East Africa

Poverty, while on the surface is the state of being poor, is a constant battle and an epidemic that plagues our world. The issue of poverty is so commonplace that it is apparent in every town, city, and country. Families are torn apart, lives are lost, and conditions are worsening. A staggering amount of people live in poverty while a fraction of the population, the rich, account for the vast majority of the wealth. Poverty is a critical issue that needs to be addressed. Majority of humanity is…

1.6 REVIEW OF LITERATURE Mammo Muchie (2000) in his article discusses the successful value-added chain within India's leather industry, and then draws contrasts with the evolution of the leather products industries of Kenya and Ethiopia. Much of India's success derives from the ability of its stakeholders—from government to industry—to set their own policies and priorities regarding the development of the leather industry. The fact that India selectively liberalized the entry of a variety…

routes to Cuba , which belonged to Spain at this time. Their usual routes were between their home port and Cuba ,and their main cargo was the production of sugar and slaves. The Amistad was told to be no pure slave ship that his routes were between Africa and America but also the slaves was transported from other ships. On June 1939, the La amistad in a small harbour in Havana with cargo loaded for a multi-day trip to Guanaja. In addition, more than 50 Africans on board were taken. The men who…

Rwanda; a multicultural African country with more than ten million inhabitants, has a village called Banyarauanda which has three different ethnic groups; Tutsis, Hutus and Twas. These ethnic groups share the same culture, languages and some tasks such as agriculture and livestock. Moreover, when the Tutsis was in charge of the small town; monarchy, everything was peaceful and equitable; however, in 1923 Banyarauanda became a Belgian colony with a different way of rule where the Tutsis was a…

Recently, a bank called Citygroup ranked South Africa as the richest country in the world in terms of mineral and natural resources. The value was estimated around 2.5 trillion. Shocking statistics reveal that South African whites and western foreigners own as much as 80% of it, which makes south Africa unquestionable the most racially unequal country. Already in 1455, the Portuguese people discovered South Africa, a nation that had almost unlimited access to valuable, material resources. The…

Travel narratives about Morocco constitute an inextricable part of the discursive practices that created and maintained an ontological and epistemological construction of Morocco that made it fit in the homogenous and monolithic Orient. Therefore, one way of proving such a claim is by questioning the image of Morocco and the way the country has been identified from a Western perspective based on a body of produced knowledge, particularly travel narratives, and thus the subject of this essay.…

Prior Nigerian independence in 1960, the individuality or otherwise unconventionality of the various federating units of Northern, Eastern and Western Nigeria was not in doubt. With the Western and Eastern Nigeria attaining independence in 1957 and Northern Nigeria in 1959, the sovereignty and autonomy of the federating units was further reinforced. In other words, these federal units had the option of going their separate ways as autonomous states in the comity of nations in the said years;…

Haiti, my country, is going through many challenges. In addition to being the poorest country in the American Continent, it faces alarming economic and political crisis, and a low level of education (...) worsens the situation. Only 1% of those who finish high school can go to university, and less than 50% of them finish university (Dare2Impact, 2015). It's revolting! In a country of about 11 million people, more than 50% are young, they can no longer be seen as the future. They are also the…

This article is about the issues surrounding the African women who face the problems with micro credits. Micro credit refers to credit (loans) in small amounts to people who do not ordinarily have access to credit. It is delivered to poor people through micro-finance institutions (MFIs), which include a wide variety of organisations such as credit unions, financial non-governmental organisations (NGOs), informal savings and loan groups. The imposition of micro credit leads to an increase in the…

It is normal for one to state that Sub-Saharan countries experience food shortage and famine which is caused by El Nino, however this challenge of food shortage and famine can be traced back to natural triggers (drought) and political crises (civil war). Nevertheless one may argue that a catastrophic food shortage is due to lack of or difficulties in food distribution, affecting large numbers of people due to climate hazard, environmental, socio-economic reasons or extreme political condition…