Essays on Saharan

Archaeology is the study of both ancient and recent past of human beings through material remains. Archaeology gives us a unique perspective on the culture and the history of human beings which helps us understand both the ancient and the recent past of a certain group of people greatly. This study helps us understand where, when, why and how people lived on this planet. It also examines the different kinds of changes that human culture has undergone over time, and tries to seek an explanation for the changes. In this paper, we will be discussing the archaeology of both ...

Aims of research report

The African continent has received aid from developed countries and financial policy recommendations for decades. This thesis seeks to examine the existing empirical studies on the macro-micro paradox effects of foreign aid and free trade policies on GDP growth in Sub-Saharan Africa. In particular, this study explores the negative effects foreign aid has on the social contract that exists between the governments and its citizens by making governments less financially dependent on it’s populous, whether the interaction of international financial institutions (IMF, World Bank, WTO) that promote free trade policies as part of loan agreements with Sub-Saharan African ...

Introduction

The broad issue of gender equality and empowerment of women has been discussed in length and depth by various stakeholders in society. In fact, the topic stands out as one of the most highly debated issues through the years. The continued occurrence of incidences of gender discrimination clearly points out that the debates are yet to yield their ultimate objectives. The primary contention in all such arguments is the continuous portrayal of women as a lesser gender and thus belittling the morality and feminine’s obligations in society. Male chauvinists, who consider themselves superior and more potent have continuously ...

Background of Apple Inc.

Apple Inc. is an American technology company located in California. The company designs and develops software and electronics such as iPhone, Mac Pcs, and iPad. Apple also develops online services such as iTunes and Apple music. The company is multinational as it has operations in different countries. Apple buys and sells products from different parts of the world including Kenya and Mexico. Apple is one of the richest companies and manufacturers of mobile phones and consumer electronics. The company is known for its widespread consumer loyalty. Apple relies on the uniqueness of its products that has developed a strong ...

Information and Communication Teachnology

ABSTRACT As telemedicine is used throughout the rural parts of Africa, there are many professionals and patients who find the entire process very beneficial because there is an allowance for a decrease in transmission of highly contagious diseases such as MRSA (Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus). If there are clinics that are found in locations surrounding rural Africa, there are strong concerns that patients will be able to transmit their diseases to other people who are otherwise healthy. With the use of telemedicine, the patients and the health care providers can see each other through a confined space and there is ...

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Description of HIV

Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) is a virus that weakens and destroys the immune system of the body so that the body cannot defend the infection. HIV positive person also possesses AIDS (Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome), and if HIV is treated at its early stage, the risk of AIDS can be averted. If an HIV-positive person is diagnosed with AIDS, it means that the complete destruction of the immune system has been accomplished by the HIV and that increase the vulnerability of the patient towards various opportunistic infections. The ...

For this assignment, I have selected HIV/AIDS as the health issue and the country I have selected is Sub-Saharan Africa. 39% of the adults in Sub-Saharan Africa are on retroviral therapy. Swaziland in Sub-Sharan Africa, is the country that has the highest prevalence of HIV/AIDS in the whole of Africa and also the world. The prevalence of HIV/AIDS is 27.4% (AVERT, 2017). The total population in the country in 2015 was 1,287,000. In addition to HIV/AIDS, the country is also troubled by other major health issues like Malaria, Tuberculosis, Malnutrition, Alcoholism and Tobacco Use. The population growth ...

International Human Rights Law and Prisons in Africa

Term Paper 4500 words

Introduction

The International Centre for Prison Studies’ World Prison Brief, in its report suggested that over 10 million individuals are formally incarcerated in prison and correctional facilities around the world. According to the same Brief, even more are held in either military facilities where they are detained or in security or police facilities without any specific legal process underway. There are three categories that the United States’ (U.S). Government has for humanitarian and human rights concerns as they relate to these individuals who are housed in a detention facility that is; 1. unsafe in terms of ...

The following literature review evaluates scholarly research on the challenges of entrepreneurship, project management and sustainable development in Africa. Based on the discussion meaningful implications and suggestions are mentioned towards the end. Africa is a land of magnificent natural sceneries and resources but even in the 21st century it is still considered the Dark Continent, bearing metaphorical meaning. It is the least developed continent in the world. Despite major efforts in improving the lives of Africans there are many challenges that face the continent.

Sustainable Development in Africa

Africa has immense natural resources and precious minerals. For decades the practice of finding energy ...

The Solow Model

For long, the concept of economic change has been interesting economists. The reasons why some of the countries are poor while others are rich or even the understanding of why some nations grow faster than others has constantly disturbed the understanding of most economists. The theory of economic growth has been put upfront in explaining the growth indices of different nations. In its place, the theory of economic growth aims at explaining whether poor countries can grow faster than their rich counterparts, catch up with them and close their income gaps, that is converge. Elaborated by Trevor Swan and ...

