Baby Boomers, who consist of those born between 1946 and 1964, have seen a lot of things in their time, many which not only impacted their lives, but those of the generations that have followed. The Vietnam War The first Baby Boomers were born a year after the end of World War II. Although some ...
David Mandessi Diop (1927 – 1960) was a revolutionary African poet born in France but with parents of West African descent. His poems highlighted problems of Africa brought about by colonialism and gave a message to Africans to bring about change and freedom. He was known for his involvement in the negritude movement in France, ...
Significant differences in historical development led to the modern status of women in the three nations of Tunisia, Algeria, and Morocco.The Maghreb cultures form patrilineal kin-based societies, with state formation and the tribal system intricately linked. The different power relationships between tribes and the political state thus greatly influenced the development of modern family law. ...
Frantz Fanon and Aime Cesaire both defined and explained colonialism and decolonization from a political, philosophical, historical, and socio-cultural perspective. Both authors wrote for the colonized, Fanon in Wretched of the Earth (1963) and Cesaire in Discourse on Colonialism (1972). Fanon and Cesaire aimed to define colonialism and its constructs, the psychology of colonialism and ...