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The aim of the study "African marriages: for love or for money" is to identify the main reason behind the various marriage arrangements practiced in africa and whether they are based on money or love.... Marriages based on emotional reasons are becoming popular in africa due to the advent of civilization, which allows partners to marry purely because they are in love....
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The paper "Ethnicity and Religion in Political Leadership in africa" states that ethnicity and religion at times influence politics negatively.... thnicity and religion dominate most political parties in africa.... This happened after the 1993 military coup that made ethnic groups of I jaws, Yoruba's, Igbo's, Tiv's Edo's and Fulani to form a party (Odinga web)A religion difference, especially Islam and Christianity, determine political leadership in africa....
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he following were major short comings of Christianity in Africa during the pre-colonial period; despite wide spread of Christianity in African Continent the traditional beliefs of supernatural powers still existed on their practices (Shelley, 1995).... A major challenge which was faced by… This was also witnessed during the embassy bombings in africa and World Trade Centre as well as Pentagon in the United States of America.... Even though there were some problems Lecturer Paper Synopsis The paper addresses the three major religions in africa that is Islamic, Christianity and Traditionalism....
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This made it easy to accept Christianity in Africa.... This paper will examine religion in the African Reaction Paper to Azevedo: Religion in africa Synopsis Religion plays an intricate role in the co-existence of people in the world, today.... Missionaries could access the most remote areas in africa which helped convert a large number of Africans (Azevedo 405).... He was ordained a priest and later a cardinal in africa after his time in Rome and Milan....
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ost of the Europeans powers wanted to convert African to Christianity and all those who had been converted to Muslim by the Arabs who had visited Africa in the early 15th century the also knew Africa as a ‘dark' continent where no religion existed they had no information that Africans had their own traditions and believes, they only wanted to introduce Christianity so as to compete with Muslims and Arabs in africa and other parts of the world.... Scramble for africa was the begging of colonization of the African continents at large the by European powers this was characterized by the following factors; political, economic and social factors....
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Gender plays a significant role in regard to the social construction of witchcraft in the history of Early-Modern Europe and other parts of the world such as, Sub-Saharan africa.... Most cases related to witchcraft, often targets women than men, suspected of witchcraft.... This target… Their views mainly focuses on their roles, vulnerabilities and the inferior treatment in a society dominated by men....
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Thereafter, the European powers struggled to create a sphere of influence for themselves in africa.... As consequence, they needed to expand their market in africa.... The scramble for africa, also known as race for africa was the invasion, occupation and colonization, and later annexation of africa by European powers, during the late 19th century.... his… Before the scramble, that is 1880s, only small part of africa was under European rule....
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The Lemba is a historical cult of trade, marriage relations as well as healing which came into being in the mid-seventeenth century in the triangular region that extends from the Atlantic coast to the Malebo Pool which presently is in the cities of Brazzaville and Kinshasa, from… The Mpumbu market that is located on the hilltop and overlooks the Malebo Pool was the most western end point of the Riverian trade network (Janzen, 1982)....
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