50 Africa Facts Here is the list of 50 facts about the continent of Africa. 1. There are 54 countries and one “nonself governing territory”‚ the Western Sahara‚ in Africa. 2. All of Africa was colonized by foreign powers during the “scramble for Africa”‚ except Ethiopia and Liberia. 3. Before colonial rule Africa comprised up to 10‚000 different states and autonomous groups with distinct languages and customs. 4. The Pharaonic civilization of ancient Egypt is one of the world’s oldest and
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superpower‚ has catalyzed her desire to engage Africa in her Foreign Policy. This has heightened the Chinese desire to geo- strategic reach into Africa as ‘The Going Global Strategy’ according to (Corkin‚ 2006). This has been the plan far back in the 1978 eras of Mao Zedong. 2. China’s objective in the new phase of assertiveness is to maintain strong economic ties in Africa‚ unlike the previous objective of building a coalition of sharing common goals with Africa as ‘Third World’. This geo-economic factor
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still wallow in poverty largely as a result of the leadership strategies that have been continuously adopted by the elite. At the beginning of this paper‚ I tried to define development and either way you look at it‚ the leaders in Sub Saharan Africa have in many occasions got the development agenda wrong for their countries. For instance let us assume that their intention was to create wealth even without minding so much about the well being of the citizens‚ in many instances such wealth is often
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Hunger has been a massive problem‚ especially world wide. Therefore‚ people‚ families‚ and even children have been a victim of this issue. However‚ it seems to be that people in Africa are the one’s who have suffered the most. For example‚ in the article‚”Ending World Hunger In Africa”‚ by Martha Van der Wolf‚ the article states that‚”Droughts‚ floods‚ and other environmental disasters make it even more difficult for those exposed to sustain their livelihoods or even think about increasing their
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4B-10 Topics In Cultural Studies Africa and Westernization Kendra Harris October 28‚ 2012 American Intercontinental University Africa was fist modernized by the Arabs‚ who first settled in North Africa; whereas West Africa is where Islam was introduced and the transformation of culture and civilization started in the region before the Europeans imposed their ways of culture and civilization on Africa (science.jrank.org). East Africa civilizations had already had interactions
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Europeans Had Their Eyes on ruling Africa‚ They Conquered A Big Chunk of Africa Before Reaching a point where they couldn’t Progress anymore. Factors such as disease and the people fighting back stopped them from progressing any farther. In 1884‚ Hiram Maxim Invented The Maxim Gun which was an Extremely powerful weapon at the time. With this new weapon‚ The Europeans Attacked the remaining African Countries. INDIRECT RULE As The Europeans Slowly took Over Africa‚ They Decided not to Kill the leaders
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owns a whole range of brands with which it attempts to serve the South African food retail market. It has also succeeded to export its business model to the rest of Africa‚ the only South African retail company to have done so with considerable success. They were clever enough to develop a business model to fit the situation in Africa. They are facing stiff competition from Pick ‘n Pay (www.pnp.co.za) and Woolworths (www.woolworths.co.za). Until a few years ago‚ the brands Shoprite and Checkers were
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Question #1 “In what way could the huge cultural diversity in South Africa pose challenges for MNCs seeking to set up a business there?" South African has been referred to as the ’rainbow nation’‚ a title which epitomises the country’s cultural diversity. The population of South Africa is one of the most complex and diverse in the world. Of the 45 million South Africans‚ nearly 31 million are Black‚ 5 million White‚ 3 million Coloured and one million Indian. The population density is 32.9 people
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Africa Rapidly increasing the population‚ Africa is the second largest continent in the world. Therefore‚ this continent lay on all four hemispheres and contains over a quarter of the independent countries across the world. Being such a large continent‚ Africa is categorized into two different sections the North African Middle East half‚ made up of the northern countries‚ and what is known as Sub-Saharan Africa which consists of the southernmost countries. Utilizing approximately one-fifth of the
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Myths About Africa Africa continues to suffer from a long tradition of neglect. Being seen as the “dark continent”‚ many people begin to assume that all of Africa is poor. There are many myths about Africa today that seem inevitable to forget. Novels‚ movies‚ television and all modern media play a very important role in how Western society views Africa. Savage Africans are the lowest of the lowest in Western film. As this is the only aspect of what Westerners see about African culture‚ it is
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