Megafauna of Africa

The notion that all humans are descended from a select group of hunter-gatherers based in early east Africa is called Genealogy. While humans have been around for millions of years, the behaviorally modern human emerged between 100,000 and 300,000 years ago. What changed was our ability to have abstract thought. This is what separated us from animals that followed strictly their set behaviors. The earliest evidence of these abstractly thinking humans goes to Blombos Cave. There are rocks…

The sub-Saharan is located in Africa that lies south of the Sahara desert. The sub-regions of sub-Saharan consist of Somalia, Dijibouti, Comoros, and Mauritania. The offical federal republic of somila is a country located in the horn of Africa. Ethopia is to the west, Dijibouti to the north east, the gulf of aden to the north, the indian ocean to the east, and kenya to the southeast. Somila's population consist of 10.8 million people, and most of those people are muslims. The offical republic…

Through the lenses of many different communities and individuals in different parts of Africa, Arjun Appadurai’s “–scapes” (ethnoscapes, mediascapes, technoscapes, financescapes, and ideoscapes) manifest themselves in similar/universal and different forms between three films: “Price of Love”, “African Metropolis”, and “A Screaming Man”. Along with these “-scapes”, one of the strongest themes throughout the movies was the conflict or cohesion of Westernization in each culture and how the main…

species which include Bundibugyo Ebolavirus, Zaire Ebolavirus, Reston Ebolavirus, Sudan Ebolavirus, and Tai Forest Ebolavirus (WHO | Ebola Virus Disease, 2014). Each species of Ebola are associated with outbreaks in different regions most residing in Africa, but two of which were found in the Philippines and the People’s Republic of China. The symptoms of the Ebola virus include:…

Poverty is a disastrous problem that affects nearly 10% of the global population (www.worldhunger.org). Peter Singer proposes that Americans donate any excess income to overseas aid to combat international poverty in “The Singer Solution to World Poverty”. An estimated 44.2 million people living in the United States, nearly 13% of the US population, were in poverty as of 2016 (www.census.gov). National poverty needs to be addressed before international poverty while keeping in mind that donating…

Comparing the natives to animals continues when Conrad introduces Marlow to a worker in charge of making sure the boiler doesn’t run out of water. He states "to look at him was as edifying as seeing a dog in a parody of breeches and a feather hat, walking on his hind-legs" (Conrad 42). This man illustrates the possibility that the savages might be tamable because, "He ought to have been clapping his hands and stamping his feet In February 1977, Chinua Achebe claimed that Joseph Conrad’s novel,…

An Issue of Justice and the Wolf Packs of Yellowstone National Park The ivory trade is big business. Statistics show that in a ten year period, one hundred thousand (100,000) African elephants are killed for their ivory, approximately 65% of the elephant population. (Safina 100) These sacrifices are tremendous and have a severe impact on the wolf pack hierarchy, and it is obligatory on our part that changes can be made for their preservation. With the help of Carl Safina, Ph.D. in ecology…

ship to sail to these shores, The Clotilde. The book tells his story, from birth to the moment of his interview, but mainly focuses on the parts of his life as a free man. Kossula was born in modern-day Benin, from the Yoruba tribe. His early life in Africa was characterized by stories about family, as well as stories about growing up. His rather blissful childhood ended when the King of Dahomey led a raid on his town, and killed or captured his village as slaves. He was then sold to Timothy…

stereotypes surrounding Africa are largely attributed to the lack of knowledge paired with humans innate ability to always be right. During the beginning of colonization, some europeans were initially interested in exploring the ideologies and cultures that Africans conform to. Befuddled by the idea that the majority of African cultures lacked physical textual history, explorers lost interest and some began to spread hearsay about African customs. Hence, methodologies used to study Africa were…

three million girls will undergo this “procedure” every year. Of all of the countries in the Middle East and Africa that still hold true to this tradition, 95% of girls from those countries have gone through female circumcision. Why is this still happening today? The answer is simply because of religious beliefs. It is required in a few religions around the Middle East and Northeastern Africa. Muslims, Animists, and even a those who practice a religion that is widely prevalent in our society,…