French West Africa

Archeologist have been able prove that Sierra Leone has been inhabited continuously for at least 2,500 years. Sierra Leone is a county is West Africa on the coast of the Atlantic Ocean. It is bordered by Guinea to the northeast and Liberia to the southeast. The center of the county is a region of the lowland plains which contain farmland and forests. Lowlands occupies about 43% of Sierra Leone’s land. The Northern region has forests and savanna and the south has rainforests. The climate of…

Who are the Tuaregs The Tuaregs are indigenous people and an ethnic group who live in North Africa, most living in an extensive part of the Western Sahara and some are located in the northern parts of Western Sudan (Nicolaisen & Nicolaisen, 1997). Tuaregs inhabit a widespread area of the Sahara desert across the boundaries of five countries (Algeria, Burkina Faso, Libya, Mali, and Niger). It has been estimated that the Tuareg population is 3 million people (Jensen & Vinding, 2005; Savage, 2008).…

The Rohingya are a Muslim ethnic minority group that has lived in Myanmar for centuries. Today, more than a million of Rohingya people are living in Myanmar, mostly in the western coastal state of Rakhine. They use their own language, and they have their own culture. However, Rohingya people claim that they have a long historical connection to Rakhine State. There are many conflicts and clashes between the Rohingya and the government, as well as some other ethnic groups in Rakhine. When Myanmar…

Sierra Leone is made up of some very harsh conditions in their country. The living conditions in this country are some of the worst in the world. The conditions, such as the housing, has not progressed in recent years. In fact, the so-called traditional house in Sierra leone is a clay and earth structure with a thatch roof (Henry). The houses are either round or rectangular with a veranda and two to three interior rooms (Henry). The kitchen is most often located outside of the house where the…

also discover villages struggling with thirst for two-fourths of the year while the wet season departs and the dry season begins. According to Andrew Mitchell, International Development Secretary for the British Government, the current drought in Africa is the worst in over fifty years and the international must do more to solve this humanitarian crisis. I believe that this epidemic of drought, disease and thirst is an undue burden on the people of Togo who are in dire need of a wet solution. …

Ebola: a word that for many triggers a somewhat distant memory back to 2014 when the whole world was up in arms about it spreading and becoming a pandemic. This incident of outbreak in West Africa shows how far we have come as a world, technologically and medically, but also how far we still have to go. The severity of the outbreak was completely avoidable, however due to the disregard of certain factors not usually associated with disease, such as cultural practices, it became an epidemic. In…

there have been an additional ten outbreaks of the virus worldwide. As of 2014, The West African Ebola outbreak was the largest and deadliest recorded in history, killing over 11,000 people. The Global Health Security Agenda (GHSA) is responsible for the global urgent call response. The troubling question is, at what extent will GHSA respond to aid a disease epidemic? Many lives could have been saved in West Africa if there was an urgent response to the virus outbreak. The Ebola virus disease…

chocolate is not sweet and evokes sadness for the children who work in the cocoa fields. Western African countries such as, Ghana and the Ivory Coast supply more than 70% of the world’s cocoa. Food Empowerment Project states that “The farms of Western Africa supply cocoa to international giants such as Hershey’s, Mars, and Nestlé—revealing the industry’s direct connection to the worst forms of child labor, human trafficking, and slavery”(food is power). Over the years journalists have been able…

slightly less than twice size of Texas is a landlocked countries that shares boarders with seven countries round it. It was boarded by Algeria in the North, Mauritania and Senegal in West, Ivory Coast and Guinea in the South and Niger and Burkina Faso in the East. Mali is considered as one of the biggest country in West Africa and ranking at 24th largest country in the world. The geographical areas of Mali are estimated around 478,839 square miles. Mali official’s name is the Republic of Mali.…

West Africa is home to a variety of nations that have experienced a political coup since gaining their independence from the European powers. All except for the nation Senegal. First, the aspect we shall consider Senegal’s economy in comparison to the other West African nations since gaining their independence. For example, does Senegal have a lower unemployment rate, lower poverty line and lower national debt when in comparison to other West African nations. Another factor could be the how…