goWe come from the ghettoTo get higherWith the Magicians
There is a lot of mention of coming from the ghetto which means poor places and there is no shortcut to being successful. This means that the people in this video are preaching to become successful through hard work and dedication. Also they should not give up.
It's not only for the upper classWe come from Anoumabo
This is saying that everyone can have fun. Not only the upper class the poor can also have a good time listening to music and dancing. Anoumabo was a place that was hit bad during the decolonization process, so they probably are not doing great.
Feel the magic in the air,go, go, goPut your hands in the airgo, go, go
This song already seems much more upbeat than the other song.
I have heard children speak to their fathers, Lying on a carpet in a coffin, ready to be buried. They said ‘Dad, oh dad, so soonYou have parted so soon and left us as orphans. What will become of us without you, dad?Oh dad, we will miss you!
This makes me think that the majority of the men who have to perform hard manual labor will die at an early age before they are able to make a impression on their children.
You have to build your future, it will be all right When you have nothing, they disregard you. But tomorrow, when you succeed,
This is saying they must succeed for their race. The poor must succeed or else there will be no one else who will help them out of their situation.
You’re a boy, so have courage, But courage doesn’t mean vengeance, But to suffer to get by.
I am not sure if i should take this in the literal way of someone telling young men that they do not need to be courageous and cause damage to something, or if they are saying that being courageous is just getting by.
We have not forgotten that the law was never the same for the white and the black, that it was lenient to the ones, and cruel and inhuman to the others.
This shows that the black people knew that the world was highly favoring the whites and they know that if they want to accomplish anything they have to do it themselves without non-africa help.
We have experienced forced labour in exchange for pay that did not allow us to satisfy our hunger, to clothe ourselves, to have decent lodgings or to bring up our children as dearly loved ones.
This is the main reason that they fought the colonies. The people of the Congo worked very hard just to remain in extreme poverty while the people in Europe were living lavishly.
Although this independence of the Congo is being proclaimed today by agreement with Belgium, an amicable country, with which we are on equal terms, no Congolese will ever forget that independence was won in struggle, a persevering and inspired struggle carried on from day to day, a struggle, in which we were undaunted by privation or suffering and stinted neither strength nor blood.
This gives a good example of the mindsets of the people of the Congo at this time. They are going to be a free state again, but only because they fought and earned the right to be free.
Such a peace should enable all men to traverse the high seas and oceans without hindrance.
This is really nice that they will be able to travel the oceans and such. However at this time most of the world has been discovered and Africa's economic power has been diminished to almost nothing.
After the final destruction of Nazi tyranny, they hope to see established a peace which will afford to all nations the means of dwelling in safety within their own boundaries, and which will afford assurance that all the men in all the lands may live out their lives in freedom from fear and want.
I am not really sure how you assure a life without freedom or want. Also some parts of Africa have allied themselves with the Nazi's, will they be given the same freedom?
They respect the right of all peoples to choose the form of Government under which they will live; and they wish to see sovereign rights and self-government restored to those who have been forcibly deprived of them.
This is probably something hard to choose after not being allowed to have much say in how anything was run in awhile.I can imagine how hard it would be to just be given the right to create their own government without any form of help.
Representatives of the World I have come toGeneva to discharge in your midst the most painful of the duties of the head of a State. What reply shall I have to take back to my people?
This is a truly powerful appeal to the United Nations. Instead of helping to stop the Italians that are killing mass amounts of people unlawfully, they are choosing to possibly break up the country of Ethiopia, which are a member of the United Nations. It really shows the United Nations lack of respect for the continent of Africa. Especially the parts that are struggling against European powers for control of their countries
d. The deadly rain that fell from the aircraft made all those whom it touched fly shrieking with pain. All those who drank the poisoned water or ate the infected food also succumbed in dreadful suffe
Now that the Italians are actually attacking the people who they are trying to control with force like this it is crazy to think about. I would think that they would have tried some sort of peace treaty before they tried to kill all the people who have been supplying them with the resources they needed.
