Time and again‚ we’ve wondered why African countries are still plagued in economic and industrial underdevelopment yet we boast of sufficient natural and human resources coupled with a large internal consumer and industrial market. Several reasons exist and some of the causes are initiated by our very own governments but most of the inadequacies have been forcefully injected into our systems by the colonial masters and other western powers. Historically‚ the colonial masters deliberately refused
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Background of the African Standby Force (ASF) Currently‚ the African continent leads other continents with the United Nations peacekeepers deployed worldwide in the African countries. Interestingly‚ African countries such as Ethiopia‚ Nigeria‚ Rwanda‚ Senegal‚ Kenya Uganda‚ and others have contributed immensely to the United Nations (UN) and the African Union (AU) missions in the world. It is surprisingly that the continent that has such security challenges also contributes the big number of troops
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’Feminism’ has often been seen as a Western concept‚ but African women are increasingly redefining it to suit their own purposes. This‚ in turn‚ is influencing the rest of the world. Today‚ on International Women’s Day 2013‚ one is likely to hear a raft of statistics that both celebrate and lament the status of women. While some indicators of gender equality have improved‚ others continue to shock and disappoint. And drawing firm conclusions using these different‚ discrete areas can often prove
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The Effects of Colonization on Modern African Cultures In November1884 - 1885‚ Europe met for The Berlin Conference in which Africa was sub-divided giving each current European powers a part to govern. This scrabble for Africa was an official degradation of all African future political power and present government. The utilization of African land‚ resources and people to build European powers was imposing and came with extensive consequences. The new European map sub-divided Africa injudiciously
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The African flower industry Introduction In Valentine’s Day‚ 2009‚ 200 million stemmed roses were delivered and ended up being sold all over the world (Dayo‚ 2009). As a supportive industry in Africa‚ flower industry gains benefits by accounted $300 million in Kenya’s foreign exchange earnings (Dayo‚ 2009) and companies’ establishing infrastructures to workers (Bloomfield‚ 2006). While it is also detrimental as the result of misusing laborers (Majtenyi‚ 2002)‚ over-producing carbon-dioxide (Whelan
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African History Class (Nov 7th 2013) Legacy of Colonialism: Political Consequences -Nation building: problem of ethnicity. Since 1997- DRC civil war‚ ethnic warfare. 1. Struggle of distribution 2. Struggle of domination. (How to distribute resources). (Who would control the state?) Ethnicity between 1960’s-1980’s there was a deliberation to repress ethnicity by Africa leaders. 1990’s –rise of politicized ethnicity (ethnic political parties). They struggle for the interests
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A brief background and history of African Music The African continent is the second largest continent in the world‚ and its people constitute a 10th of the world’s population with about one thousand indigenous languages spoken throughout the continent (Stone‚ 1998‚ p.2). In this context‚ it is important that a brief history of African music cannot be conclusive and is more complex than we realize. No scholar managed to offer a perspective about African culture that has not been contested. Given
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of English language on African education. As well as it’s reflection on the role it plays in African literature. I therefore disagree with the claim that‚ “In African literature and education‚ English should take precedence over indigenous languages”. I no longer see reason for English language to continue taking precedent over African languages. In this essay I will argue for the decolonization of the African Education system as well as the decolonization of the many African minds and tongues. I
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‘WESTERN UNION SHIFTING FOCUS TO TRANSACTIONS WITHIN AFRICA.’ INTRODUCTION This article under review is taken from the outlook section of The EastAfrican newspaper as for the dates between 19th to the 25th September 2011. It is a Q&A article with Western union’s present regional director southern and East Africa‚ Karen Jordaan. It was chosen in line with other online articles published two weeks prior that informed of the change in strategy being adopted by the global money transfer company
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America in 1861. When several of the Southern states broke away from the Union the Civil War was starting to fuel. From there one of the bloodiest wars in American history took place when the Confederates fired on Fort Sumter‚ the Federal military base in South Carolina. Through all of the battles and deaths‚ one of the greater aspects of the war was the courage and involvement of African-American soldiers and sailors of the Union army. In 1861‚ the United States Navy needed an astounding number of
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