Senegal

Cheickna Dembele URST 241-1003 My role in my local community I am originally from a different community. I am originally from Mali in West Africa I lived there until my age of sixteen and I when to Senegal for two years, and I am living here in United States for two years now where I am a student-athlete that plays basketball. I have had many different roles in all those places that I have lived. My roles have also continued to change the older I have gotten. Starting with my country Mali, when…

Mali’s eastern border is Niger, Southeast Burkina Faso, South Ivory Coast, Southwest Guinea, and from the Senegal and Mauritania from the west. The size of the country estimated at 1,240,192 square kilometers. Approximately 65 percent of Mali is covered with desert or semi-desert, excluding the inland delta that created by the Niger River from the northern east…

Two major problems that have become a menace in African leadership today is poverty and youth unemployment which is due partially to the region’s rapid people growth. It has been said that between now and 2050 Sub-Saharan African countries will be overwhelmed with a swift and rapid population increase as well as a huge population of youths in the world. It is therefore very much essential that administrations in Sub-Saharan African countries factor the mass increase coming from the next…

route from the Middle East & Far west, Europe, North Africa, to the Sub-Saharan region of Africa. That Sub-saharan region included but was not limited to: Mali, Senegal, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Benin, Algeria, and Nigeria. The long distance trade was chiefly orchestrated by the Wangara people along the Niger River from Timbuktu to Senegal. It was mostly used by agriculturalist, herdsmen, hunter soldiers, and herdsmen. The trading of gold, salt, copper, and humans by African traders in exchange…

The decolonization and road to independence of African countries was prominent occurence from the 1940s onwards. Key factors in the process towards independence were aspects such as the drafting of the atlantic charter which stressed the importance of self- determination, as well as the rise of an educated group of leaders by the likes of Leopold Senghor and Robert Mugabe who were inspired by Pan African ideals and Marxism. The two leaders played different roles of significance within their…

Mali slightly less than twice size of Texas is a landlocked countries that shares boarders with seven countries round it. It was boarded by Algeria in the North, Mauritania and Senegal in West, Ivory Coast and Guinea in the South and Niger and Burkina Faso in the East. Mali is considered as one of the biggest country in West Africa and ranking at 24th largest country in the world. The geographical areas of Mali are estimated around 478,839 square miles. Mali official’s name is the Republic of…

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…

Born in Senegal about 1753 At the Age of 8 she was kidnapped and brought to Boston on a slave ship John Wheatley purchased young Phillis to be a servant for his wife, Susanna Susanna did not train her to be a servant, instead she received an education in theology, English, Latin, and Greek. Wheatley wrote her first published poem at age 12 Wheatley became the first African American and first U.S. slave to publish a book of poems Phillis died in Boston, Massachusetts on December 5, 1784 Phillis…

Geography of Guinea Guinea has a relatively tropical climate. The temperatures range from the seventies to the hundreds during the day, and forties to fifties at night. However, the placement within these temperatures is determined based on the dry and wet seasons. Near the cost, the temperatures tend to be lower and more rainfall occurs annually. In the northern parts of Guinea, it is drier and slightly hotter due to the Sahara winds. Guinea is also rich in mineral deposits. These deposits…

In general, women’s health is determined by social and biological determinant which constitute a burden for the families and the community. Being born a female, itself, present biological health conditions that affect her in many ways. For example, women are susceptible to be more anemic than men due to the menstruation and hemorrhage associated to pregnancies. Other complications associated to pregnancies such as hypertension, fistula, eclampsia and more are also other problems to their health.…