Sub-Saharan Africa

Along with the Greek, other languages developed words to describe black people and their homelands. Another modern country, Sudan, derives its name from “Bilād as-Sūdan” which means “land of the blacks” and in medieval times referred to the whole of sub-Saharan Africa. As Africans moved to Europe, specifically the Iberian peninsula, the concept of the “moor” was adopted, a word that persisted and made its way into the subtitle of a Shakespeare tragedy. In Cairo, black and white soldiers were garrisoned separately, leading to the “Battle of the Blacks”…

power and ruling its government under control. What might happened in ancient times is still happening in modern society, especially in Africa. The land dispossession of rural African-communities dates back to colonial and post independent eras, land grabbing has intensively picked pace since the food crisis of 2007-2008. (Kachika, 2013) Ironically, in Sub-Saharan Africa, the number of people living in poverty increased from 184 million in 1985 to 216million in 1990, and 300 million in…

Discovering Sub-Saharan Africa Sub- Saharan Africa is located south of North Africa and in the middle of the south Atlantic and Indian Ocean. Being such a large continent, it was picked to pieces territorially by early colonization’s from large countries in Europe. With colonization completely withdrawing from the continent, it lays divided and has many challenges to overcome becoming a functioning continent. Few countries in that continent have normalized the transition from a colony into a…

Sub-Saharan Africa remains the most severely affected region, accounting for approximately 71% of all people living with HIV infection (Figure 1) [8]. More than 90% of HIV-infected children in the world currently live in Sub-Saharan Africa [11]. Countries with a high prevalence of HIV in Sub-Saharan Africa have witnessed a decline in life expectancy at birth to just below 50 years of age [12]. Kenya is one of the countries severely affected by HIV in Sub-Saharan Africa causing infection in 1.6…

In general, violence in Africa has contributed to the spread of HIV in two main ways. The migration of people influences the spread of HIV and during times of war and conflict there are many more people moving around to fight or flee the fighting. In both situations, the likelihood of spreading HIV is increased. Those fighting, such as soldiers, have a heightened risk of getting infected due to the nature of their job and the spread of bodily fluids they might come into contact with through…

Africa, because it is so large, has many different climates & physical features Home to over 800 ethnic groups with many, many languages. Population density ,natural resources , and climate limits the ability of some regions to develop adequate resources while others are rich. Extremely dry region are separated Africans in the north from sub-Saharan Africans. Grassland Are good for growing crops and raising livestock. Hot and humid rain are difficult for people to live there.…

Despite The Economist labeling Africa as “the hopeless continent” (McLure, 2012) as late as the year 2000, the sub-Saharan region of Africa continue to prove these words wrong, growing economically as a leading exporter of oil and natural gas. Technological advances, democratic governments, new economic policies and the support by the global community poise Africa to become a leading economy within the next decade (McLure, 2012). This economic growth poses some great problems, as to avoiding the…

Many companies are beginning to set their sights on Africa for new business because of the improved political environments. Africa now is above average GDP growth rates and there is promise of more natural resources in a continent where everything still needs to be developed. Most of their growth has come from natural resources such as gas and oil. But growth has been slow to the economy. Doing business in the Sub-Saharan regions will still take time to development. There are still challenges…

J.R. Early’s “The Tragedy of sub-Saharan Africa” lays context for a discussion about how outside contact, primarily European, adversely affected Africa after 1500. Early argues that this perceived lack of agency and African subordination to European forces is the “tragedy of sub-Saharan Africa’s history”. However, the real tragedy here is the ignorant omission of centuries of rich culture and history while patting ourselves on the back for recognizing the “tragedy” that befell the…

Sub-Saharan African countries suffered from different kinds of problems: poor health care systems, corrupt governments, low life expectancies, and poverty (Stein, 2015). Lenin blamed colonialism for exploiting Africa and concluded that this exploitation caused Africans to live in a low economic status (Stein, 2015). The word “exploit” should be clearly defined here. Lenin defined this “exploitation” in Africa as “monopoly capitalists securing new political entities which ensured cheap raw…