deserves a lot of world attention. Robert Kaplan described West Africa as a region that “is becoming the symbol of worldwide demographic‚ environmental and societal stress‚ in which criminal anarchy emerges as the real “strategic danger.” Events in Liberia‚ before the election of Charles Taylor and Sierra Leone‚ before the restoration of the elected government of Tejan Kabbah confirmed this assertion. South Africa’s racial discrimination still rears its ugly head from time to time. North Africa still
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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 longestlasting civilizations
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should rich countries help the poor countries? There is so much debate surrounding the issue of rich countries should help the poor countries. Proponents think that rich countries should help the poor countries because loaning money to developing countries aids can helping them improvement the situation from poverty and disease. Opponents‚ think that the money doesn’t go for the place where they needs and the debt is a lot of pressure for the poor countries. In my opinion‚ that rich countries
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are running rapid worldwide. The book and film take readers to unusual countries‚ where the distress of women is becoming unbearable. Some of those countries include Cambodia‚ Kenya‚ India‚ Sierra Leone‚ Somaliland‚ Vietnam‚ Afghanistan‚ Pakistan‚ Liberia‚ and even the United States. By broadcasting the bravery of women and girls‚ who rise above their circumstances‚ shows that there is a light at the end of this tunnel of suppression. Talking about the nations individually in a negative way‚ may leave
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University of Ghana‚ Legon. Center for Peace and Cultural Studies (2011). Conflict Map of North and South Kivu‚ DRC. Univ. of St. Andrews‚ Scotland Center for Peace and Cultural Studies (June‚ 2011). Through Lederach’s Lens: A Sustainable peace for Liberia? Univ. of St. Andrews‚ Scotland
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000 children have been recruited by various governments and non-government forces to serve as soldiers‚ cooks‚ spies‚ wives‚ and messengers. More than 120‚000 of these children are in Africa‚ mainly in Angola‚ Burundi‚ Congo-Brazzaville‚ The DRC‚ Liberia‚ Rwanda‚ Sierra Leone‚ Sudan and Uganda (Abatneh 22). The horrible and tragic faith of many children is set on a path of war‚ murders and suffering. These former child soldiers need to be rehabilitated in order for them to be reintegrated back into
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Amadou Ham pâté Ba (1901-1991)‚ Malian ethnologist‚ narrator and author‚ played an important role in introducing the world to African oral heritage‚ especially the folktales of West Africa. The man known as the “living Memory of Africa” he liked to say he was “one of the eldest sons of the century‚” was one of the major intellectual literary figures of the 20th century. The saying with which he will always be associated for (his often quoted statement)‚ that “In Africa when an old man dies‚ a library
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The struggle to achieve equal rights for women is often thought to have begun‚ in the English-speaking world‚ with the publication of Mary Wollstonecraft’s A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792). During the 19th century‚ as male suffrage was gradually extended in many countries‚ women became increasingly active in the quest for their own suffrage. Not until 1893‚ however‚ in New Zealand‚ did women achieve suffrage on the national level. Australia followed in 1902‚ but American‚ British‚ and
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full‚ The Society for the Colonization of Free People of Color of America)‚ founded in 1816‚ was the primary vehicle to support the "return" of free African Americans to what was considered greater freedom in Africa. It helped to found the colony of Liberia in 1821–22 as a place
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and others were taken over Eritrea‚ a large part of Somaliland and Libya. Southwest Africa‚ Tanganyika‚ Togoland and Cameroon were ruled by Germany until Germany ’s defeat in World War I. By 1914 there were two independent countries left in Africa-Liberia and Ethiopia. And even Ethiopia was taken over by Italy in
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