We may look at community in two senses, one geographic and the other moral. The geographic sense of community, which happens to be what most people generally have in mind when they use the term, refers to a neighbourhood, village, small town, or specific locality. Members of a community in the geographic sense may share…
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Our culture and national identity
Our country, Ghana is a multi ethnic, multilingual and multicultural state: it contains many ethnic groups, many languages and therefore, many cultures. There are several problems generated by the ethnically and culturally plural structure of our nation. One problem is how to weld the consistent ethnic groups into a new,certainly, larger socio-political association for the…
Trans-Saharan Slave Trade
Learning Objective: To analyze the development of the slave trade across the Sahara. What is the trans-Saharan slave trade? The trans-Saharan slave trade involved trade in slaves across the Sahara, especially between West Africa and the Muslim world to the north. This slave trade formed part of the trans-Saharan trade, the wider…