Southern Africa

In the present-day nation of Mali, Timbuktu is located at the southern edge of the Sahara Desert and six miles north of the Niger River. It is significant because it was the commercial, religious, and cultural center of the West African empires of Mali and Songhai in the 14th century. At an early period, Timbuktu played an essential role in the spread of Islam in Africa. Timbuktu’s location made it an important market place for negotiating and trading manuscripts. The north side of Timbuktu…

labor force present in the New World. The indigenous proved nonresistant to illness and inadequate in the fields, which was essential for profits and production. The group of workers that was needed to deal with labor intensive crops could be found in Africa. The Africans were more invulnerable to a few sicknesses that were wiping out the current indigenous laborers in the New World, and were additionally vastly improved specialists in the unforgiving field conditions. Consequently, the European…

AFRICAN STATES EFECTIVELY TO DEAL WITH SOCIO-ECONIMIC CHALLENGES? Africa is commonly known for its diverse history of the human origins and academics often use the term “cradle of human kind” with the discoveries of fossil dating ages back that resemble the human being. The forms of civilisation were also recorded to have begun is Africa specifically in Egypt which was facilitated by Africans. Regardless of the developed states in Africa majority of the states are under developed. From these…

it is believed that roughly 21 million people worldwide fall victim to forced labor. The majority of these people (of all ages) are living in the Asia- Pacific region and make up 56% (11.7 million people) of the world total for forced labor, with Africa having the second highest number of victims of forced labor (3.7 million people) .DEFINE FORCED LABOR (http://www.ilo.org/global/topics/forced-labour/policy-areas/statistics/lang--en/index.htm). The type of labor tends to vary based on location…

CLIMATE CHANGE VS. CLIMATE VARIATION IN WESTERN CAPE The observed trends in average temperatures are evidence for climate changes in the Western Cape region. It is the main wheat production area of South Africa and responsible for almost 40% of the country’s total production. Wheat areas in the Western Cape are mainly rain-fed and the primary use of wheat is for bread making. Swartland is a sub-region of Western Cape and characterized by dry, hot summers and wet, moisty winters which is…

Between 100,000 and 50,000 years ago, Homo sapiens left Africa in search of more space and new habitats to use.On search, some how they met up with the Neanderthals occupying the Middle East and Southern Europe. There’s one hypothesis that suggests that Neanderthals were no match for Homo sapiens. Neanderthals were pushed out of their habitats, and extinct by Homosapiens. Another discovered evidence suggests that, Homo sapiens didn’t leave Africa in large groups, but in smaller ones. This…

A major worldwide issue that has been a concern for many years and has been improved upon since the beginning of the decade is famine and starvation. Over 795 million people worldwide are not receiving food and the right nutrients that are parts of the necessities of life (“Famine and Starvation”). Many organizations are finding options to help and nourish those who are sick and dying. Starvation has become more of a target for organizations to overcome ever since the United Nations established…

Cape Verde is an islandic country located on the west coast of Africa. The Cape Verdean culture is a unique mixture of European and African elements, as it was colonized by Portugal until 1975. National identity is rather fragmented, mainly because of the geographical division of the islands. The northern tend to identify more with the Portuguese colonizers, whereas the southern have a closer cultural affinity with Africa. This can be seen in the different dialect of Creole spoken in the North,…

Albinism is most common—and most feared—in sub-Saharan Africa. In Tanzania, one in about 1,400 children are born with it. In North America and Europe, the rate is far lower, about one in 20,000. A parent may have normal skin and hair pigmentation and mate with a partner who looks the same but, if each carries the recessive gene for albinism, a child will be born with the condition. Albinos, or people with albinism, the term they prefer, suffer reduced eyesight and increased risk of skin cancer,…

The Black Atlantic is an area commonly known for its history of exploitation. The Black Atlantic “represents the history of the movements of people of African descent from Africa to Europe, the Caribbean, and the Americas and provides a lens through which to view the ways that ideas about nationality and identity were formed” (The Black Atlantic Paul Gilroy). The black Atlantic was a culture born out of the Atlantic slave…