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    and snow covered mountains, and filled with exodic wildlife and an abundance of undiscovered wonders. Africa is a continent with approximately 1.2 billion people and over 1,250 different native languages spoken. Its unique history and culture creates an extremely diverse continent which has generated Africa’s countries to be immensely populated with tourists all over the world. Even though Africa is one of the most beautiful places on earth, it can also be one of the most dangerous for tourists to

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    Who is really for Africa When the colonists left they promised that they will help Africa in development.yes much of the aid still comes from our colonists but however the delopment has been slow.it is very strange that sook after African countries gained freedom there were power struggles orchestrated from withing or by external forces.what we see now in Syria,Iraq and Afghanistan is as a result of this madness.when America and England Iraq they left a power vacuum that soon after they left the

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    40 to 50% of sub-Saharan Africans live below the poverty line. This is a higher proportion than in any other region except South Asia stated (World Bank, 1996a). The effects of poverty in Africa are poor education, diseases, and overpopulation. One of the most devastating effects of poverty in Africa is poor education in most country households are making a considerable donation, which can have national and neighborhood consequences, by actually putting into education stated (Rempel & Lobdell

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    extreme poverty in many countries of the world for a long time. This is the biggest problem in Africa. Many different groups of people are being affected by this. This can cause terrible suffering and possibly even death. Poverty is the biggest problem because it leads to poaching, piracy, and the issue with child laboring and trafficking. Poaching is one of the leading effects of the poverty in Africa. There are many poachers who are seeking money, but the only way they look at finding it is through

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    Albinism In Africa Essay

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    Albinism in Africa Dismembered, attacked, kidnapped, and killed—these are horrific issues the average citizen would not even think of happening to them. However there is a group of people in Africa that live in fear of these violations. People living with albinism, a hereditary disorder where skin, hair, and eyes have no pigment, are having their basic rights being taken away from misconceptions of others. Inhumane attacks on albinos in Africa, caused by cultural myths and superstitions are being

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    The Spread Of Overpopulation In Africa

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    reaching the seven billion mark. Continents everywhere worry about what is to come with the rising population because it is causes many resources to deplete and diseases to spread. These very problems are already occurring on the continent of Africa.. In Africa, overpopulation is causing an immense amount of disease to spread more competently due to the close living quarters and a lack of clean water. Population around the world is rising hastily, so fast that the world’s population has just reached

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    Corruption in Africa Africa is a continent which is endowed with rich, vast and varying natural resources, it’s people have talents, intellects and expertise to propel the continent into development in the fields of Science, technology, economic, social welfare systems, health, education and environmental conservation measures which are a catalyst for progress both at an individual, national, regional and continental level that would have transformed the face of Africa for the better. However

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    Colonization of Africa

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    developing world from an economic, political and social perspective. The colonization of Africa has a long history, and can be explained

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    African history, it has left an imprint throughout the continent. This essay will look at how influential colonisation is in contemporary Africa, there are two main groups of scholars who argue how influential colonialism was in Africa the first is outlined by Gann and Duigan and they hold the view that the colonial era was ‘the most decisive for the future of Africa’. The alternative school of thought is held by British scholar A.G. Hopkins, who believed that colonial rule was less influential than

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    1. There are many ways in which Africa has been exploited by the international world historically. One way was through slavery. From when the first Portuguese ships arrived on west African shores in 1444 until 1885, the transatlantic slave trade has dominated the oceans for 440 years. Europeans set up the triangular trading system that exchanged enslaved Africans and plantation produce for European goods. Exploitation began with wars that were used to obtain slaves, and this is how the strongest

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