West Africa

First, Carney shows a list of diverse plants domesticated in Africa before the Columbian Exchange to state that Africa alone before the Columbian Exchange was a continent full of many food crops in the savanna, tropical region and the coast. Then, Carney focuses on a list of African plants introduced into the Americas through the Atlantic…

know more about these financial institutions, and their real mission. The project of the world bank or the IMF that created problems for the nation that received its assistance was in Africa, specifically in Ghana. Ghana is a country located in West Africa, rich in natural resources like other countries in Africa, and a typical country loved by these financial institutions. The case of Ghana is the same operating system did by the world bank and the IMF to Greece. In Northern Ghana, the…

HIV/AIDS is an immunodeficiency virus that attacks the body 's cell. HIV/AIDS are not two separate diseases, they are just two different stages of the same disease, AIDS being the more severe of the two. HIV or human immunodeficiency virus affects and attacks specific cells within the human body, weakening the immune system. AIDS or acquired immunodeficiency syndrome is the final stage of the HIV infection, and not everyone progresses to this stage of HIV. “AIDS is the stage of infection that…

emergence of the transatlantic slave trade had coerced the societies of Africa to be intertwined with slavery, which prompted distinct effects on different classes of Africans. The effects of the transatlantic slave trade on Africans were characterized by the cruel treatment…

of the colonists led to them believe that they were meant to serve under the white man working leading to an increase of slaves being brought in from Africa (Foner 44). Slavery in North America, Brazil, and the West Indies all derived from the need to use people to the hard manual labor for free by forcing them to do so, however Brazil and the West Indies developed differently for the use of trading slaves for profit known as the slave trade. Chesapeake Blacks from the period of 1600’s to…

“The Age of Pandemics (458-62),” Larry Brilliant states sixty percent of diseases are from the contact of animals. Several diseases that are a cause of animal contact are the bird flu, SARS, AIDS, West Nile and Ebola. Another cause of the spread of diseases is the lack of knowledge. In sub-Saharan Africa the Aid and HIV issue is growing at an increasing rate because they are practicing early marriage and human trafficking. Rape is also occurring frequently and women are exposed to the HIV…

In the 1400s-1500s, Europeans wanted to find new paths to the Orient for two reasons. One of the reasons is to find closer routes to trade with, at the time, Europe had little gold throughout their whole country. They had decided that gold and other goods were a necessity rather than a delicacy. With this bad judgment, Europe traded away most of the country's gold just for spices and other unnecessary goods, and Europe went into a depression. The other reason for trying to find a new path to the…

Colonies Work the International Market This map fascinates me because it shows the strong influence that the colonies had on global trade and how they were relied on for revenues and resources. I also chose it because it shows what commodities are being traded and how the colonies acted as a “middle man” for goods being traded from the Caribbean and South America to Europe. Along with showing the popular ports it also shows what goods are being exported where. It shows that New England and the…

conditions, and labor scarcity. The colonial shipping trade followed the triangular trade route. In terms of the first routes there were ships that left the American colonies that carried manufactured goods such as tools that sailed to the west coast of Africa. In Africa…

The increasingly arid environment of western Africa makes the food security of Niger extremely vulnerable. The Republic of Niger is a landlocked country of 21.48 million people (Food Security Index). Niger’s economy is predominatly based on agriculture. Most families depend on subsistence agriculture, as fourth-fifths of Niger’s population depends on subsistence farming (Our Africa). With recurrent severe droughts and low annual rainfall, the food supply in Niger is shrinking. If these trends of…