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    | Primary education in sub-Saharan Africa | | | 3/19/2012 | Policy Briefing Paper | | Primary education and enrolment levels in sub-Saharan Africa remain a major development issue in the 21st century. The region has seen levels of primary enrollment climb from 47% to 87% since 1950 (UN 2010). It is now evident that nearly everywhere in the world; there are currently more children in receipt of primary education than 15 years ago. Nevertheless‚ 15% of all children around the globe‚ and 25%

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    THEMES (SCRIPTED):1. Politics 2. Social Structure 3. Economics/Interactions TIME PERIODS: 1. 400-600 CE 2. 600-1000 CE 3. 1000-1450 CE THESIS As the political and social structures of Sub-Saharan Africa developed during the years 400 - 1450 C.E.‚ hierarchy structures based on kinship were maintained‚ however self-contained city-states grew into large empires. BEGINNING TIME PERIOD INTERIM TIME PERIOD END TIME PERIOD

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    Relative Isolation on Sub-Saharan Africa Relative isolation affected the development of sub-Saharan African cultures. The lack of contact with other African societies and non-African societies helped shape many distinct groups with individualistic forms of religion‚ language‚ and customs. Religion can only spread by contact with other people. There are two main religions in the Middle East and in Europe that have gained dominance and fight to maintain power. Religions such as Greek mythology

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    are afflicted with the disease throughout the world‚ this pandemic affects the continent of Africa the most by far. In Africa‚ the disease is increasing at an alarming rate. Even though increased effort is put in around the world to prevent AIDS‚ this widespread disease has increased significantly in the past decade. The toxic ailment continues to spread with a disturbing force and it has taken a long time to finally slow it down. In the late 2000’s‚ approximately 40 million people around the world

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    the group was in the ascendant last year‚ it turned its gaze across Nigeria’s border to the east‚ having recruited Cameroonians in leaner times.

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    1. What was the function of the griot in sub-Saharan African culture? The function of the griot in sub-Saharan African Culture was to transfer cultures through oral communication. They were West African professional singers and storytellers that told oral traditions including stories‚ histories‚ and epics‚ they were considered a repository of oral traditions. 2. Why were bananas and camels so significant in early African history? What do they represent? How did they change the way people lived

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    Using appropriate examples‚ discuss the implications of HIV and AIDS on development in SubSaharan Africa. HIV and AIDS is a critical issue for development in SubSaharan Africa because of the scale of HIV infection and the numbers of deaths that occur in the main productive and reproductive age group 15-49 year olds (Jackson‚ 2002). The Ministry of Health and Child Welfare (2004) donates that the epidemic has caused and is continuing to cause untold suffering among those infected with the

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    Africa is the world’s second-largest and second-most populous continent. In measure of wealth it is one of the wealthiest continents in terms as natural resources. Although Africa’s abundant amount of natural resources‚ it remains the world’s poorest and most underdeveloped continent. This could be a result of many things such as corruption within the government‚ failure in central planning‚ and lack of access to foreign capital. Sub-Saharan Africa is the least successful region in the world in reducing

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    section #3053 Prof. Melvin Aaron June 31 2012 Sub-Saharan Africa: A Threat to Global Stability Still recovering from malicious colonialism‚ the southern half of Africa has incurred several other factors contributing to the regions underdevelopment. The southern half has a general inability to contain AIDS‚ corruption‚ and war in the region. Racism is still prevalent‚ there are dire food shortages‚ and to add‚ there is mounting debt in almost every country in the southern part of the continent

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    of global warming is slowly affecting the food production by the greenhouse gases emitted from animal farm production‚ thus‚ leading to an economic loss and great starvation especially in Sub-Saharan Africa. Southern States of America are also likely to suffer from global warming‚ however‚ it would be able to address the calamity quickly unlike Sub-Saharan Africa. Given that 56 billion

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