Sahel

Role of colonialist and other external parties in Continued African Problems In the 1880’s, European powers divided Africa amongst themselves without the consent of the African people giving birth to the colonization Era of Africa. During this era, Africa was introduced to new policies by the colonial masters to enable them govern the continent. These policies were not well received by a majority of Africans and the struggle for independence began in earnest. The mid 19th century saw African…

THE WATER CYLE AND CLIMATE CHANGE Among the most serious Earth science and ecological approach issues challenging society are the potential changes in the Earth’s water cycle because of environmental change. The science community agrees that the climate of Earth is now changing due to natural variability; it includes solar variability and increasing concentration of greenhouse gases. Moreover, it is noticed that these changes may strongly affect atmospheric water vapor concentrations,…

coast of Africa. The Ghana empire was one of the first empires on the Northwest coast of Africa to rise in that area. Ghana began in the eighth century when there was a little change in the economy. There was an spectacular shift in the economy of the Sahel area. The south area of the Sahara allowed more condense states to form. Once the camel came along there was an revolution in trade for the first time. Ghana owned much of its wealth through trade and they had a secret location near the…

A Big Problem in a Big World: Global Poverty Poverty is not having a place to live. Poverty is constantly being hungry. Poverty is being uneducated, not knowing how to read and write. Poverty is not having clothes to wear. Poverty is not having a job, fearing for the future. Poverty is becoming ill because of the unsanitary conditions around you. Poverty is all around the world. Unfortunately, poverty is an obstacle that affects numerous people. From our own country, the United States of…

Physical description & Attributes The Green Monkey or “Chlorocebus sabaeus” goes by many names; including sabaeus monkey, vervet monkey and callithrix monkey. They belong to the Old World monkey family. Old World monkeys are distinguishable from New World monkeys in that they are native to Africa, Asia and Europe. They belong to the clade Catarrhini which literally means “down-nose”, simply because their nostrils point downwards. While New World monkeys are native to the Americas and belong to…

incident in the infamous, “We came, we saw, he died” comment. Libya became a failed state where Islamic jihadist terrorists vied for control of the country and Qaddafi’s arm caches were given or sold to jihadist terrorists in Syria, Iraq, Egypt, the pan-Sahel region, and sub-Saharan Africa. After Qaddafi’s ouster, black African guest workers and their families were massacred by jihadist forces. Malaysia Before Hillary: Malaysia, before 2009, was a religiously tolerant nation where Buddhists,…

malaria across most systems; schistosomiasis and lymphatic filariasis in cultivated and inland water systems in the tropics; dengue fever in tropical urban centres; leishmaniasis and Chagas disease in forest and dryland systems; meningitis in the Sahel; and cholera in coastal, freshwater and urban systems. While climate change impacts may have few direct impacts on other important diseases such as HIV/AIDS, climate variability impacts on food production and nutrition can affect susceptibility to…

The Adventures of Mississippi the Cat in Africa Anton Sanda In a country as in dreams With thick forests, clear streams, Once two siblings, girl and boy, Got a present a live toy, A nice kitten soft and small, Like a playful fleecy ball, Which grandpapa bought for them. And they thought it was a gem. They chose to name him Mississippi. -Aha, the cat said Mew-ssissippi? t’s brilliant, such name I buy, You’re very good, I can’t deny He was so very sweet and nice, But also petrified of…

Slavery laid at the core of Ghana’s pre-colonial states, whose economy was almost fully dependent on slave labor. Indigenous slavery occurred before the transatlantic slave trade, and coexisted with it from the sixteenth to nineteenth centuries. During pre-colonial Ghana, slaves were a commodity and their descendants maintained a slave status as well. Since slaves became a part of their masters’ property either through adoption or marriage, they weren’t exactly classified as complete outsiders,…