Introduction

Malaria is caused by a mosquitoes’ bite that carries a Plasmodium parasite. Malaria’s symptoms are: shivering, fever, headache, chills, and sweating malaise. Malaria can turn out to be life threatening to infants, elderly or people with low immunity (Better Health Channel, 2015). Typically, malaria is transmitted through infected Anopheles mosquito’s bite. After the bite, Plasmodium parasite is released into the bloodstream. It takes 2 to 3 days for the parasites inside RBC (red blood cells) to multiply and causes infected cells of the individual to burst open. Malaria can also spread through an infected mother as she ...

A Summary of

The reviews on Africa’s solar based enterprises are quite recent and cover a majority of related topics. He has reviewed the factors that provided an impetus to solar power based enterprises and the existing opportunities. However, the need for some more reviews on the reasons addressing slow development in the field is evident. Nevertheless, it is successful in drawing the readers’ attention on the gaps existing in the current review of scholarly works. The three basic research questions raised in the study clearly underline its problems and the purpose. Through these questions the author seeks to address the ...

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Application of Drone Technology to Facilitate Effective HIV Diagnostic and Treatment Services to Children in Rural Malawi

INGO UNICEF 1Broadway, New NY 10022 USA Dear Sir, Drones without Borders (DWB) is an organization which has been created to serve HIV vulnerable children in rural Malawi through a partnership with ZipLine Drones. Our organization seeks to develop and implement an four-months program aimed at ensuring fast and continuous delivery of HIV test kits, results, and antiretroviral drugs to provide immediate medical attention to HIV positive children in rural, cut off, hard to access, often combat zone areas in Malawi. The mortality rate of the infected children has been on the rise due to lack of access ...

One health problem that is a challenge to the global arena is the AIDS/HIV infection. In developing countries like those in the Sub-Saharan Africa, there are about 24.7 million individuals who are positive with the HIV virus, and only 39 percent of the adults receive an antiretroviral treatment (AVERT, 2016). This means that their adult HIV prevalence lands at about 4.7 percent, which is a lot higher than that of the U.K. that is a developed country. In the U.K., there are only about 103,700 individuals who are positive of the HIV virus, which means their adult HIV ...

North America

Object 1: Medium: Wood and abalone Current location: Provincial Museum of British Columbia Image sourced from: Historica Canada . (2015, March 4th). Indigenous Art in Canada: Frontlet. Retrieved July 7th, 2016, from Historica Canada : http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/aboriginal-art-in-canada/ A product of the Tsimshan culture, this Frontlet features as one of many examples of North American aboriginal artistry. The frontlet has been suggested as one of the most noted art forms of the Iroquois civilization that occupied large swathes of Canada. The Iroquois created various abstractions of these Frontlets, also known as False Faces, and they were typically created to feature as sacred ...

Application of Drone Technology to Facilitate an Effective HIV Diagnostic and Treatment Services to Children in Rural Malawi

Director, Grant Organization Technology to Save Children from HIV is an organization that has been created to serve HIV vulnerable children in rural Malawi through a partnership with ZipLine Drones and UNICEF. Our organization seeks to develop a program aimed at ensuring fast and continuous delivery of HIV test kits, results, and antiretroviral drugs to provide immediate medical attention to HIV positive children. We propose the application of drone technology to facilitate easy and convenient transport of HIV testing supplies, test samples, and medication that has been hampered by the poor state of transport infrastructure in rural Malawi. We ...

CONTENTS I. Introduction 3 II. Overview of Fundraising Activities 3 a. Collecting online donations 4 b. Sending Direct mail appeals 5 c. Requesting Foundation Grants 6 III. Plan 7 a. Objective One – Development of the comprehensive, detailed and informative project proposal 7 b. Objective Two – Selection of the grant providers 8 c. Objective Three – Making Impressive and Persuasive Presentations 8 IV. Summary of the Grant Proposition 9

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Introduction In spite of the fact that many governments all over the worlds are constitutionally vested with responsibility of taking caring of their citizens, the living standards in many developing countries are ...

CONTENTS I. Executive Summary 3 II. Introduction 3

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A. Should Google Continue with Projects like Google Loon and Google Fiber? 5 B. Is the Innovation Model of Google Sufficient to Foster Innovation, or should it Change It? 7 C. What Steps Should Google Take to Increase the Confidence of Analysts and Investors in Its Innovation Strategies 9 III. Question 2 – What Should Google Do to Preserve Entrepreneurial Spirit 9 IV. Conclusions 10

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Executive Summary Among all the companies, which drive innovation, Google, Inc. enjoys a special place. The projects of this company changed the way people do business, the ...

