Looking at my grandfather’s generation, I perceive a group that is communal and determined having survived the Second World War and colonization but still made something of their lives. My grandfather believes that this generation is vastly different from his generation, and I can see why after our conversation. To...

The existence of human beings is not a particularly simple question. It engages curiosity, wonder, imagination and other forms of questions and thoughts of the human mind. Thinking the existence of the self-represents a big part of life since it is a question that hides among the common questions: What...

Trifles (1916), by Susan Glaspell, is a play that illustrates the disparity between the attitudes of men and women. Trifles highlights what Glaspell believes to be emotional and intellectual superiority of women over men. This superiority is based upon how the men and women react differently to the discoveries of...

The excerpt “Kwame Nkrumah at the Congress of Africanists” form the speech Africanism and Culture goes into great detail of how African history is hidden because it has been made into an extension of European history. African history is not something in which is seen as being able to exist...

Since the late days of the slave trade era, Western cultures have played an influential role in the development of Africa. While generations of native Africans have upheld their own cultures, these cultures have changed over time. Throughout a significant portion of the twentieth century. Much of Africa was colonized...