Tanzania

After viewing the film Darwin’s Nightmare, it is easier see how dependent theory is applied in the real world. Tanzania can be used as a case study for dependent development, as well as many other impoverished nations in Africa. According to lecture, dependency theory states that global capitalism has a “core” (the rich), and a “periphery” (the poor). Resources of all sorts flow from the periphery of poor and underdeveloped states to the core of wealthy states, enriching the latter at the…

Global Music Outreach (GloMo) strives to provide a quality music education to students in Tanzania. Currently, GloMo has been focusing on internal affairs and creating policies as a newly established Cube Start Up. Throughout this process, GloMo has strived to make its program the best that it possibly can be for the children it serves in Tanzania (L. Limarzi, personal communication, February 16, 2017). Additionally, GloMo has worked on creating local partnerships with Chapel Hill schools to…

different cultures and how they function. I hope that through my trip I will be stretched mentally and emotionally causing me to grow and become a better person. I am applying for the Gilman Scholarship so that I can participate in the Houghton in Tanzania program. I am currently a majoring in music with a concentration in Intercultural studies. In completing this program, I will be able to complete the necessary requirements for my concentration. This scholarship would…

181 attacks on albinos. People should not be content with this. Albino people in African countries are being killed and attacked because people think that certain body parts of albino people have magic powers for rituals and concoctions. In Malawi, Tanzania, and Burundi, people suffering from albinism are being discriminated because they are albino which is a violation of the human rights. Malawi is guilty of violating the human right of Freedom of Discrimination. To start off, according to…

soon-to-be mother in Swedish hospital could be calming atmosphere with her own room and easy access to things such as food or water. However, in Tanzania, an expecting mother wouldn’t have a room to herself, access to water, or painkillers. The article “Giving Birth in Different Worlds” discusses these differences, “…the risk of dying during childbirth in Tanzania is a hundred times higher than it is in Sweden.” There is a huge gap in maternal health between more and less developed countries.…

Then Africa saw a resurgence of the disease linked to the HIV/AIDS virus. Because of this linkage, countries have found it very difficult to combat the disease. The WHO, in response to the MDGs on tuberculosis, has outlined a plan, aimed at reducing the amount of cases of the disease, which is centered on gaining political support and funding for treatment measures. Because of its linkage to HIV, a more integrated solution is needed. Also, because tuberculosis is a highly infectious airborne…

At age thirteen, I left everything behind in Tanzania to start a new life with my parents, who were brave enough to leave their home country and provide a better future for my sister and I in Canada. Growing up in Tanzania, I witnessed the injustices imposed upon the underprivileged members of society. What troubled me the most was that I saw no progress. The gap between the rich and poor was so evident that it became a way of life. Although I realized that this was wrong, I never truly…

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,…

Globally FGM is a violation of human rights issues and is also seen a severe form of gender discrimination. In Tanzania these practices are performed to insure a young girl’s readiness before adulthood and marriage. Their beliefs are centered around improving unacceptable sexual behavior. Throughout out Africa you can see various customs of different beliefs, for…

For almost 20 years that I grew up in Tanzania, the song in everyone’s ears has been poor economic condition that flirted the nation. Despite being the fulcrum of liberation of African continent, still it is lagging behind and stands as one of the poorest nation on earth. For years now, what lingers into many Tanzanian minds including me; what should be done to change our country’s fortune? I recall during my primary school days in late 1990s, reading a book “Long Walk to Freedom”, an…