What is the Cause of the High Maternal Mortality Rate in Sub-Saharan Africa? The causes could total 50 or they could be only one‚ what are the primary causes of the high maternal mortality rate in sub-Saharan Africa? There are 4 major reasons why this impoverished region of the world grapples with such a challenge. First and foremost is the magnitude of poverty in the region. Secondly‚ the lack of maternal services available to the population both pre and post delivery. Thirdly‚ the lack education
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The process of economic independence does not occur concurrently with the process of political independence. When a former colonial possession achieves political independence‚ their economy is still engaged in a colonial economic system; this is apparent nowhere more so than in sub-Saharan Africa. The ability for the new state to transition from the colonial system to the current global capitalist system is a process of establishing institutions within the state to foster domestic growth and create
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terms of economic growth hence increasing a nations wealth. This could in turn be used to improve the social well being of the citizens. The downside to this kind of development is that it pays attention to creation of wealth with a total disregard on the consequences that the activities leading to the creation of the wealth will have on the population or even the environment. According to the UNDP’s report of 1996 titled Beyond Economic Growth‚ “human development is the end- economic growth the
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to interact with humans and the environment by settling into varying parts of West and East Africa and creating a network with their neighbors in order to receive new technologies and foods. The Bantu exchanged goods with local hunter-gatherers‚ and the people cut into forests and settled down into villages. The Assyrians first brought iron to Egypt around 600 BCE and it quickly spread to Sub-Saharan Africa. Around 200 CE‚ Indonesians settled on the coast bringing Asian bananas and‚ since they had
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The countries that comprise sub-Saharan Africa rely more on their natural resource base for economic and social needs than any other region in the world. Two out of three of sub-Saharan Africa’s people live in rural areas and depend on agriculture and other natural resources for income. However‚ the environmental resource base of the region is shrinking rapidly. Environmental problems of sub-Saharan Africa include air and water pollution‚ deforestation‚ loss of soil and soil fertility‚ and a dramatic
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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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Religions in Sub-Saharan Africa “Listen more often the Things Beings‚ Voice of Fire means‚ Hear the Voice of Water. Listen to the Wind Le Buisson into tears: It is the breath of the ancestors.” This excerpt comes from Senegalese Birago Diop’s poem “Souffles” which shows ancestor worship in Sub-Saharan Africa. Throughout history‚ Sub-Saharan Africa experienced multi-religious changes throughout 500 BCE - 1750 AD‚ beginning with animism‚ polytheism‚ and anthropomorphic worship of a god; however they
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Sub-Saharan Africa: The Causes of Postcolonial State Failure On the vast continent of Africa‚ there are fifty-three countries; of these only six are not located below the Sahara Desert. This
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Essay Topic: Religion in Sub-Saharan Africa from 1450 to the present Beginning Middle End |Trans-Saharan trade (gold‚ salt) brought Islamic ideas into |Slave trade ended in the 1860s‚ but Europeans continued to convert|Decolonization was aided by the weakened economic power of Europe‚| |sub-Saharan Africa from North Africa. |Africans into Christianity because of the "scramble" for Africa. |and by the 1960s most of
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example‚ for sub-Saharan Africa‚ poverty is the reality for almost half of the population. Africa is the poorest continent on earth by a long shot. Except for three‚ 28 of the poorest countries in the world are in Africa. The incidence of poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa is increasing faster than the population. Overall‚ the pace of poverty reduction in most of Africa has slowed since the 1970s. Consequently‚ over 40% of people living in sub-Saharan Africa live in absolute poverty. Poverty in Africa is caused
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