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By Sampson i. Onwuka Joseph E. Harris, with his Ph.D in ‘Africans and Their History’, is a book of great importance concerning Africans and their academic environment. Part of the nomenclature for this reading is a background on the formative years of African history -- and in many ways than one, the current history of Africa is a footnote to the European adventures in Africa. Some of these adventurers were research scientists and working members of major clubs in Europe and they brought with them their own discipline which influenced their attitude towards understanding Africa. These disciplines - especially historical disciplines with background to world history and perhaps religion were conduits for world history and narrative on African history through their devotion, through the bible for instance whose interpretation of world history began with the stories of Eden, Adam and Eve, Abel and Cain, leading to major departures from the narrow circle of Eden and much ...

Samuel Eliot Morison’s ‘Admiral of the Sea’

By Sampson I. Onwuka Samuel Eliot Morison’s ‘Admiral of the Sea’ received worthy and even won a Pulitzer Prize for 1942. The man was a Harvard professor for almost 40 years, retiring as an Emeritus in history, particularly Spanish history. There are reasons why we have to worry about the man’s book ‘Admiral of the Sea’, which was the story of Christopher Columbus and his discovery of New lands. The book made a good argument about the discovery of America to the interest of Columbus, as if the book was a defense of the man’s achievements.   But the problem with such book and such Authority is that they are very likely to influence a whole generation of the world historians and will also influence students by mere synthesis passed on to them. After reading through the book the second time, I began to see several cracks in the man’s history. In fact, by my familiarity of Venetian history and the History of Milan, I can easily indicate that the Cristoforo Columbu...

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Sampson Onwuka Harry L. Hopkins reflecting the politics of Social Welfare mentioned in his classic book 'Spending to Save; 36, that a certain John P. HOGAN who was a consulting engineer, that "...in 1933 that a $3, 000, 000, 000 public works program would have employed between 1, 500, 000 to 2, 000, 000 workers a year, that to support them in idleness was costing $750, 000, 000 a year, and that interest charges on a $3, 000, 000, 000 program were only $150, 000, 000 a year. The stimulus of such a program, he felt, would have proved a good investment" Considering what now transpires as Black business or economics, the books of interest such as, the American Millstone; the examination of a nation’s Permanent under-class by Ovie Carter (1975), where he examined the lives of Blacks in Chicago and the hard choice between Welfare and underprivileged minimum wage jobs with increasingly diminishing hours, Carter worked his miracle in translating...