Horn of Africa

presentation, Karene stated that nearly every time she goes to Tanzania, she becomes infected with malaria. Although there is a cure and medicine for malaria it is still extremely dangerous to be exposed to that risk every time she and her family visits Africa. It can only take one instance for malaria to turn into a fatal disease. Additionally those with albinism need to be protected from brutal mutilation because of their condition. If people are coming after those with albinism who is to say…

Slavery has a very large impact on the history of this world, but it has actually been around much longer than you would think. When learning about slavery in school, we learn that slavery was going on in America in the year of 1619. Slaves were kept then to help in the assistance of crops, and specifically tobacco. Slavery progressed and the slaves were used largely for cotton as well. Slavery was not made illegal and fully stopped until January of 1863. This form of slavery was very cruel, and…

All around the world, poverty exists in some way. From capitalism to communism, there will always be some sort of poverty in our societies. Because of this, we will always see poor people in the streets asking for money. When it comes to my ethnics and moralities, I will always give in some way that I can. These are my obligations and these should be everybody’s obligations. If I were poor and asking for money, I would only ask because I needed it, not because I wanted it. Who am I to deny…

Nigeria was first invaded by the British in 1851. The British were there for colonization, meaning they were there to take over Nigeria politically and economically. During this time the Nigerians were feeling oppressed and that the Europeans abused their human rights. The colonization of Nigeria was not a great crime because the people of Nigeria violated the right to recognition as a person before the law, right to participate in the cultural life of the community while the europeans violated…

Honestly there is no way to measure the strength it took to be a slave. To constantly search for yourself in the empty words of people who were deemed the superior over you, or to have your family ripped apart to teach you lessons on obedience as if you were some type of show animal. Slavery was and is the truest form of disrespect to human life. Those with the power didn’t see the value behind every life, just the ones that mirrored themselves. The act of becoming richer and powerful also…

There’s a quote that comes to mind by Steve Biko when he says, “The most potent weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed.” For centuries, the Bible has been used by colonial powers to support their imperial strategies, which I find to be an ironic situation when so much of the Bible originated by way of hostile resistance to empires. What is widely regarded as a Sacred text, has been misappropriated as a tool to control and oppress people by seeking to enforce a colonial…

going to Africa, but there were bad effects of colonization there In the following paragraphs you will see some reasons for both. One reason for going to Africa is that they had raw materials, new markets, trade. This is important because raw materials in the colonial countries they were running out of those things because they were using all of it up. Also new markets and trade was beneficial because they could acquire thing differently and even easier. Another reason for going to Africa is…

The slave trade was a major economic and historic event. From 1501 to 1866, when international abolition laws took effect, the trade relocated an estimated 12 million African slaves (Slave voyages, 2014). The literature is quite extensive on the subject, outlining a clear image of how the slaves were traded in the colonies; their day-to-day work in the farms and mines, as well as theories of productivity, changes in price and slave-owners’ incentives and strategies. Little attention however, is…

The short-term relationship between inflation crises, poverty, and income distribution has been studied extensively in previous literature. Measuring 33 countries worldwide, Powers (1995), found that on average poverty had a negative correlation with inflation in the short-term. Her study concluded that, first, the poor tend to hold a majority of their financial assets in the form of cash rather interest-bearing assets; and second, the poor have less opportunity than the middle or upper classes…

In the West Indies, the white owner (usually male) would always be at the top of the social hierarchy. Below the white owner, were usually white servants that worked for the owner. The slaves were the lowest on the social hierarchy, but there were some slaves that were better off and above others. For example, slaves that were skilled craftsmen had a higher rank or reputation than those that were field slaves that mainly worked on the farms and did more laborious tasks. Field slaves were…