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Monday, December 10, 2007

Hotel rwanda

Before this happened all the countries seemed to have a fine relation with Rwanda. But when Rwanda's need was dire, they turned their backs. The U.N people took out all the foreign nationals and went away. even the U.N left this shows how selfish we are. How are we different from animals? Do we actually deserve what we get? Is this what humanity has come to?

Thursday, December 6, 2007

The Scramble for Africa

France = Blue
Great Britain = Red
Germany=Black
Belgium=Yellow
Spain=Orange
Netherlands=Purple
Portugal=Green

In our scramble for Africa session it could be argued that Great Britain and France won. This because they had strategic land as well as lots of land.

The losers would be either Belgium or spain because they had very few strategic areas and very barely any squares of land.

I noticed that during the game we never thought of what Africans might want, we just got what we wanted. Just like that when imperialism occured in Africa no one cared what the Africans wanted. So the real winners were the Europeans and the real losers were the Africans!

Sunday, December 2, 2007

A Thought Provoking Step in Africa


The main visual elements are obviously the foot step and the shape of Africa. Also the parched land in the area of the footstep is a visual element.
The issue this picture represents is the effect of European imperialism on Africa. It has a negative attitude towards imperialism. The footstep in Europe's footprint. It shows that imperialism has left left a permanent mark on Africa. Up to this point the picture gives no view of imperialism. What makes it negative is the parched land inside the footprint. The parched land shows that the Europeans have taken every thing away from them. Their natural resources, traditions, and religions. As nothing is left behind the land is parched, barren, wasteland. The author also chose black as the color for Africa. This was to show the racist discrimination in Europe. Africa was called by the Europeans the dark land.
If I were to emphasize to meaning of this I would make more footprints with parched land to show that the effect was even worse.
But in my own view I would not agree with the message the picture conveys. Their were also some countries in Africa which experienced a positive side of imperialism. Like my research country, Tanzania which experienced a overall positive side of imperialism.