Sierra Leone

The Influenza Pandemic of 1918 also known as the Spanish Flu became the deadliest disease. During the early 20th century it affected about 40% of the globe's population, without a doubt creating a large impact on history. With the fatalities increasing at a larger rate than those of the First World War, society of the 20th century responded to the spanish influenza by faulting the religious punishment of certain gods. People neglected the help of treatment causing more to get sick which led to…

Ebola can have a fatality rate of up to ninety percent. In his novel, The Hot Zone, Richard Preston describes Ebola as, “a kind of obscenity you see only in nature, an obscenity so extreme that it dissolves imperceptibly into beauty.” The virus spreads through all bodily fluids, including blood, vomit, feces, saliva and sweat. Male patients who have recovered from the virus can even pass it on through their semen up to seven weeks after recovery (Elliot). The current outbreak in West Africa has…

The political- thrillers Blood Diamond and The Constant Gardener tell two different stories, however both movies deal with the representation of Africa in a Hollywood style. The character development, editing and themes are used to further enhance this Hollywood portrayal. Ralph Fiennes plays the role of Justin Quayle in The Constant Gardener. Justin, a minor English diplomat, seems to be a meek, unpassionate, passive gentleman; however this image of him is changed as he becomes provoked into…

Being from Sierra Leone, also the events and outbreak of the Ebola virus in 2014 motivated me to pursue my dream and also heightened my passion for research. Having conversations with family members overseas, through the troubling times of the outbreak fueled my burning…

The U.S. Responsibilities of Issues in Liberia . Liberia is located in Western Africa, bordering the North Atlantic Ocean and is between Côte d’Ivoire and Sierra Leone. It is a country of foreign companies owning most of its land and wealth. It was first settled in by Americo-Liberians in 1817. This was the first cause of conflict in Liberia. The country was, and still is, in political and tribal conflict. Charles Taylor, the man who declared a revolution against the Liberian government,…

United States Pan-African Conference July 1900 saw the first phase of the Pan-African movement in London. Presided over by Bishop Alexander Walters, thirty-two delegates attended the conference; representatives from the United States, Canada, Sierra Leone, Haiti, Liberia, Ghana, and West Indies were in attendance however it was noted that in general Africa had a poor showing. The key aims of the first conference were: To bring into closer touch with one another the peoples of…

“Congo is now total horror story, for years.” This is what Noam Chomsky, professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Boston, said after the murder of Patrice Lumumba, former Prime Minister of the DRC, on January the 17th 1961. Unfortunately, he saw right. Since a few decades now, it has been widely observed that the Democratic Republic of Congo, a Central African developing country and former Belgian colony, has been the stage of great instability; and notably massive human…

were transport through the atlantic ocean from 4 major regions of africa to the caribbean ocean, the north and south america. The major regions where slaves were transported in the new world were spanish claimed territories like Cuba, Jamaica, Sierra Leone, Puerto Rico, and Trinidad, Hispaniola (currently haiti and the Dominican republic), and Brazil that at the time become one of the most prominent sugar producers worldwide. The economic benefits of the atlantic slave trade benefit europe with…

argues the concept of the loyalists’ exodus from America to every corner of the British Empire as a diaspora. She carefully goes over the impact the loyalists had upon the areas they settled in, such as the Bahamas where the population doubled or Sierra Leone, where they became a part of a colony of ex-slaves. In this regard, Liberty’s Exiles is similar in style to Daniel Rodgers’ Atlantic Crossings. Jasanoff weaves together accounts from multiple loyalists and places them in context to…

The case study presents an interesting insight into the growth of ADG from a domestic growth of ADG from being an importer to domestic production and to become an international firm. Having the knowledge and experience of the domestic market, the firm’s domestic growth is dominantly based on the expansion strategy of the business transiting from import business to domestic manufacturing. Though the BIP industrial policies have played a major role in this expansion but the firm’s ability to…