Democratic Republic of the Congo

Congo is one of many states what allows other country to push them around. At the beginning of the late 1800’s, Congo would start to go through many changes such as development, modernization, colonization and so on. Not only were European countries making their way into Congo, their own leaders made their small powered economy either a little better or much worse. With these changes happening for the next century, it caused numerous short term and long term effects on this Third World country.…

Abdulla Haider- Arianna Javier- Juan Esparza Professor Mejia Anthropology 101 5-18-18 Old World Monkeys Old world monkeys, which vary in species, can be found in many locations throughout the African and Asian Continents. They can be found in most of Africa, central to southern Asia, India and Japan. They belong to family Cercopithecidae, which share a few characteristics with New World Monkey, unlike their location. There are two main subfamilies of Old World Monkeys. The first,…

Congo in Poverty Since its independence in 1960, the Congo has impacted by its lack of infrastructure and the brutal impact of civil war. Under the Mobutu regime, the country had experienced only public debt that have been growing, inflation, and budget deficits but also the system of the corruption that has now reached record levels. During these, state had shown in illogicality, which took effect as a waste of resources, the allocation of these resources for political purposes. Stability has…

According to Jane Goodall, “ Chimpanzees, gorillas, orangutans have been [lasting] for hundreds of thousands of years in their forest, living [wild] lives, never overpopulating, never destroying the forest. I would [state] that they have been in a way more successful than us as far as being in [concord] with the environment” (Environment Quotes). Palm oil nourishes one’s appearance and rejuvenate the life of food products. The demand for this product has greatly increased in the past years, but…

and non-human primates. Bats have scientifically been implicated as the natural reservoir of Ebola virus (Swanepoel et al., 1996). They are very common in sub-Sahara Africa and can migrate up to 2500 kilometer (Reference). The 2007 outbreak in DR Congo is evidently linked to the annual massive migration and hunting of fruit Bats in the region (Leroy et al., 2009). In 2008, Ebola virus antibodies were detected in 32 of 88 Bats screened in Ghana, of these, 9 were ZEBOV positive (Hayman et al.,…

of Darkness by Joseph Conrad published in 1902 is regarded as the best writing in English and it about imperialism. It is about Marlow’s journey to find Kurt an ivory-trader in Africa and bring him back to civilization. He was traveling through the Congo River by steamboat. He got attacked by the Natives who were ordered by Kurt, Kurt was worshipped by the Natives because he has power and he was brilliant. Kurt was supposed to bring civilization in Africa but he eventually became obsessed of…

In Lusaka, Zambia, children spend their days crushing stones the size of a football, turning them into bags of powder and gravel which are used in concrete mix for construction workers to use. Approximately, in one week children can fill one bag, which are usually sold for 10,000 kwacha, which is less than $3.00. Very often, children complain about injuries such as broken fingers, impaired vision, a piece of rock hitting their face causing scratches in the eye, and a “heavy chest” which is an…

Just off from the mainland of Uganda there is an island, Ngamba Island. This island is small, and cut off from the rest of Africa, this island has become a sanctuary for monkeys and apes, according to the CNN article, Ngamba, the island of the apes” written by Tom Bouchier Hayes and Tom Page. This island is right on the waters of Lake Victoria and has a lush array of vegetation to offer. Chimpanzees today face exploitation from humans, whether it is through deforestation or traffickers, but…

Burundi is a small country that is part of the Great Lakes region bordering Rwanda to the North, Tanzania to the South and East, and the DRC to the West. There are three ethnic groups in Burundi, namely the Tutsi (14%), Hutu (85%), and the Twa (1%). The background of the conflict and peace processes in Burundi is an extremely complicated one, considerably obscured by the lack of consensus on the historical accounts presented by different actors. This review highlights some historical facts about…

Since the end of the 1994 genocide, the guilt card consistently has been used as an explanation of Rwandan foreign policy. While it might no longer be the dominate narrative, it still exists within more recent literature. There are multitude of academic scholars, such as Pottier , Reyntjens , Hayman and Lemarchand , who write on how the implementation of the genocide guilt card concept as one of the key policy tools for power within Rwanda’s arsenal of interacting with the international…