In order to define ‘economic development’, I have looked into the literature on the subject to subsidize my answer. I have looked particularly into the works of Acemoglu, Laibson, & List (2016) and Rahnama-Moghadam, Samavati, & Dilts (1995). Acemoglu, Laibson, & List (2016, p. 205) indicate that the term less developed country (LDC) fosters images of backwardness, poverty, and lower levels of technological sophistication. They claim there is some truth in these images but, nonetheless, there is a broad range of countries that are correctly described as being less developed. One country has not reached the known levels of financial well-being that ...

1. The transatlantic slave trade has caused far-reaching changes in the economic and political life in Africa. In some areas, the development of the productive forces was completely fettered. The huge outflow of people, which can be compared with the bloodletting between XVII and XIX centuries suspended the increase of the population in the vast territories of West Africa (Lamie, 2007). Meanwhile, other parts of the world have experienced a fairly strong population explosion. With the forced slaves withdrawal, Africa deprived the most young and healthy people and it is the most valuable workforce (Lamie, 2007). Trying to downplay ...

China and Russia are two significant members of the group known as the BRICs. The other members are India, Brazil and South Africa. While China seeks to use its economic influence in buying world power, Russia seeks to regain its lost political influence by challenging the United States and Western Europe. This paper seeks to examine and explore China’s use of economic incentives in the form of cheap loans to gain influence in Sub-Saharan Africa. It also examines Russia’s constant antagonism with the United States and its allies in Eastern Europe and the Middle East. The argument ...

Global issue: Food insecurity

Today, the world suffers from numerous issues; from the security of life and property to the security of food and water. With the gradual but persistent rise in global temperatures, food and water resources in certain parts of the world are getting scarce and hard to conserve. This is problematic as with the passage of time; these resources are bound to get scarcer and lesser in amount. Moreover, poverty is another factor which makes it difficult for masses to get hold of nutritious and abundant food resources. When the factors of money and lack of resources are combined together, ...

1. Introduction

Background of the Research

Ethiopia is a Sub-Saharan country located in the Horn of Africa. The population of Ethiopia is estimated to be over 100 million inhabitants, making it the most populated landlocked country in Africa, and the second most populated country in Africa after Nigeria. Ethiopia is the only country in the Sub-Saharan Africa which has got a history of having its alphabets and calendar. Paradoxically, Ethiopia which has possessed alphabets for centuries is still one of the most illiterate countries in the world. This is the reason why some writers refer to Ethiopia as one country with alphabet and ...

The correlation between climate and vegetation is evident in Africa, where, despite the rapid destruction of natural vegetation by humans and animals, there are still vast areas of natural vegetation. There are two main zones in Sub-Saharan Africa.

AREAS OF EQUATORIAL FOREST

The rainforests cover just under 1000 km in latitude and approximately 2250 km from west to east, from the Cameroon coast and Gabon to the eastern borders of Congo - Kinshasa (to the mountains flanking the Rift Valley to the Ruwenzori, the Virunga Mountains and Ugoma (northwest of Lake Tanganyika). The equatorial forest has a wide variety of trees (very high ...

Conflicts in the African continent are notorious with their complexity. There are host of reasons for that. These include the complicated history of Africa, especially of the last several centuries when existing divergences were accentuated by the presence of colonists who imposed new circumstances and conditions. These also include many natural reasons stemming from climate conditions and geopolitical situation of Africa. These include as well the ethnical and tribal divergences that turned out to be the major fueling factor in the conflict that set it ablaze for almost fifteen years. There is one thing I am going to make ...

Article Analysis: World Poverty

Introduction In 2015, the United Nations is working with the World Bank’s ambitious plan to end extreme global poverty by the year 2030. This means that for the first time, every person in the world would afford common items and food to make their life easier. Many experts would debate on the main cause of poverty as it could be the changing trends in a certain country’s economy. Other factors would also include the lack of education, overpopulation, the presence of epidemic diseases like AIDS and malaria and even environmental problems like drought. Extreme weather can cause ...

Introduction

Resource curse has been one of the most debated economic issues for the past four to five decades. Indeed, it refers to a theoretical approach that connects certain indicators of a country’s economic growth to its reliance on natural resources such as oil, gas, and minerals. According to a general belief (termed as ‘resource curse’), the countries that are rich in natural and non-renewable resource are characterized by lower levels of democracy, economic growth, and development as compared to the countries with less or no reliance on these resources (Sachs, and Wartner, 2001). On the basis of the ...

BUSINESS IN EMERGING MARKETS

Introduction The theory of natural resource curse can be founded back from the 1970s. Resource curse has been an important topic for researchers since two subsequent decades; multiple research efforts have proposed the association between the production of resources, numerous socio-political ills, and, economic underperformance. The role of natural resources in the growth of the economy has been a question of immense debate. If the role of natural resources is considered in common sense, then economic growth theories propose that natural resources are the gift and economies through building their capital can grow economies. However, if the revenue spending ...

