West Africa

Arranged Marriage in West Africa General Purpose: To provide information to my audience. Specific Purpose: To inform my audience about the marriage of the African culture. Central idea: Two people being forced to get married. Significantly different ages or marriages were money are involved. Main point: Poverty and regions beliefs make family to rush their kids into marriage. Effect early marriages have on young girls education. Early marriages expose young girls to health risks. Early…

or geophysical survey, or mineral exploration campaign. At most scales, West Africa remains poorly covered by regolith landform maps such as those commonly used in Australia…

Ebola – a pathogen from our worst nightmares was once just the name of a river in northern Zaire, Africa. How did the name of a river give rise to a virus with such a horrifying connotation? The recent Ebola outbreak occurring in West Africa is on high alert across the world. The Ebola virus is lives in animals such as the fruit bat, but has the tendency to make the jump to humans. When this jump does occur, the virus is deadly and kills the majority of those infected. Because the virus is…

Dumping defines as “the practice of exporting to other countries products that have been banned or declared hazardous in the United States.” (Barry, V. 2014) One of the examples is the E-waste dumping in Africa. According to an article on PC World, “European Commission and U.N. studies show that West Africa is becoming a disposal site for e-waste from various parts of the world.” (Malakata, 2015) It also indicates that “The careless disposal of electronic equipment can cause significant health…

Ebola: a word that for many triggers a somewhat distant memory back to 2014 when the whole world was up in arms about it spreading and becoming a pandemic. This incident of outbreak in West Africa shows how far we have come as a world, technologically and medically, but also how far we still have to go. The severity of the outbreak was completely avoidable, however due to the disregard of certain factors not usually associated with disease, such as cultural practices, it became an epidemic. In…

The name "Sierra Leone" goes again to 1462, when Portuguese wayfarer Pedro da Cintra, cruising down the West African coast, saw the tall mountains ascending on what is currently the Freetown Peninsula and called them the "Lion Mountains," or " Serra Lyoa ." Successive visits by English mariners and later British colonization changed the name to "Sierra Leone." Despite different local varieties in dialect and neighborhood customs, Sierra Leoneans today are united by numerous components, for…

Journey to Work: Transnational Prostitution in Colonial British West Africa is an ambitious undertaking achieved by Saheed Aderinto. In this article, his main argument is that local social processes contributed to change the perceptions on the prostitution in Nigeria, and that prostitution network in Nigeria-Gold Coast flourished partly because men benefited of the remittance of women. But he also announces that his article adresses multiple other questions: « How did the attitudes of…

there have been an additional ten outbreaks of the virus worldwide. As of 2014, The West African Ebola outbreak was the largest and deadliest recorded in history, killing over 11,000 people. The Global Health Security Agenda (GHSA) is responsible for the global urgent call response. The troubling question is, at what extent will GHSA respond to aid a disease epidemic? Many lives could have been saved in West Africa if there was an urgent response to the virus outbreak. The Ebola virus disease…

the 14 hundreds,after the death of Musa, but totally fell apart and ended in the year of 1600 lasting 370 years, the lack of leadership after his death was the main reason it ended. Thesis Statement The Mali empire was the most dominate forces in Africa because of the strong leadership, which gave them access to a strong military, great organization, and a strong economy. Rise and Expansion After Sundiata Keita formed…

also discover villages struggling with thirst for two-fourths of the year while the wet season departs and the dry season begins. According to Andrew Mitchell, International Development Secretary for the British Government, the current drought in Africa is the worst in over fifty years and the international must do more to solve this humanitarian crisis. I believe that this epidemic of drought, disease and thirst is an undue burden on the people of Togo who are in dire need of a wet solution. …