Robert Harms Africa in Global History analysis

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read those readings and response those questions.

125-300 words

  • Type of source. What genre of writing is this? Who was the intended
    audience? Where would it have originally appeared?
  • Contextualize. What information do you have at your disposal that would help
    you better understand the document? What do you know about the author?
    What do you know about the society in which it was written? Identify at least
    time and place.
  • Identify the author’s or central subjects and their main goals. What ideas is the
    author conveying with his//her writing? What parts stood for you? How did
    the author hope his/her audience would think/feel with his/her ideas?
  • Analyze the author’s rhetorical strategies. What methods did the author
    employ to persuade his/her audience? Why?