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Poverty in Senegal – The Causes of Poverty in Senegal Introduction Since human beings were created, they have never had a life that is more developed than the life today. Supposedly, with the all-remarkable developments in the world’s economic, education, and technology, there should not be countries that are suffered from poverty; however, there are some counties that are even below the line of poverty. Indeed, Senegal is of the African countries that is known as a third world country, which…

by at least 15 people per day (“Centers for Disease Control and Prevention”). The Ebola virus has completely taken over Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone. Other countries such as Kayas, Spain, Lagos, Dallas Texas, New York City, Port Harcourt, and Dakar have the Ebola outbreak as well. Ebola is also known as the Hemorrhagic Fever (“Centers for Disease Control and Prevention”). People are always asking what Ebola is, how and where if generated from, how can they help prevent it from spreading,…

Despite an extensive history of food subsistence throughout the continent, Africa is regularly at the forefront of global discussion in regards to food security, shortages, malnutrition and food-related trade agreements. Almost the contemporary “poster child” of global food inequality, Africa is approached through a rather unique perspective: Instead of being seen as the systematic product of unfair integration into globalization – having its resources stripped, forced to sign lossmaking trade…

Mariama Ba was a Senegalese author and feminist born in Dakar, Senegal and was raised a Muslim by her maternal grandparents. Being raised by her traditional grandparents, she had to struggle to gain an education because; they did not believe that girls should be taught. But against her grandparents’ wishes, she graduated from the Teacher’s College in 1947 and taught for 12 years. Ba later married a Senegalese member of Parliament, Obèye Diop, but divorced him and was left to care for their nine…

The history of Mali goes back to 5000 BC, when the Neolithic human skeleton was found in the Sahara. Discovery of gold and slave trade made Djenne city a trade capital and a destiny for explorers and traders until the 11th century when the Soninke Muslims created a trading center. Soninke kingdom started to move the Trans-Saharan trade routes from the Djenne city on the Niger River valley to North Africa. Almoravid group who later was assumed by the Mandinka Empire has destroyed the Soninke…

Xala (Senegal, Ousamane Sembene, 1975) is a film that follows the decline and the downfall of one of the African businessmen, who is into the selling of rice in the black market to fund the addition of a third new wife to his family. But in a larger sense, Sembene also is commenting on the African failures capitalism and also the tradition of corruption which is inherited from the colonial times. In Xala (Senegal, Ousamane Sembene, 1975) Sembene shows how each situation defines El Hadji, which…

biennial featuring African artists from all over Africa. It’s curator Yacouba Konate is an Ivorian art critic, a writer, and a professor at the universite de cocody in Abidjan. Konate draws some interesting issues in his book” The invention of the Dakar Biennial” Konate asks "In what sense can one speak of 'art ' when one speaks of African art?" The answer to this question, which sounds deliberately provocative, is not simple. One can choose between two types of answer. The first is to state…

As a self-proclaimed outsider, I have always been deeply fascinated with others who were raised in a culture other than the nation of their birth. I believe my status as a Nigerian born immigrant who has spent majority of life in the U.S. makes me a third culture kid (individuals raised in cultures other than his or her parents or the nation of birth), and I have struggled with coming to terms with this status for some time. While struggling with my own identity, I often wonder how others who…

The international political thinking of Thabo Mbeki 1. Biographical particulars Thabo Mvuyelwa Mbeki was born on the 18th of June 1942 in Idutywa, Transkei, to Govan and Epainette Mbeki, whom were educators and activists. Thabo spent lengthy periods away from home, and was often raised by extended family and friends because Govan, as a prominent figure of the African National Congress, was concerned that they might be arrested by Apartheid police. Thabo also became politically active when he…

"Never do things others can do and will do, if there are things others cannot do or will not do."(Amelia Earhart) From not being ladylike and learning to play basketball to attempting to be the first woman to fly around the world, Amelia Earhart focused on doing the impossible all her life. Amelia's courage and self-confidence make her a role model for today's women. Amelia Earhart is an admirable person because of her outlook on life in childhood, accomplishments in aviation, and the impact her…