their uses, and more importantly, they were found in different parts of West Africa, so the people with salt traded it for gold, and vice versa. Again, not a tough one to look up yourself, and worth the effort. Try any middle school textbook chapter on precolonial Africa, and you should get a map of the salt and gold trade. \n\n4. Which defeat of Germany? Probably WWI. I don't know if Germany was defeated so much by events as by situations. The alliance against Germany included France, Russia, England and eventually the United States, and the entry of the US into WWI was important. The German u-boat sinking of the liner Lusitania triggered American entry. \n\nThe Bolshevik Revolution in Russia also stirred up a stong enemy in the east. \n\nGermany and its allies were surrounded by hostile powers and unable to get many products needed for fighting a war, including food for the soldiers. So their supply problem was also a cause of their defeat. \n\n5. The time period matters here, and you will have to filter through my ideas to find the ones that fit your class. \n\n- Developing economies grew slowly for a variety of reasons, including:\n  - colonizers made them serve the colonial market, producing less profitable goods, and/or selling them so cheaply as not to make a profit, therefore the colonized peoples never had money to spend on improving their production\n  - many colonies had labor laws that allowed colonizers to all but enslave the locals, which meant that there was little reason to educate the workforce or build for the future\n  - developed countries made and enforced rules that kept developing countries from making certain products (for example, England - which had colonized India - outlawed the production of cloth in India, which meant Indians could grow cotton, but coud only buy cloth from England, which helped the English factories and economy)\n  - Developing countries mainly produce farm, mine and fishery products, and they have to buy industrial products to make a profit, but prices for farm, mine and fishery products declined in the late 20th century, so that people in developing countries had to spend more of their production on equipment from developed economies\n  - In recent decades, developed countries lent money at interest to developing countries, which then had to pay back the interest. Large loans encouraged corruption in the developing world, and as a result the developing countries didn't, well, develop much, and so they were less and less able to pay back their growing debts. Or, for that matter, to do anything else that required money.
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I would say "C" is the closest answer to the question. I believe that people adapt their way of living to the topography, climate, tradition, social pressures and any number of other factors. Do a little research on the Anasazi of the southwestern U.S. and see what factors may have lead to their demise.
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Here are some sites that may help you:\n\nhttp://www.answers.com/topic/colonization-of-africa\nhttp://www.hyperhistory.net/apwh/essays/comp/cw25colonizationafrica.htm\nhttp://www.yaleslavery.org/TownGown/coloniz.html
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I was a Canadian intern in Uganda, and was surprised at the differences between what I had been told about the country and what I learned when I got there.  The greatest things I learned were to be flexible and open to learning and challenges, let go of any ego, and let the local people teach you.  Asking many questions, I was open to meeting people and that took me further than a travel book ever could.\n\nMy readings and country orientation provided "essential" information on medications (all the meds are dangerous and fatal, they are expired drugs sent from North America and are not for human consumption), animals/pets (all animals have Rabies), culture shock (it can be unbearable) and Malaria (ALWAYS take your drugs).\n\nWhen I arrived I chose to learn as much as I could.  I lived in a non white neighbourhood, attended a non white church and learned to speak the local language.  I was surprised to meet the white people.  They lived in their own neighborhoods, and they warned me about the consquences of integration.  They complained about the Africans, and that there were so many of them.  The white people I met wanted to party with the other white people.  There was one other group of white people I met, and they had come to "help" the poor Africans.  When they realized that the Africans were doing very well (incredible amounts of knowledge, ability to identify and seek solutions to their problems), they decided they wanted to go back home to North America.\n\nBefore I left, I made sure I did the research.  I had a basic understanding of the language and culture (what you can get from a book and websites).  I got my shots, my medications and purchased climate appropriate clothing (be aware that linen and soccer shirts can give off the impression of wealth and can put you in danger), and got my visas and tickets.\n\nWhen I arrived, I got a cat (I never got Rabies), I initially took my Malaria medication (you decide how you feel about taking them, it's an ongoing debate) and I did get sick and have to go to the doctor who gave me medication (non lethal and not harmful as I had been told).  I did not have culture shock, but I had reverse culture shock or backpacker's blues (something I had heard nothing about, but it is the struggle you have in returning home).\n\nI hope this helps.  Take everything you hear with a grain of salt.  Be prepared and be open to everything.  You won't regret it.
