East Africa

The farmers in Africa are simply not producing enough food to meet the demand, which also makes food more expensive and more hard to reach. Close to four million Zambians, seven million Zimbabweans, and fourteen million Ethiopians are at risk of starvation(Masci). If these…

The devastation that was the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade stripped African’s of their culture, families, civilization, and history. Fortunately, hard working individuals like director Andrea Kalin are restoring some of this rich heritage; making African history something that is not just brushed aside, but rather appreciated and understood. Through her cinematic talents, Kalin is able to not only tell an interesting story, but succeeds in representing these people for who they were: intellectual…

mood when it comes to Wheatley’s poem. She declares, “Taught my benighted soul to understand/That there 's a God, that there 's a Saviour too” (Wheatley 602). This statement references her capture and journey from Africa to America. She means that the pagan life she lived before in Africa made her ignorant and oblivious of the existence of something greater than what she knew, Christianity. This explains why she acknowledges God by calling him her savior. Wheatley was not aware of God in…

to colonial presence in Africa. Because after all, Western books and writings seems to dismiss the feelings of these people, or do not know the impact that their presence and powers had on the colonials. And this book is able to bring all of these voices together, because the colonizers use the same strategy that they used in Nigeria to dominate and oppress other Africans in all of Africa. For example, the abduction of African men to fight in the wars was common in Africa and this cause one…

GENDER INEQUALITY IN DROUGHTPRONE RAYALASEEMA REGION IN AP: A MACRO VIEW ABSTRACT Drought is a serious problem for the government as well as rural people. It is a period of serious economic disaster resulting in acute shortage of water, lack of fodder for livestock, decline in area under different crops, and unemployment. Against this background, the purpose of this study is to study the gender differences in terms of sex ratio, literacy status in Rayalaseema Region of Andhra Pradesh. The…

Geological location is one of the main influences in someone’s culture. Their location can change their appearance, personality, and almost every other factor in that person’s life. In the short story “Everyday Use,” by Alice Walker, Maggie and Mama’s culture are shaped and molded by their environment into a mix of African and American countryside. This mixture creates one of the main conflicts in the story, when Dee, the other daughter who moved away and went to college, comes back to town.…

There are many people out there do not have a easy and happy life like most of us do, therefore, the most importantly, compassion is one of a very important character that each of us should hold in our life, the world without compassion would be no love . no understanding and no warmth. It's sad to see that how someone having a really luxury life while there are many more people out there are just craving for survival, craving for a bread and water. However, after reading the story from “On…

The theme between both of these passages is poverty. This is shown in both passages in talk of the street and how their living is. Poverty is shown throughout both when they are not able to buy or get a certain thing because they do not have any money at all. As in the first passage needing food but there is not money in the house. The second passage of not being able to get four room and only three or so rooms, why is this a theme throughout the world. Poverty is so big and all over covering…

Hoschild jabbers about Leopold's capacity to "spin control." In many occurrences Leopold alludes to Africa as the “Magnificent African Cake” and telling whatever remains of the world that he was only opening up Africa with the expectation of complimentary exchange, endeavoring to stop slave exchange and that he really had no kind of business intrigue. The U.S and numerous different nations were tricked and…

Dambisa Moyo is a woman born and raised in the heart of Africa, in the small country of Zambia. She wrote the novel “Dead Aid.” In her novel, she discusses Africa and the root causes of its underdevelopment. With its main focus being on foreign aid, she discusses the pros and cons to African nations receiving monies from developed countries. Moyo begins her novel by addressing aid throughout each decade. She describes the ways in which foreign aid has changed and developed starting…