A fundamental problem facing new democracies is the hijacking of the political process by elites. Economic performance is affected by elite politics leading to underdevelopment and sometimes morphing into political violence. The transition from colonial regimes to democracy has been subverted by the harm that was done by the colonial subversion of traditional institutions in favor of artificial Western ones. This provided an opening for the rise of elites and the rule of ‘the big men’ (Owusu, 1992). What role do elites play in transition to democracy or its opposite? This paper seeks to provide an analysis on how ...

Often times, we see advertisements of known celebrities such as Angelina Jolie encouraging people to help Africa. How severe is poverty in Africa? Many literatures would mention that Africa is the poorest continent on the planet. The graver reality is that majority of the world’s population is not aware of the devastating effects of this poverty such as disease, hunger and lack of basic necessities. Donating to Africa is not only a call for civic mercy but more of a humanitarian aid to the people who are victims of poverty. There are many ways wherein people can help ...

The series of economic issue is aimed at making the availability of a broad readership of none- specialists that are produced by economic research on topical issues by the International Monetary Fund. The causes of rural poverty are complex and multidimensional (Khan). They include cultural practices, climate, public policy, gender, and markets for the products. Additionally, poverty in rural areas is diverse concerning the problems they face and the possible remedies to the above problems. Therefore, this paper will discuss the causes of rural poverty, factors that are accounting to its persistence, economic policies for poverty reduction in developing ...

Two of the most important components for a good governance are the establishment of an effective education and health care programs that would benefit the majority. Seemingly, there are a lot of factors to be considered on how every nation can improve the overall value of these programs. This paper will provide distinct comparisons of how education and health care programs both Africa and the United States affect its governance and socio-economic status. Let us first focus on the status of health care for both Africa and the United States. It is a fact that the United States is ...

[The Course]

The class “Sub-Saharan Africa” covers the most important aspects of the region’s history and its modern state, which include comparison of the economic growth between SSA and other regions of the world, historical factors, which led SSA to its current situation. The class also describes initial post-colonial conditions providing SSA a range of the opportunities at the beginning of 1960s, economic performance factors. Finally, the reasons of not learning Eastern Asian countries lessons are analyzed and the further regional policy proposals are developed. Though the Sub-Saharan countries had better preliminaries for sustainable development in the early ...

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Introduction HIV is considered as a major global health issue. Approximately 38.1 million people have been affected by HIV since 2000 and over 25.3 million are known to have died due to HIV/AIDS associated health issues (Vermund, & Leigh-Brown. 2012).The global prevalence of HIV is 0.8% with nearly 36.9 million people to have been living with HIV as per a 2014 report. Nearly 2.6 million people have been infected with HIV. The number of HIV victims is high in low-income and middle-income nations. As per the 2014 data, nearly 1.2 million have died due to HIV associated diseases. As ...

The Cultural Effects on Economic Development in Sub-Saharan Africa

Development can easily be defined as a gradual, warm and considerate process that attempts to alleviate man’s technological and economic standards or conditions without disrespecting or disregarding his social, political and cultural values (Edigin, 2010). Consequently, it is impossible to divorce development from a people’s culture. For any development to be successful, it must have its roots in the culture of people (Nzongola-Ntalaja, 1996). The cultural patterns of any given community will determine whether change will be welcomed or rejected by that community. If a culture is supported and protected, there are usually a number of valuable ...

Sedimentary rocks are naturally occurring rocks with significant physical and chemical properties. They are of three types, namely clastic, chemical and organic. While clastic sedimentary rocks form as a result of consolidation of minerals or rock fragments, chemical sedimentary rocks form through the precipitation of minerals from solutions . On the other hand, organic sedimentary rocks form as a result of compression of plant and animal remains. Sedimentary rocks form near the surface of the earth and depend on the environment of their deposition and transporting agents. Some of the common examples of sedimentary rocks are limestone, conglomerate, sandstone, coal, ...

Analysis of NTD

Summary Neglected tropical diseases (NTD) refer to the diseases that traditionally have received less attention as compared to other global health infections such as Malaria, TB or AIDS. Despite of this fact it is estimated that sixty percent of the globes population- about 1.4 billion people suffers from at least one of the NTDs. Most NTDs are not fatal but this is not to mean that they do not cause any negative effects. NTD have been known to cause disfigurement, disability and for making the patients suffer from other effect such that they become unable to go to schools ...

Introduction

In contemporary world the spread of the globalization influences the behavior of the people within the business units and different organizations. With that, the style of the conduction of the negotiations is faced the numerous amendments as well. In other words, it is highly important for the leaders of the organizations to have the appropriate corporate and leadership skills in order to pursue the realization of the goals and objectives of the organization for protection of the rights and values of the humans. This paper focuses on the consideration of leadership skills of Kofi Annan as one of the ...