This 15 year old girl, who was deemed powerless by her community and classmates showed that even the smallest spark
In the mid 1300s, West African kingdoms started gaining more reigns and power. The main three kingdoms of West Africa were Ghana, Mali, and the Songhai empire. The vast expanse of the Sahara desert impacted the change from complexity to prosperity. The kingdoms of West Africa became so prosperous from their consistent incline of gain. Western African kingdoms gained their trade with the help of Mansa Musa, geographical and cultural aspects, and access to natural resources.
The patriarchal society of West Africa during the late nineteenth century led to an alliance between British and African men who sought to oppress women in order to gain more power for themselves, believing that men were ultimately superior leaders than women. Even when some women like Abina found the courage to defend themselves, their voices were rarely believed. In Abina’s case, a jury of elite men were assigned to help decide her master’s fate rather than assigning a diverse group that contained women, too. Not including any women in the jury points to the bias of elite men only trusting other elite men. Davis even stated that to be on the jury, “above all, you must be a man.”
In Kingdom Triangle, J.P. Moreland brings forth sobering yet very prevalent issues that have arisen within the western world. Moreland brings forth the issues of naturalism, postmodern relativism with the downfall of authentic drama and couples it biblical evidence and truth to chart the way out of the crisis of the modern day and age. These thin world views (worldviews that seem to have value but after investigation will lead to an empty life) are a fuel on the fire that is the empty self and the epidemic that is depression today. Through repairing the mind, soul, and spirits power the current generation can be set on a track that will not lead to an empty-self epidemic. Through thin worldviews, such postmodernism, people will only experience a life that is empty and without meaning, only through a thick world view will people find meaning and real authentic drama in their lives.
And in Africa, it seems, we are back to the days before the emergence of civilization. If you want to live you have to fight for it; you have to kill animals if you want any nourishment. And if you want to attract the opposite sex as a male, you have to show courage. And this is where Francis Macomber fails.
Robert Wood traveled to Uganda in search of how the AIDS crisis had effected the men and women in the town of Bwaise. In his book AIDS and Masculinity in the African City: Privilege, Inequality, and Modern Manhood, he found that this crisis along with growing women’s economic opportunities have posed a threat on men’s sense of masculinity. These men are experiencing an identity crisis within their life because ideals in their work, authority, and sexuality are beginning to shift. This threat to a man’s masculinity is not only in Bwaise, but also in America. Gender equality and feminism have been on the rise and some men have felt threated by it for the same reason the Bwaise men feel threatened; it takes away their power and masculinity.
Also women in Mali were relied on to worship their leaders and gave them the right to have friends with other people besides the men in their
In Sexual Politics: African Americans, Gender, and the New Racism Patricia Hill Collins offers historical views that explain how the interconnectedness of race, gender and sexuality has influenced what she refers to as “sexual politics”. She analyzes how the ideologies of sexual politics have created a “new racism” which Collins gives extensive historical references that offer valid explanations of how enslavement and colonization of African Americans in the United States produced the legacy of racism that continues in this post-civil rights era. The racist ideologies established about people of African descent laid the foundation for capitalism that involved European hegemony for the control of natural resources around the world, in particular
Arranged marriage is a controversial practice in many cultures around the world. However, studies have found that roughly 85 percent of Indians prefer to engage in this tradition, and have a higher rate of marrital success than a marriage based on personal choice. (Dholakia, 4) Yet, even considering these statistics, it remains a concept that is met with dissapproval, thought to be archaic and demeaning to those involved. Chittra Banerjee Divakaruni’s short story Clothes depicts a young woman transition, from being obliged to follow this cultural norm, and the shifts in her mentality throughout this process. It is not unreasonable for the reader to view the protagonist, Sumita, to be a victim of this presumably inhumane practice.
She wants her daughter to walk and act a certain way. She even teaches her how to talk to men so, they won’t assume that she is promiscuous. In “Girl,” there is different themes throughout the novel but the main one has to do with female sexuality. How a women should act and be seen as respectable.
The girl is the only fully outlined and defined form in the piece, which serves to contrast her as a concrete
