French West Africa

country's’ culture. Senegal once was part of the West African Empire of Ghana, Tekur, and Mali. The nation takes its name from the river that runs along its north-east borders, making the frontier with Mauritania and Mali. A poetic saying from the Wolof people states that the name derives from the local term Sunugal, meaning "our dugout canoe" (everyone is in the same boat). The Republic of Senegal became independent in 1960 after three hundred years of French colonial rule. The City of Dakar…

Cameron is a country on the west coast of Africa. It has a lot of different land such as mountains in the west, grasslands in the north, and tropical low lands in the south. Yaoundé Douala is the country's capital and it’s the largest city. Mountains and hills lie alone Cameroon’s western border, from Lake Chad in the north to mount Cameroon in the south near the coast. Mount Cameroon is 13,353it is the it is the country’s highest point. A forested plateau in central Cameroon separates a savanna…

a country in Africa that has a variety of landscapes. It has resources that are valuable to other countries. Cameroon consist of national parks, cities, beaches, a reserve, and a river. There is over 250 racial groups in Cameroon. This means that there is many different religions practiced. Many of the religions practiced are Christianity, Muslim, Catholics, Protestants, and some worship their ancestors. The diversity of this country can be broken up into three groups the south,west,and north.…

Cameroon Cameroon is a country located in the west of Africa. It shared boundaries with Nigeria, Chad, Equatorial Guinea, Central Africa Republic, and Gabon. Cameroon is made up of ten regions with the capital city known as Yaounde. Its population is estimated to be around twenty million. Climate in this country varies according to terrain, tropical climate is witnessed along the coast and semiarid and hot in the north (kwintessential, 2016). As a diverse society, Cameroon is made up of more…

Indian religion was more shifted than their governmental issues. IV. African Societies A. West Africa (Guinea) The greater part of the oppressed Africans that came to America started in West Africa, or Guinea. Upper Guinea had a culture that reflected contact with the Islamic Mediterranean locale, while Lower Guinea stayed less cosmopolitan. B. Bondage in West Africa Bondage existed in West Africa essentially as a method for aggregating grounds and riches, however after contact with…

Nigeria is in West Africa, along the eastern coast of the Gulf of Guinea and just north of the equator. On the west of Nigeria is Benin, on the north is Niger and Chad, and on the east is Cameroon. Nigeria covers an area of 356,669 square miles (923,768 square kilometers), or about twice the size of California. There are more than 250 ethnic tribes in Nigeria. The three most largest ethnic groups are Hausa, Yoruba, and Igbo (pronounced ee-bo). Some other smaller groups include Fulani, Ijaw,…

Because of this, there are 13 national languages spoken in Mali. The official being French, then Babara being the second most common. There are lots of children in Mali, almost 50% of the population, which in July of 2015 was 16,955,536, are children 5-14. Most of these children only go to school for 8 years and then have to drop out because…

The Gullahs, also referred to as the Geechee in some parts of the south, are West African slaves that were brought to the New World to work on the plantations in the lowcountry along the southeastern coast of the United States, from the Cape Fear River in North Carolina to the St. John 's River in Florida. This coastal region with its many barrier islands is separated from the mainland by creeks, rivers, and marshes. The islands were accessible only by boat until the first bridges were built…

the French territories they had big dreams of their country developing and becoming a major port area for goods. During the colonial years little effort was made to help develop the country socially or economically (SOURCE 2.) The countries location is located at the intersection of the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden. Djibouti is located in Northeastern Africa, also known as the Horn of Africa. The surrounding countries include Eritrea to the north, Somalia to the east, and Ethiopia to the west…

with two West african step sisters separated because of the slave trade in the mid 1700s. One line is sent to the deep south of the United States while the other remains in West Africa. This book challenges the ordinary thought process towards African and African American history as described in African History: A Very Short Introduction by John Parker and Richard Rathbone, “... the idea of Africa was initially fashioned not by Africans but by non-Africans, as a ‘paradigm of difference’. Africa,…