Sub-Saharan Africa

Through the past few decades, the situation in Sub-Saharan Africa did not look promising. Poverty, hunger, corruption, armed conflicts between individual countries, internal ethnic fighting, coups, epidemics, AIDS, malaria and other diseases, underdevelopment, inflation and foreign debt - are just some of the massive problems that the people of the African Continent have to cope with every day. With the beginning of the twenty-first century, Sub-Saharan Africa managed to improve its GDP from 367…

Kema Irogbe’s The Persistence of Famine in Sub-Saharan Africa discusses the problem of famine in Sub-Saharan Africa. Throughout the article, Irogbe examines many theories about the famine in Sub-Saharan African and he points out several flawed arguments. Overall, this article discusses possible solutions to the famine in Sub-Saharan Africa while addressing the factors that caused it. In the introductory part of the article, Irogbe states that Sub-Saharan has not progressed in forty years and the…

Western psychology to set Africa up as a foil to Europe, as a place of negations at once remote and vaguely familiar, in comparison with which Europe 's own state of spiritual grace will be manifest. This need is not new; which should relieve us all of considerable responsibility and perhaps make us even willing to look at this phenomenon dispassionately. - Chinua Achebe Laying directly under the Sahara Desert, Africa’s Sub-Saharan region lies on the Northern section of Africa, consisting over…

This report’s main purpose is to analyse the strategies to improve clean water availability in African countries, especially in sub-Saharan Africa. Sub-Saharan Africa geographically consist of all countries in Africa except Egypt, Algeria, Libya, Tunisia, Morocco, Sudan, and Western Sahara. This region holds some of the greatest challenges regarding water scarcity and sanitation (WHO=UNICEF 2008 cited in Montgomery, Bartram & Elimelech 2009, p. 1018), moreover, there is very limited amount of…

When I was 17, I went to South Africa with my family for vacation. I was shocked by masterpiece of nature – it was such an extraordinary experience to go on a safari to see the big, beautiful wild animals, to watch the sunset from the terrace, sitting in a vineyard sipping wine from a glass, and to stay in one of the most luxurious resorts around the country. What also surprised me more is the great gap between the rich and the poor. While the financial area of the city has modern buildings and…

Africa still showed wages at $1 a day ranking them one of the poorest countries in the world. Wages at $1 a day would not show economic growth without considering population. Population has grown over 300% since 2001 indicating that Africa’s gross domestic…

To many people living in first world countries, the current AIDS epidemic in sub-Saharan Africa is no more than a fleeting thought in their minds when they turn on the news in the morning. However, in the novel Chanda’s Secrets by Alan Stratton, the AIDS epidemic is upfront, personal, and turns the lives of Chanda’s family and neighbours into turmoil. Chanda must deal with the questionable actions of her step-father, the extreme poverty surrounding her living situations, and the ever-present…

The law cannot change beliefs. In the case of the sub-Saharan African, there is a fundamental issue with their beliefs of witchcrafts. They believe that every evil and misfortune that is incapable of rational explanation is blamed on witchcraft (P476). A people of that kind of thinking can 't be convinced otherwise by laws or rewritten laws, in other words, the codification of the law that Bentham proposes will not help the sub-Saharan African in this particular predicament. Codification…

The contributor of “Africa's Informal Economy Is Receding Faster than Latin America's,” published by The Economist, discusses the current and rapidity changing economy of sub-Saharan countries and their respective traditional roles. The author directly cites Adam Smith and the invisible hand in correlation to human nature to “truck, barter, and exchange” (Africa’s). This is to illustrate how individuals will innately make economic decisions based on their personal needs and that these decisions…

opponents. Other countries such as the Congo have also used aid that was supposed to go to food supplies for political gain such as purchasing arms from Italy. Like failed economic projects hosted by other countries, the mismanagement and corruption that Africa faces as the result of the foreign aid can produce political agitation and instability. If people do not have food to eat or a way to earn money, seeing the government at the root of this hardship can produce political upheaval. In doing…