Essays on French Colony

McKissack P C & Mckissac F (1995) “ The Royal Kingdoms of Ghana, Mali and Songhay: Life in Medieval Africa” and The Gale Group Inc (2003) “Middle Passage”. Dictionary of American History In the first article by the McKissacks, the authors illuminate important aspects of the African American heritage by introducing three main kingdoms of medieval Africa. Songhay, Mali and Ghana were the main countries. Based on contemporaneous accounts, folklore and modern scholarly research, the authors’ discussions covers the customs, people, political history and origins of these civilizations. The authors provide insightful information about the world history and also Africans particularly ...

Introduction

The 18th century is one of the most significant years in the history of man especially with regard to slave trade and slavery. This is because in its last stages, the world experienced two of the most renowned and successful anti-colonial revolutions against slave trade both in Latin America as well as in the Caribbean. The first, which was the revolution against Latin American slavery culminated in 1783. Nine years later, the world witnessed a second Haitian revolution which commenced with massive insurrection of slaves in the region in 1791, culminating with the first of slavery abolitions in French ...

A journey through the history ...

The Algerian War – A background

The war started by France in order to maintain her colonies in Algeria in the Early 1950’s had a disastrous end in 1962, this had a great impact on both France and Algeria in terms of political and social environment and there were lot of activities that happened during this period made a history Martin Windrow, Mike Chappell (1997, 41-48).

The primary impact was on the Military Troops and Civilians of both Algeria and France, this was responsible to destroy the Fourth Republic, and decisively transformed French constitution, divided the French army and politics fir ...

The idea of an armed, righteous revolution to usurp the unjust rulers of a land is something not reserved only for the American War for Revolution; it is the story of how many countries came to be, most certainly during that time period. At that time, a great many countries fought for freedom, using the American precedent to spur themselves to action. The French Revolution, also occurring during the late 1700s, was inspired greatly by the American Revolution, armed leftist groups assaulting the aristocracy in favor of the Enlightenment. One revolution which is often ignored or deemphasized during this time, however, ...

Ancient Mali

Arguably, the ancient empire of Mali took over after the fall of Ghana Empire around 1240AD. Certainly, the first capital in the Mali Empire was Djeriba, Niani, and Mali respectively. Perhaps, the powerful kingdom began to lose its influence and power in the course of 16th century. The ancient Mali was ruled by one of the greatest rulers, such as Sakura, Sundiata, Maghan, Musa, and Maria Jata (Strickland & Lemoine 116). Its leaders together with traders established powerful trade links in the region. Ancient Mali dominated the Sahel region because of its premeditated approach for controlling and conducting trade in ...