Essays on Disunity

Introduction

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The African Experience, The Healers

The novel the healers, showcases major factors that have certain effects on the survival and destruction of the African community in the 19th century. According to the author, the factors that contributed to the potential destruction and survival of the African continent are; disunity and fragmentation as well as efforts put in place to consolidate individuals in this empire. These factors have been well illustrated by the characters in the novel and the severe effects they had in the Asante empire. These factors are seen to also affect Africa in the 21st Century. The writer has also made extensive ...

Notably, the Arab World consists of around 385 million people living in 22 countries stretching from the Atlantic coast of Morocco to the Arabian Sea (“Data; Arab World”). Ninety percent of the population in the Arab world belong to Islamic religion, while the remaining ten percent belong to other religions, for example, Christian and Jewish religions. The idea of unifying the Arab nations started with the formation of the Arab League in 1945. Most Arab states gained their independence from British and French colonialists in this era. The Arab League allowed the independent states to maintain their sovereignty as ...

Looking at the disunity of the Caribbean region, I could not help but wonder whether the cultures of the inhabitants of the area have anything to do with the problem. Just as there are many different communities in the region, so are the diverse cultures. To aggravate the problem, the people in the Caribbean are not ready to accept change. They seem to value what they term as their sovereignty. As each group seeks to keep its sovereignty, it so happens that there is no room for unity. The situation is so bad that even in some unified countries ...

In a society, religion has various harmful effects. Religion is distinctively armed against any force that might bring to an end its absurdity and rebuff of reality. Religion may act as means of giving individuals certainty in life; however, the certainty may conflict with open-mindedness and critical thinking. Since inception, religion has been a force behind authoritarianism, control, and repression.

Religion tends to harm society in numbers of ways. First, religion acts as a catalyst towards, disunity, oppression, and persecution within and among societies. Religions create disunity within and among the societies because the solidarity of one community may frequently condemn another ...