Essays on Central Africa

Introduction

Zika virus also termed as ZIKV is a known to have gained worldwide attention, especially in the USA, South East Asia, and Australia. The Zika belongs to the Flaviviridae family which comes under the genus Flavivirus (Wikan & Smith. 2016). The Zika virus is spread though day time mosquitoes belonging to the Aedes family. Some of the most common mosquitoes to contain and spread Zika include A. aegypti and A. albopictus. The name of Zika originated in 1947 where it was first isolated from the Zika forest in Uganda. Based on evidence, the Zika virus was associated with varying viral ...

In 1994, Rwanda, a country in central Africa, exploded into civil war. However, the fighting in Rwanda would not be limited solely to fighting between two civil military forces; instead, the country exploded into a full-scale genocide seemingly overnight. Although the events of the Rwandan genocide lasted only a few months, the participants were committing genocide at a rate faster than the rate of genocide during the Holocaust (Gourevitch & Stewart, 2015). Over the course of these few months, Rwanda went from a relatively stable country to one that was experiencing significant political turmoil. The events of the Rwandan civil ...

List of Figures

Figure 1: Personal Hygiene advocacy Figure 2: Creating awareness on HIV Figure 3: EMS Ambulance in Action

Executive Summary/ Abstract

SoCal-Care is an organization which was formed in the year 2011 by a group of twenty medical students from the Texas Medical School. The main aim of this group was to help the people in the society, especially women, and small children, by giving them assistance to attain medical care. The group of students came together due to the various medical problems that women and children faced in various parts of the world. The group of students sets their mission to assist ...

Introduction

The paper aims to tackle the constituents of Genocide. It also aims to tackle the differences and similarities of the Holocaust and the Rwanda genocide. Although at the core, both the Rwandan Genocide and the Holocaust are originated in racist ideologies, deep hatred and discrimination; at the surface they present the world in different views. The ways society accepted and aided both circumstances as well as the socio-cultural factors that provoked these atrocities were differentiable. In order to attain the paper’s objective, this paper will first give the definition of genocide, then facts about Rwanda Genocide and holocaust. ...

The River and the Chimp is an analytical book written by David Quammen about how the HIV originated from chimpanzees in an African forest (Quammen, 2015). The acumen of this book challenges the many unscientific beliefs about the origin of HIV and spread. There is a great need to understand where this scourge originated to beat the diverse stereotypical and unscientific beliefs. By examining the works of David Quammen in the book The River and the Chimp, this research paper shall focus on discussing the origin of HIV. The knowledge of the origin of HIV is of immense importance ...

Colonialism is one of the most actual issues of the modern historical science. The formation of colonial regimes entailed profound changes in the economic situation of the African population and reflected in the nature and way of their management. The British and French colonial models were quite different, but I am not sure whether it will be correct to say that colonies were only raw appendages of the empires and got nothing in exchange. The process of colonization of Africa has become widespread in the second half of the XIX century, especially after 1885 and the beginning of the ...