At the beginning, towards the end of 1935, Italian aircraft hurled upon my armies bombs of tear-gas. Their effects were but slight. The soldiers learned to scatter, waiting until the wind had rapidly dispersed the poisonous gases. The Italian aircraft then resorted to mustard gas. Barrels of liquid were hurled upon armed groups. But this means also was not effective; the liquid affected only a few soldiers, and barrels upon the ground were themselves a warning to troops and to the population of the danger...
This is showing that the colonizers will use any means necessary to keep their power over the African people. Right now, apparently the effects are not bad, but the threat of chemical warfare is not legal in the world and should be punishable by whatever national law is being enforced at this time like the United Nations or NATO.
s. If then will not the judge of all the earth do right by the manner of men. The wake up our leaders of Nigeria.
The author gives all of these bad things that have happened to the people of Nigeria and now he is calling on the leaders to do something about it. Most likely some sort of war effort.
paid to them. He sees that the children of our benefactors do not observe the gospel preached in olden times back to the land today.
They are noticing all the changes that the Europeans forced upon them even though the Europeans said they would do no such thing. The people's culture and religious views definitely have changed.
. He sees that producers are not receiving their right dues from the fruit of their labor and hard t
People are not getting paid well for the extremely hard work that they are doing to bring in their crop. When things like that happen often times it gets so bad that the producers stop producing because they don't have the money to do so, which will kill trade.
en. Intimidation against villages, families, and individuals was common. Sometimes young men were simply caught and turned over to recruiters. The similarities with enslavement were not lost on the victims.
The French are doing something worse here than slavery. They are pretty much enslaving people and forcing them to fight in a war which i imagine has to be the most gruesome task that someone can be asked to do.
n. But, from Toma, going towards Yaba, Biba, Da, Tougan and the whole Mossi region, the people didn’t agree with the idea of resisting Whites with force.
This would be by far the best time to attack the whites. I do not know if they know how devastated all the white people of the world are who are fighting in a world war, but more rebellion would make the white people not want to go to Africa anymore to get soldiers for the war. Especially if their soldiers are dying trying to get less qualified soldiers.
French defeated the challenge witha force of five thousand soldiers, largely tirailleursfrom other parts of Africa. With its machine guns and cannons, this was the largest colonial force ever marshaled in French West Africa; the campaign is considered the last phase of conquest and occupation.
This is definitely not what the French wanted to do. They already were fighting in their own homeland. This uprising must have really hurt them even though they were able to keep control of the territory.
Not long after, another White arrived from Kinshasa: his name was Mpaka. The White Mpaka begged Wese in these terms: “Stop the war. Accept the harvesting of rubber, which we will buy.”
So this is how the eventual horrible treatment of the people of the Congo happened. There was a huge war after a long period in which they were fighting other groups. They were so weakened that they gave up thinking they could have a decent life together. The people have no clue what hardships are ahead of them.
The villagers accepted for fear of war. But they dreaded Wese for fear that he would kill them.
I do not really understand the events that led directly up to this event, but it must have been something more than a couple white people dieing that started this harvesting of rubber.
When forest people did not produce enough to fulfill European demands, companies used violence against them, so much so that their product became known as “Red Rubber.” Amputated hands were collected from corpses to keep track of the body count. Sometimes they were cut off living people.
This is horrible. People are getting their hands cut off while they are alive, and this should be horribly illegal. People are also dying so fast that they need to keep track of them by cutting off their hands. This is not only not ethical at all and the people doing this should be put in jail for life, this is also not a good way to keep track of people if they are also cutting off hands as a "punishment".
As had the king of Buganda, the ruler of the Herero people in Namibia agreed to European “protection,” in this case from the Germans, who had founded the colony of South West Africa in 1884.
