Dakar

When attempting to come across a potential topic about something that can actually make a huge impact on the lives of people, I aimed at looking for two things. The first was something that can actually affect the lives of people living in third world countries. The world currently goes through enough products to use up about 3-5 Earths, even with all these third world countries being so out of loop of the technological advances that happened in the past two to three centuries. I wanted to be…

Race is a huge problem in society. Martin Luther King Jr died for everyone to be treated equally. Dr. King fought for our rights so that we wouldn’t be treated differently. Especially on the bus, people of color could only sit at the back of the bus and were forced to stand up whenever a white person wanted a seat. Race is a huge issue between races but there many issues within in race. Race can be a conflict between Whites and Blacks but there is another problem between light skinned and…

indirect policy like the case of Kenya, Uganda and Nigeria. The French strictly applied the policy of assimilation where they assimilated the Africans and were taken to live in the communes, for instance in Senegal there were four communes that is Dakar, Goree, St Louis and Rufisque. The policy of assimilation accepted the Africans to taken and treated like French people and given the French education while the British did not incorporate Africans in their ruling. Finally the two countries…

Two major problems that have become a menace in African leadership today is poverty and youth unemployment which is due partially to the region’s rapid people growth. It has been said that between now and 2050 Sub-Saharan African countries will be overwhelmed with a swift and rapid population increase as well as a huge population of youths in the world. It is therefore very much essential that administrations in Sub-Saharan African countries factor the mass increase coming from the next…

Modern Slavery: Human Trafficking Approximately twenty to thirty billion dollars is earned in profit every year from this slave producing industry, and somehow, our entire nation, our entire world, has seemed to turn their heads away from it. (U.S. Department of Homeland Security) The United States constitution passed a law that abolished slavery in 1865, but it’s quite odd considering that there is more slavery in the world now than there was in the 1800’s. Human trafficking is defined by the…

and Faada Freddy, has been vital in transforming Senegal, a third world country, into one of the most important and largest sites of hip hop music in Africa. They also served as pioneers in adopting this culture among West Africans, especially in Dakar, the capital of Senegal. This “hardcore” Senegalese duo was formed in 1992, originally with a third member, Lord Alaji Man, up until 2007 when the group officially changed its name to Daara J Family. This group, whose names means “school of life”…

Mariama Ba is a Senegalese author and feminist. She was born in Dakar, and was raised a Muslim. She perceived the inequalities between the sexes resulting from African traditions and addressed those issues in her works. Raised by her traditional grandparents, she had to struggle even to gain education, because they did not believe that girls should be educated. Ba died a year before the publication of her second novel, Scarlet Song. Scarlet Song has gained international attention because; this…

Section A A1. a. It is also defined as the activity, set of institutions and processes for creating, delivering and exchanging offerings that have value for customers, and society at large. Marketing is used to create, and satisfy the customer. With the customer as the focus of its activities, it can be concluded that it is one of the premier components of business management. The term developed from the original meaning which referred literally to going to a market to buy or sell goods or…

When asked why she flew, Amelia Earhart answered, “My ambition is to have this wonderful gift produce practical results for the future of commercial flying and for the women who may want to fly tomorrow’s planes” (Quotes, n.p). Amelia Earhart was easily one of the best pilots in aviation history. On July 3, 1937 Amelia Earhart and her navigator Fred Noonan, disappeared during their attempt to circumnavigate the globe. If successful, Earhart could have been the first woman to accomplish the feat,…