Natural Hazards Drought 2011 East Africa Drought The East Africa drought began in late 2010‚ when rains that usually fall between October and December did not arrive. The East Africa Drought affected most parts of Kenya‚ Ethiopia and Somalia. This lack of rain continued through 2011‚ driving food prices to unprecedented amounts. Due to two farming seasons being missed‚ many could not afford to buy food and fodder from more fertile areas. Approximately 12.4 million people were facing food
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ORIGIN AND EXPANSION OF THE BANTU Bantu is used as a general label for the 300-600 ethnic groups in Africa who speak the Bantu languages‚ distributed from Cameroon east across central Africa and eastern Africa to Southern Africa. The bantu family is fragmented into hundreds of individual groups‚ none of them larger than a few million people (the largest being the Zulu with some 10 million).The bantu language-Swahili with its 5-10 million speakers is of super-regional importance as tens of millions
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mainly grown in Kenya‚ Ethiopia‚ Yemen‚ Somalia‚ Sudan and South Africa and it contains a monoamine alkaloid called cathinone and cathine mostly known for its stimulating effects. According to explorer sir Richard Burton‚ Khat was first grown in Ethiopia and later introduced to Yemen in the 15th century where it was considered as a divine food. It involves chewing of the leaves known as kad or the stems to release their stimulant chemicals and has been consumed for centuries. In Kenya it is mostly
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This story shows how the male leader aborigines were able to justify their assertive dominance over the women. Also in the highlands of central Kenya the Gikuyu display the same inequality of the sexes. However‚ this society is more relaxed in the sense that women are allowed to do things‚ but they can’t move up in the social hierarchy. In Facing Mount Kenya‚ Jomo Kenyatta explains the job division between the two sexes and also
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Essay #1 There are so many different forms of English that are used on the daily basis that we unknowingly switch up on. Some are based on the people that we are around and others are in the area or even situation that we may be in. we rarely notice when we change from one form to another. In Amy Tan’s article “Mother tongue” she shows how her mother’s unique English led her to go through many trials and obstacles and was overlooked by many. In this essay‚ I will show how some of the issues that
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An Assessment on the Strategic Implications for Tanzania Using Kiswahili as an Educational Language Up to the Higher Learning Institutions Introduction For a number of years‚ the United Republic of Tanzania has been strongly debating the use of Kiswahili language as an education medium from the lower levels‚ which are primary schools to the higher levels‚ (which means to be used in the colleges and universities). The debate has not been official‚ but academics‚ scholars and some politicians
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Mogadishu with 28 confirmed dead and 43 injured after a car bomb went off in January 2017. In addition‚ in its ten years of activity it has taken responsibility for numerous atrocious attacks killing soldiers and civilians in Somalia and neighboring Kenya. It is currently a banned terrorist organization by both the United States of America and the United Kingdom and various reports of foreign jihadist from both neighboring nations and the United States and Europe traveling to Somalia to join Al Shabaab’s
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kg in 2001) Result: environmental damage: deforestation Increase in indigenous population = poaching of gorillas The Mbuti Pygmies After World War 2: end of colonial rule East Africa: white settlers mostly resisted nationalist movements Kenya: the Mau Mau uprising
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The Maasaai Tribe of Africa The Maasai people live in southern Kenya and northern Tanzania. They started to migrate to northern Kenya in the 15th century . They occupy about a 160‚000 square kilometers with a population of about half a million. Their society is comprised of sixteen sections. The Maasai language comes from their ancestral ties to the Samburu and Nyemps‚ their language is called the Maa . They are a very independent tribe and have many traditional values and customs. There are
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fight for rights Made them want to succeed in modern world Nationalistic Leaders Jomo Kenyatta Spent years in England gaining support for native Kenyans Imprisoned for the Mau Mau uprising in 1952 First President of Kenya (1964 – 1978) Leopold Senghor Senegalese poet and politician and 1st president of Senegal (1960–1980) Held up by France as the personification of assimilation Studied at the Sorbonne and taught in Paris Was a German POW during
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