The Memory of Fidel Castro The 20th century was the era of the dictator. Around the world, dictators rose and affected millions of lives for better and for much worse. In 2016 Fidel Castro, the communist dictator, passed away and left behind a controversial legacy. Castro's regime leaves behind a polarized memory split between people who him and heroify him. Some people view him as a great liberator of Cuba and some consider him a ruthless oppressor of his dissenters. Cuba is an anomaly among
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A developing country, also called a less-developed country, is a nation with a low living standard, undeveloped industrial base, and low Human Development Index relative to other countries. Definition Kofi Annan, former Secretary General of the United Nations, defined a developed country as follows. "A developed country is one that allows all its citizens to enjoy a free and healthy life in a safe environment." But according to the United Nations Statistics Division, And it notes that
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banned slavery in 1807, with the active assistance of West African Christians and former slaves like Olaudah Equiano, and her attitude towards Africa was at least partly shaped by her abhorrence of the slave trade. Livingstone sounded an important call for a worldwide crusade to open up Africa. A new slave trade, organized by Swahili and Arabs in East Africa, was eating out the heart of the Continent and Livingstone called for its abolition through the 3 C’s mentioned above. Another famous figure around
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Stokely Carmichael, the then-infamous Black Panther leader, had taken note of the crisis in Africa long before the U.S. government. Groups such as the African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde (PAIGC), a successful guerilla movement in Eastern Africa, became a symbol of pride for for some African Americans. The escalation of the Vietnam War had brought to light domestic racial inequities. The disproportionate number of young African American men were killed in the war followed by
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and globally transformative effects, as the exchange of New and Old World crops – these interactions were instrumental in the demographic and political transformations that made the modern world possible . The periods of European colonialism and imperialism offer clear examples of ‘peripheralisation’ processes, in which countries were brought into the sphere of European capitalism based on the needs of the imperial centres – many international economic and political treaties were unequal as they were
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indirect rule in both theory and in practice. Ultimately, indirect rule was hopelessly flawed. In 1922, F.D. Lugard, a colonial officer in Uganda and later Nigeria who came up with the idea of using indirect rule in Africa, published a book titled Dual Mandate in Tropical Africa. In it, he advocated leaving management of African colonies to Africans, subject to the laws of policies of the British colonial staff. He took this position in part because he believed that European culture could not
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being the little man in the situation. The idea that the rest of the world needed saving by the British ideas probably made the idea that the Queen would ever kneel to an African chief laughable. The Queen would have been a familiar source of imperialism because she was the face that others saw to make the decisions. She was far and wide the ruler and the symbol of authority. Aside from the obvious title, the Queen was depicted
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(Germany, Austria-Hungary, later joined by Bulgaria and the OttomanEmpire), and the Allies (Great Britain, France, Russia, later joined by Japan, Italy, and theUnited States).Another factor that increased the rivalry in Europe was imperialism. Before World War 1,Africa and parts of Asia were areas of conflict between the European countries. This was because of the raw materials these areas could provide. The
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ABRIDGED GIVING WINGS TO WORLD ECONOMIC RECOVERY THROUGH MEDIA AND COMMUNICATION INNOVATIONS. BY DR ISAH MOMOH, 16 AUGUST, 2011 Tels: 234 803 196 1363; 802 325 8362; 809 569 3433 Email: imomoh@smc.edu.ng; isahmomoh3@yahoo.com; isahmomoh@gmail.com. School of Media and Communication (SMC) Pan African University, 2 Ahmed Onibudo Street, Victoria Island, Lagos, Nigeria Tels: 01 4616170-2; 2711617-20 Email: info@smc.edu.ng
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their descendants became the victims of a regular pattern of discrimination and segregation. The period of the Renaissance and Reformation was also the time when Europeans were coming into increasing contact with people of darker skin-color in Africa, Asia, and the Americas and were making conclusions about them. The reasoning for enslaving Africans was that they were unconverted and unbelievers of God, associated between darkness and evil but slave traders and slave owners sometimes took a passage
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