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O.K.  good thing you clarified that!  So, taking in consideration your basis for the question, and although I have never been there, from what I have heard and read, you are probably right - at least about the fact that the parts of Africa under 'white rule' do seem to be quite a bit more progressive than those we see under 'black rule'.\n\nI do not believe, however, that this has anything to do with intellect.  I'm quite sure that it has much more to do with the wealth, which almost always accompanies power and control that surely came into Africa with the white people who now inhabit parts of the region.  \n\nAnd, I barely understand the politics of this country, much less know anything about what REALLY goes on in and around the Whitehouse, that is not told to us by the media. However, I have a hunch that pretty much everything that happens is a result of bribery,  blackmail, extortion, propaganda, and at the bottom of it all, who has the most money/power.  All around the world, the rich and powerful tend to get what they want, and anything that may or may not be left over goes to the rest of us common people - of any color in any land.\n\nAs I say, I don't know this for sure or anything, but are you so sure that Angola and Zimbabwe are really completely run by their own people?  Or maybe it just is made to appear that way.  I'm fairly sure that if there are resources there, and if the leaders of those countries are the true leaders (not "puppets", put in place by wealthy and powerful while people), then they would surely have taken advantage of them. Unless, they are being prevented from doing so by circumstances beyond their control.\n\nAnd just FYI, I'm not trying to stick up for or stand against any particular race.  I'm white, born in America - for better or worse.  I'm just writing from the perspective with which I see things.\n\nI dont' think that the present Iraqi "government" is really in control of Iraq.  I don't mean that they are having trouble with the civil war there that was not there before the US invasion, but that even if there weren't a civil war, that government is just an extention of George Bush, Rumsfeld, et al.  I only brought up Iraq to try to illustrate a concept that things aren't always the way they appear. And just because it appears that certain African countries are under 'black rule', that in reality, they probably aren't.  They probably answer to outsiders, and probably not by choice either.  Just like the Iraqi's.\n\nJust what I suspect, no proof....just my 2 cents.  Hope it helps?
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I refuse to pay for something that people I didn't know did 200 years ago. The people now alive should receive nothing... what harm was done them? The issue you mentioned in Namibia is totally different in that some of the victims of WWII are still alive or their immediate descendants. You list slavery as the reasons African nations are so poor.... check on the numbers of slaves that were actually taken from Africa.... it's much less than you think. The reason African nations are so poor is the lack of emphasis given to education then and now.
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I have seen lots of pictures, articals and clippings about Africa. it is sad to say that almost all of them portray africa as this dry, barren, land, where everyone is sick, and dying. while that may be the case for some locations, there are beautiful places in Africa, such as the Sarangiti, and around lake Victoria. (why did they not name the lake after someone in Africa? white people sometimes don't use their common sence.) If i could, i'd visit africa one of those days. i would like to see mount kilomanjaro, and the Sarangiti.
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that's a unique question... but Man started off in Africa, but migrated to the rest of the Earth.  When they got to Europe, the climate and environment changed the appearance of the Original man.   Why would you even want to know "how long did it take for people to change" ??  how would that help you?  why don't you ask why the Europeans would historically think they are better than Asians, Native Americans, and Africans in the world?  Or why any race would think they are superior and almost kill off a race and take --to that same land,--  another race they feel superior to?  Or ask why some white people hate the fact that their ancestors are from the continent they despise so much. damn, I got way off subject..
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Not surprising that the "gay problem" is almost negligible in asian countries, since homosexuality is punishable by death in most of these.  You rarely get true statistics from the closet. As for the African community, you need to go back to anthropology class.  There are a lot of African tribes where homosexuality is acutally encouraged, or openly accepted as part of the social climate.  In college we studied several of these communities - in one in particular, the right of passage for a boy to become a hunter or warrior is for him to drink the semen of the strongest male member of the tribe.  You think he drinks it from a champagne glass?   It is obviously a little bit of both - genetics and circumstance. Sexuality is as individual as fingerprints - no two people are truly identical in their proclivities.  Whose to say one is right and one is wrong? We're just different, as nature intends us to be.
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Was it "the journey of man"?  if not, read the book or get the dvd. Very interesting.\n\nBasically this scientist took dna samples from people around the globe and compared them.  with that info he found mutations in the dna which act as markers of where those people split from those who didnt have those markers.\n\nAccordingly if traced in reverse it leads to where we all came from, which is from one tribe that left africa about 50000 years ago.
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You really need more specifics in here to help you at all.  \n\nSo many things missing...  it depends on the culture, the colonizing culture, the area being colonized, and the time period...  get me more info and I might be able to help you out.
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why don't you research an african country on the internet? or go under Yahoo! Reference's encyclopedia and choose your own African country. Then after you find out the basics, research that particular country. You do know what the African countries are, right????
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One of the most common diseases in Africa is malaria, so there would be any number of ways to research that.  Also, I heard today on Ghanaian news that there has recently been a cholera outbreak in Accra.  There are any number of focuses you could choose.  You could work with child immunization (for polio or something similar), tuberculosis treatments, diabetes treatments, etc.  The field is wide open.
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You would need to summarize the points that you made regarding their art, history, religion and culture.\n\nYou did make some comparisons to other cultures of the same time period, and current cultures, right?  Or what influence these all had on their people and society?\n\nThus your conclusion should flow from these comparisons and/or influence summaries.\n\nGood luck!