A long and favored mantra of the African American community has been “that which doesn’t destroy you tends only to makes you stronger”. Using these as bywords, the struggle to survive and prosper in the United States has not always been an easy road traveled by African Americans . From surviving the Middle Passage, to […]
Apartheid in South Africa caused many problems for the Africans. Soweto was affected by Apartheid in the hardest ways that can be imagined. Soweto is an urban area south west of Johannesburg. Soweto stared out as township for Africans that were increasingly being evicted. The Bantu Education started causing problems for the Afrikaans. Bantu Education […]
The Barefoot College is located in a remote village called Tilonia in the Ajmer district of Rajasthan. This is a voluntary organization which was set up in the year 1972 by Shri Bunker Roy. In the beginning, it focussed mainly on the issues of drinking water in a nearby block called Kishangarh. At that time […]
Juan Diego was born in 1474 A.D. in Cuauhtitlan. Not much is known about Juan Diego’s early life up until he was baptized. When Juan Diego was fifty he was baptized by a Franciscan missionary named Fr. Peter da Gand (The Holy See). He was baptized along with his wife Maria Lucia, and his uncle […]
Victor Emmanuel II king of Sardinia was affirmed King of Italy in 1861 when the country turned into a nation-state. The 1930s was a tense period for the peace which was achieved in 1919. This was the time when Benito Mussolini established his fascist party. A crucial factor during this period and which this assignment […]
Canada has provided a home for settlers ever since the first inhabitants arrived on the continent. Each of these groups of settlers had contributed to the rise of the country in several ways. Among the many inhabitants throughout the history of Canada, Canadian Indians had one of the greatest influence on the country’s economy and […]
When British became the rulers of India in 1856, Muslims got Shattered in pieces. In 1857, Muslims took part in Independence War in their hope of reviving the Mughal empire. As a matter of fact, it could not be avoided that it was a mutiny not a war in which Muslims took part. As a […]
Black Power was a political movement among black Americans in the late sixties and early seventies. Black Power emphasized the expression of a new racial consciousness among blacks in the United States. It means that black people started to bond together so they could protect there own welfare and to obtain autonomy to a certain […]