Poverty In Sub Saharan Africa

In Sub Saharan Africa one out of every two people lives off less than a dollar a day. More than 33 percent of Africa’s population has or will suffer through malnutrition. In the year 2000 over 300 million Africans had little to no access to clean drinking water. In the last twelve years that number has doubled. One out of every six children in Africa is expected to die before the age of five. Africa has a wide range of natural resources that can be used to take care of its people, so why is this country considered to be one of the poorest? During my research I have found several reasons that play a part in the poverty in Africa. Mismanagement of land is a big contributing factor. In many parts of Africa the land is owned by tribes, and other …show more content…
A lot of Africa’s nations have borrowed money, which puts them in debt. Most of the time the borrowed money is used to by weapons or funding costly projects that doesn’t benefit the people. For example, the Aswan High Dam was a setback for Africa. This dam was built in the hopes of modernizing Egypt and Sudan. As stated by realclimate.org, “The dam actually stopped the flow of the Nile including the natural fertilizer and organic material the river supplied.” This was very costly causing about one-third of the dam's electric output to be used to fertilize this land that was once known as one of the most fertile parts of the world. Also according to realclimate.org, “The Mediterranean Sea is becoming more of a salt water sea because the Nile isn’t able to flow into it as it once …show more content…
Every day that we follow a corrupt regime that not only created this system, but also heavily promotes this Neanderthal way of living, more and more innocent and valuable lives will be lost. All people are the same, and equal inside and out. This world is everyone’s inheritance, therefore no one person really has power over another unless that person give them power. When it comes to the future of poverty in Africa and the world I feel it will only get worse. As long as we continue to live by this current money system people will starve and there will be more wars behind equal rights. That green piece of paper plays no role what so ever in food, water and materials growing. Money is a piece of paper that we make. If human beings does decide to continue using paper money than it should be used in more ways to benefit human existence. In my opinion a price should not be put on things needed for survival such as food, water, and healthcare. A huge amount of money is spent on worldly possessions‘. The taxes on material purchases in America is enough to maintain a decent standard of living for everyone. We as a world could change this growing problem tomorrow if we just realized we are killing ourselves. Until humankind stand together divided we will