Niger

Background In Ghana—like it neighbors—mechanisms such as ethnic tensions, religious, political, and social problems persist. Despite these challenges, Ghana’s post-independence era evolved peacefully without a civil war or large scale conflict. In the past three decades, Ghana develops the enhanced capability to manage conflicting and competing social interests, allowing the country to pursue a peaceful economic development trajectory and a deliberative political discourse. In spite of Ghana’s…

Here I go again writing about the most beautiful thing that I know, and the best thing that has ever happened to me, which is none other than my “CULTURE.” According to Google, “culture is the characteristics and knowledge of a particular group of people, defined by everything from language, religion, cuisine, social habits, music and arts”. I’m proud to be a part of such an amazing culture, but before I talk about it, I want to give credit to the country where this culture originated. I come…

Niger has several problems throughout the country right now, but one of the most noticeable issues is the lack of primary education. In 2012, children were only expected to persist through five years of primary schooling ("Millenium Development Goals"). That is akin to expecting all children to start school in kindergarten and drop out after fifth grade. Yet not everybody gets the chance to attend for this long—only 49.3 percent of Nigeriens have completed primary school, and in 2012, 978,723…

2.Countries in the Sahel region face various challenges. Among these challenges frequent climate change, desertification, deforestation, frequent food crises, extreme poverty, rapid population growth are the main ones. Basides to the natural problem of the region some other problems such as ethnic centrism, fragile governance, corruption, unresolved internal tensions, violent extremism and radicalization, illegal trafficking and terrorist-linked security threats affects the peace and security of…

From the previous week reading we discovered the Sahel. The Sahel is an area of West Africa which is home to a very unique environment. Within the passage, we learn about the after affects of the drought that has ravage the Sahel. As such, many different parts of the world try to come together and help this important area of Africa. As a result, many western influences were brought in to help reenergize the agriculture of the Sahel. But with their minimal knowledge of the Sahel their ideas soon…

The Sahel is the hardest part of the Saharan region to live in. Due to the fact that the Sahel faces long term drought and desertification. It is very inadequate, that some countries even have advertisements to persuade their citizens to stop using wood for their homes and to switch to coal. In addition to the drought and desertification, the countries in the Sahel also have marginal land. Marginal land is land that is not suitable for farming. This makes it harder for the population to farm…

main trade was gold. They traded through the Sahara desert. Mali had a whole expansions of markets just for west African goods. They traded gold, ivory, slaves, civet and gum arabic. There was also a trading and learning center located on the upper Niger River. Both Mali and Ghana would also trade crops such as rice, millet, cotton, and others. They would also breed animals for food. Mali and Ghana were able to control the trade routes in West Africa by charging taxes to pass into the gold…

The condition of orphans throughout the globe. This past summer I had the amazing opportunity to help in several orphanages in Niger, Africa. Not only did this experience completely change my perspective, it altered all of my ambitions. I found myself learning some of life’s most valuable lessons from the most unlikely of mediums. The children I encountered while in Niger never ceased to amaze me with their profound actions. Their…

Her call to adventure was in a way to find herself in the form of testing her limits to her very breaking point. This is evidenced in the following sentences from “The Cruelest Journey,” “Here is the Niger, and I want to paddle it.” But I’m not that kind of traveler, and this isn’t that kind of trip. If a journey doesn’t have something to teach you about yourself, then what kind of journey is it?” This again proves the point that she did this to test…

multilayered enough to reduce the negative externalities of oil companies in Nigeria. Addressing the Niger Delta’s environmental problems demands that the Nigerian government plays an instrumental role. There are a few existing…