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    Asia and sub-Saharan Africa Islam influenced sub-Saharan African culture without incorporating African states into a Middle Eastern core. During much of the classical period‚ links between sub-Saharan Africa and the civilized cores were limited. Between 800 C.E. and 1500 C.E.‚ contacts between Africa and other civilizations intensified. One of the most important of the cultural influences was the conversion of some African states to Islam. Islamization connected Africa more closely to a Eurasian

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    Continuity Over Time 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

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    Introduction Malaria is one of the leading causes of mortality rates in most parts of Sub-Saharan Africa. Caused by Plasmodium Falciparum‚ the disease serves as one of the leading threats to human population across the continent. Theoretical concepts tend to front mosquitoes and hence the parasite it carries as the main reason behind the high impacts of Malaria. However‚ research indicates that the spread of the effects of malaria has majorly been caused other health factors‚ for instance‚ decline

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    children which this circumstance has affected. The plight of the orphan is singular and unique to each individual; however‚ in some cases there are geographicalpolitical‚ cultural and/or other variable factors that affect very large populations of orphans‚ sometimes unilaterally. This appears to be the case for orphaned children living in sub-Saharan Africa. Geographically‚ sub-Saharan Africa consists of all the countries located south of the Saharan dessert in the continent of Africa. Orphans

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    EFFECTS OF GLOBALIZATION IN SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA ABSTRACT It is factual that globalization began before the industrial revolution was existent in the colonial period and continues to be a major influence on how governments worldwide operate. When analyzing the effects of globalization‚ a common controversial debate is whether globalization has maimed the society or has brought significant benefit. The African society is used severally by anti-globalists to defend their views. This paper explores

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    Mrs.Bryant 24 May 2013 Over the course of many years‚ parts of Sub Saharan Africa have decreased in their population because of the STD AIDS. The African government plays a significant role in the reason behind the way AIDS has spread throughout Africa‚ as an epidemic. When AIDS was beginning to be well known‚ many African leaders did intervene and showed moral support for some time. Unfortunately‚ they fell short of providing adequate resources to the African people such

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    sustainable agriculture” (The New York Times 1). This is one of the seventeen Global Goals and it targets one of the initial struggles being faced by nearly every country/nation‚ in some way on some level. Although the many countries faced with hunger and starvation fall under the inferred notion of having no food as the cause of their deprivation‚ this is not the case. In fact‚ they do have foods‚ but it is the lack of other various types of food that they lack which all in all leads to poor nutrition

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    Music is significance of Sub-Saharan Africa and today in the 21 century it is an important aspect of our everyday life. Today’s society just as in comparison to Sub-Saharan music is used for a wide variety of things such as songs to recount history or songs praising leaders. African music is relatively related to dancing just as it is today. Some may say it stimulates our brain for instance when you here our favorite song played on a radio you automatically start to dance as if it was a reflex.

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    QUESTION OF: FINDING EFFECTIVE MEASURES TO SUCCESSFULLY DISARM MILITIAS IN CENTRAL AND SUB SAHARAN AFRICA FORUM: DISARMAMENT COMMISSION SUBMITTED BY: SOUTH KOREA Disarmament Commission‚ Realizing that the UN human rights expressed concern about the treatment of prisoners‚ especially sub-Saharan Africans‚ who the militias assume to have been fighting for Al Gaddafi‚ Recognizing the role of Amnesty International delegates who interviewed scores of victims of torture who were held in and around

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    Journal of Economic Perspectives—Volume 24‚ Number 3—Summer 2010—Pages 207–232 Mobile Phones and Economic Development in Africa Jenny C. Aker and Isaac M. Mbiti S ub-Saharan Africa has some of the lowest levels of infrastructure investment in the world. Merely 29 percent of roads are paved‚ barely a quarter of the population has access to electricity‚ and there are fewer than three landlines available per 100 people (ITU‚ 2009; World Bank‚ 2009a). Yet access to and use of mobile telephony

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