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    to industry-based economy, and general change in living models. The current improvement circumstance of Africa is dumbfounding. Despite the fact that it is the wealthiest mainland as far as common assets, Africa remains the poorest and the slightest created district of the world., Africa is the last worldwide outskirts that will take after the current developing forces. The economy of Africa of China, India and South America Consists of the exchange, business, farming, and human assets of the continent

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    travels through bodily fluids. When evolved, there is a possibility to become air born. Monkeys, pigs, or fruit bats infected with the virus that come in contact with humans start the spreading. There are many health workers being sent to West Africa to teach the people of Liberia’s Foya District, Sierra Leone, and Guinea how to prevent further spreading of Ebola. In addition, isolation units are being built in these locations as an attempt to prevent further spreading of this deadly virus.

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    1 of “Mistaking Africa,” it reminded me of our first class meeting. Professor Crowley asked us to do the same exercise Curtis Keim talks about in the text. Professor Crowley asked us what comes to mind when we think about Africa. It is a great exercise and allow us to express our perceptions of Africa. Even in class, it took me time to think about what comes to mind when I hear the word Africa, because I have not really heard much about it besides the common misconceptions: “Africa is a primitive

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    The key obstacle to OBOR in Africa is the state of constant warfare experienced throughout the continent. For as far as can be remembered, war and conflicts have burdened Africa's development. The five types of conflicts that have afflicted Africa include anti-colonial, imperial, international, inter-state and intra-state conflicts. Up to today, many countries in Africa have experienced/are experiencing wars of "regime change" with the Democratic Republic of Congo being a perfect case study, as well

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    Today I read “U.N. Condemns Sex Abuse by Peacekeepers in Africa” by Mary Bowerman and Oren Dorell. This article was published on January 13th, 2016 on USA Today. This article was about how U.N. peacekeepers are going to the Central African Republic and having sex with underage girls. Bowerman and Dorell go on to talk about how the sexual violence by peacekeepers is a violation of human rights and must be investigated. I chose to read and analyze this article because the title intrigued me. The words

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    The Making of Modern Africa: Colonialism Take a look at the past, our history; although there is only one factual outcome, there are an infinite number of opinions, perspectives and almost always more than one side to a story. I will be taking a look in to the novel, Colonial Africa, written by Dennis Laumann, as well as, African Perspectives on Colonialism, by A. Adu Boahen, and hopefully through this, we can gain a stronger understanding of Colonialism in Africa and how Boahen and Laumann compare

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    Parts of Africa were conquered by one of the great European country Italy.Between 1881 and World War 1 of 1914 Italy colonized Libya,Ethiopia,Entrea Eastern Somalia ,Abania ,some greek islands and Croatia.Italy began to accept Imperialism because many other European countries were expanding their territories all over the world and created small or large colonies.So Italy decided to conquer parts of Africa to expand their territory as well.During the 1800’s other European countries colonize Africa,therefore

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    Colonialism Effect of Africa As the world races for its place in history, many continents excel on their mark on the map. It is because Africa was in the right place, but in a different time they were taken advantage of their glory. Although it is difficult for Africa to retrace and reclaim its memoirs, it has an origin that had existed before colonialism. The attempt of challenging modern history has desperately provided an economical realm that extracts and injects into Africa resources. Due to

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    Unfortunately, Africa and American both experienced colonialism a long time ago. Colonialism, after all, is a political system in which an external nation takes complete control of a territory in another area of the world. Moreover, the colonized people do not invite the colonial power, nor do they have any say in how they are governed. Colonialism is by definition and practiced un-democratic! The displeasure experience brings them a lot of similarities, and the same time, it brings them some differences

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    extractive industry, meaning mining in South Africa is huge and is a significant money maker for the economy. However, mining comes at the cost of environmental degradation and health hazards for communities. Also, Malcom touched on neoliberalism trade policies between industrialized countries and undeveloped countries and the problems with the system. Industrialized countries have the advantage in many situations. I noticed while staying in South Africa there are many big petroleum companies from

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