Up until this point I had no idea why the West Africans were signing a treaty. I thought it had something to do with the British taking control of the land. I had no idea that the main reason they wanted to make the treaty was because of the fact that they were looking for protection from other entities.
Then the King told someone to sign it for him. I would not have this, and insisted on his making a mark. He did it with a bad grace, just dashing the pen at the paper and making a blot, but I made him go at it again and make a cross, and on the 2ndcopy he made a proper cross
The kind in this instance is obviously showing that he is not taking the treaty at all seriously and does not intend to be true to his word. I imagine the king as being a jerk from reading this and other statements in the passage.
ng. Its main provision was religious toleration for both sides, I believ
This sentence in my mind makes me think of Article 6 and how it promises that will be no forced conversion of religion on the African side. The British can not force them to become Catholic or any other the religion the British followed.
Physically tough, he survived health problems, extreme and long treks, and a mauling by a lion.
For these reasons about how tough he was and other reasons about how he neglected his own family so that he can befriend the people of Africa. This truly makes me believe that David Livingstone was such a good man . He understood what was going on in Africa to be inhumane and decided to do something about the mistreatment of Africans because he knew that no one else would go to the lengths that he did to help.
I must confess that the majority of the civilians who applied for situations were madmen,
Some of the stories that were told about some of the applications are disturbing and idiotic. I can't imagine that people seriously thought of Africa as such a crazy place that they should take a flying ship or a hot air balloon to get there.
The inhabitants of Harar live well. The best meat, as in Abyssinia, is beef: it rather resembled, however, in the dry season whenI ate it, the lean and stringy sirloins of Old England in Hogarth's days. A hundred and twenty chickens, or sixty-six full-grown fowls, may be purchased
This paragraph reminds me about the article that we read about how to write about Africa. The article taught us to talk about African cuisine like this. I do not really know why the article goes into so much detail about these statements and the rest of the paragraph.
May God help us to victoryWith His benevolence there will be good fortune. 22. And now my poem of requests is finishedWith His benevolence there will be good fortune. 23. May God pour blessings on the ProphetAnd his relatives, and all his Followers
This poem is made to request the essentials of life and to request victory in jihad. It seems as though they want everyone to convert to their religion so that everyone will get the blessings of god and everyone will in term be saved.
Let us call upon God, O friendsTo look upon us and bless us with rain.
This line of the poem is neat in my mind. These people come from areas in which rain is not very plentiful so they call for rain, but after the poem calls for rain, the poem then goes into talking about the beating of the drums in calling jihad. I believe jihad is calling for holly war. So for Asma'u to call for both life and holly war in the same poem, i get the sense that holly war is almost as important to her as life itself..
Thereafter the poems were translated and published. This poem, originally published as “Prayer for Rain,” was written in
One thing to keep in mind is that whenever there is a poem translated across language and religion boarders, the translation usually does not have the same exact meanings. We know this is definitely the case in this situation because the article says that the meaning of verse 20, is unclear because of an undecipherable word.
My husbandand I fled before them. We sought shelter with different chiefs, and had to beg or we should have starved. Not until the enemy had left the country could we return to Chitete, build up the ruined huts, and, when the rains came, till the fields.
It wows me that these people were running for their lives and then they eventually became the chief and wife of the chief of their group. They came back to their area after to rebuild everything in their hardships also.
us. They attacked our village, shot into it with their guns, hurled their spears at us, and set fire to the huts. I was taken captive in the battleand dragged off to Inamwanga with many other women and children. I had one daughter with me, my tenth child, but she was separated from me, and I never saw her again from that day to this. Perhaps Chief Mkoma sacrificed her at the grave of his ancestors, when he prayed for rain that his land might not be visited by famine.
This paragraph shows us how horrible the lives of people who lived in there village were. It also says that the only person with her that she was close to was her 10th child. Another important point is the fact that her captures were violent enough to her people especially to her bloodline that the chief would have her daughter sacrificed .
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