Mali

What would you do if your country wasn’t powerful enough to defend yourself, your family, and your friends? Would you leave or fight back? The United Nation peacekeepers make it so you wouldn’t have to do either. The United Nations was established right after World War II originally made up of fifty countries and now is a coalition of one hundred ninety three countries throughout the world that came together to help change and protect the world. In order to protect the world they created an…

African Art has historically been focus on the power and beauty of the body. The pieces of art that remain today lack much of the purpose as they meant to be used not displayed in glass cases. This is true for items such as the Buli Master’s stools and the headdresses of the Bamana and Mende peoples. These items, though aesthetically pleasing were meant to be used in either a leader’s home while entertaining guests or for ceremonies of seasonal change or children becoming adults. The headdresses…

Ebola virus disease EVD or “Ebola” is a severe human and non-human primate disease caused by Ebola viruses. These viruses belongs to the family: Filoviridae, Genus: Ebolavirus, Species: Tai forest ebolavirus (TAFV), Reston ebolavirus (RESTV), Sudan ebolavirus (SUDV), Zaire ebolavirus (EBOV) and Bundibugy ebolavirus (BOBV) (Bukreyev et al., 2014). Zaire ebolavirus or simply Ebola virus (EBOV) is the most virulent of the genus and accounts for the highest numbers of outbreaks. The virus spreads by…

phones and much more for the main purpose of meeting the westerns’ demand. Indigenous people from the Busman camp in Botswana, take off their western style T-shirts to entertain tourists on their arrival. The Tuareg tribe in the Saharan parts of Niger, Mali, and Algeria are nomad people who used animal skin to cover their tents but now use plastic sheets. However, when tourists come to visit, the Tuareg people replace the tents with the traditional style made from animal hides (Mowforth and…

Bone, was created in modern-day Swaziland in 35000 BCE. However mathematical advancements in Africa are not only basic or ancient creations. Mathematical manuscripts discovered in Timbuktu contain some of the earliest examples of modern astronomy. Mali, home of one of the world’s oldest known universities, was a breeding ground for mathematical achievement throughout the 1200s. However, these records of mathematical achievement were locked away for centuries as Malians feared that Asian and…

A study by marketing professor Deborah Small presented a group of volunteers with different advertisements for “Save the Children.” One advertisement told the story of Rokia, a little girl living in Mali, who “is desperately poor and faces a threat of severe hunger, even starvation” and that “her life will be changed for the better as a result of your financial gift” (Small); the second advertisement showed widespread statistics pertaining to starvation…

The issue of slavery in Africa started with the Portuguese expedition of West Africa in the fifteenth century. Prince Henry sponsored the Portuguese as their governor and was later named Prince Henry the Navigator after his establishment of a school for navigators at Sagres, Portugal in 1419. The purpose of this school was to train explorers in navigation, map-making, and science so they could be prepared to travel along the west coast of Africa. The Portuguese, who eventually became the one…

PROLOGUE Zaraye was rushing through house looking for her favorite brush to do her hair. She remembers now she had it in her mom’s room. When she enter into bedroom she saw her sister Lux asleep on the chaise. The chaise was her mom favorite place to read her bible. There laid Lux snoring with the family bible on her lap. Zaraye spotted her brush on the dresser and tiptoe in room not to wake her sister. Zaraye noticed Lux still had on the clothes she had own last night. Zaraye thought about all…

Sub-Saharan Africa is an endlessly revolving door of policy challenges and changes for the United States and other global leaders. Many of the countries in the region gained independence during the 1960s, and development, health, and government organization have been slow in terms of reaching global standards. The area is prone to diseases such as Malaria, HIV, and Ebola, although significant progress has been made in decreasing the number of cases of each of these. Economically, the region has…

Introduction After the September 11th attacks, the Bush Administrations War on Terror brought terrorist groups (notably al-Qaeda) to the forefront of the global scene, making the Middle East the site of the 21st-century’s newfound conflict. Ten years later, the death of Osama Bin Laden heralded an end to the supremacy of the al-Qaeda core and its leadership, yet began the threat of affiliate groups to al-Qaeda, and the new radical group ISIS. Despite most affiliates inability to launch…