CULTURES and CONTEXTS: THE AFRICAN DIASPORA

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Requirements: 4 pages

CULTURES and CONTEXTS: THE AFRICAN DIASPORA

Assignment 1

Write a 4-5pp (pages) response (double-spaced, 12-point font) to the question below. Your reply should be your own analysis, with an absolute minimum of quotes – if they appear at all. Submit the paper AS A WORD DOCUMENT and Chicago citation style

A major premise of the first three weeks of the course is that antiquity and authoritative documents constitute important contexts for understanding the early global African experience.

Sources

Kebra Negast

Niane, Sundiata: An Epic of Old Mali

William Leo Hansberry, African and Africans as Seen by Classical Writers (excerpts)

Alexander Popovi’c, The Revolt of African Slaves in Iraq in the 3rd/9th Century (excerpts)

Reversing sail Michael Gomez pg 1-60

“The Cross and the Crescent,” the second episode of the documentary series, Africa’s Great Civilizations.

In conjunction with the lectures, we have explored

ancient Egyptian-Nubian relations, the Graeco-Roman world, and Ethiopia

Africans in the Bible

the classical Islamic world, the Persian Gulf, and the Indian subcontinent

early West and East Africa

In these places and periods, we have discussed the roles of Africans in dynastic rule, imperial conquest, commerce, migration, cultural and religious exchanges, slavery, etc.

Question: craft an argumentative essay that responds to the following characterization of the early African global experience:

At this point we leave Africa, not to mention it again. For it is no historical part of the World; it has no movement or development to exhibit. Historical movements in it — that is in its northern part — belong to the Asiatic or European World. Carthage displayed there an important transitionary phase of civilization; but, as a Phoenician colony, it belongs to Asia. Egypt will be considered in reference to the passage of the human mind from its Eastern to its Western phase, but it does not belong to the African Spirit. What we properly understand by Africa, is the Unhistorical, Undeveloped Spirit, still involved in the conditions of mere nature, and which had to be presented here only as on the threshold of the World’s History. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (d. 1831), German philosopher.

Taking into consideration all of the required readings (and only those readings), the lectures, and the documentary, craft an argumentative essay that responds to the following characterization of the early African global experience:

Outline

a thesis statement within the first or second paragraph, specifying your main argument and any subsidiary points (if there are any subsidiary points)

an overview, also within the first or second paragraph, summarizing how the rest of the paper marshals the evidence to support the thesis

a conclusion, summarizing the thesis and its support