Essays on Mozambique

A general move to broaden the security agenda occurred during the 1980s by expanding the focus from the security of the state or the nation to an alternative focus on the security of the people, or the global collective. The human security can be affected by economic welfare, environmental concerns, cultural identity, political rights, and military issues. In recent years, environmental degradation is increasingly being considered as a security problem by not just the environmental activists but also the security establishment as they have become more responsive to the idea. In late 1989, the journal of the International Institute ...

In the world today, cars have become one of the basic commodities that people cannot live without. This means that many people across the globe have increased their desires and likelihood to buy cars for themselves and their families, meaning that the car business has flourished across the world. Not every country manufactures car, but the most commonly countries that do manufacture sell them to other countries. Japan distributes both new and used cars to any willing country, and Tanzania is one of the trusted dealers that import them to sell to Tanzanian people as well as other willing ...

Analysis of Diseases

Overview Chikungunya (CHIK) refers to a re-emerging arboviral disease transmitted by the mosquitos Aedes aegypty and Aedes albopictus (Pialoux 318). The virus belongs to the genus Alphavirus and family Togaviridae. The word chikungunya derives from Makonde language (spoken in Tanzania and northern Mozambique), where it means “to walk bent over” (Halstead 557). This name refers to the main feature of both chronic and acute phase of the disease a change in posture causes by the arthritis and arthralgia (Charrel, Lamballerie and Raoult 769).

History

The disease gained its name after the outbreak in Tanganyika, the modern Tanzania in 1952. However, ...

I find the Rachel R. Chapman ethnography intriguing because it gives very interesting insights in a global health initiative on maternal health care and how maternal mortality rates in Southern Africa, particularly in Central Mozambique, can be improved. Reading on, I find some of the things addressed in the book weird and absurd; it doesn’t make sense to me that pregnancies are actually, for the longest time possible, hidden from others, or how they expose someone to social threats, envy and ill will. I think pregnancy is supposed bring joy to the pregnant woman and the community at ...

Economic transformation in Africa is tied to the colonial legacy. The spectre of colonialism haunts growth and development efforts. The African economy as it is known today has its roots in the colonial exploitation and appropriation of resources. Colonialism introduced capitalism with its idea of the free market but this free market benefited the colonizing nations, leaving unprecedented levels of poverty throughout the continent. Understanding the history of colonial primitive accumulation is critical to understanding the economic realities of present day Africa, in particular, the continent’s insistence on trading with countries like China. This paper seeks to explore ...

Islam in Mozambique

Mozambique is an independent, secular nation located in southeast Africa, northeast of the Republic of South Africa. It has a coastline along the Indian Ocean. Muslims constitute approximately one-sixth of the population, with Sunnis and Isma’ilis being the major factions. There has been a Muslim presence in Mozambique for centuries. There is a large ethnic Indian Muslim community in the north and scattered communities of mixed African, Arab and Portuguese ancestry in the rest of the country. These groups have been relatively isolated, both geographically and in terms of the practice of Islam. The Indian community tends to be rather strict ...