Transcript A F R I C A A continent’s struggle

AFRICA
A continent’s struggle
by Heather Braucher
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Africa’s Struggles
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Illiteracy
Famine
Disease
Natural Resource Depletion
Government Instability
Natural Disasters
Unemployment
Genocide
Root Causes of Problems
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Political Corruption
Human Rights Violations
Colonialism
Artificial Boundaries
Tribal Traditions
Ignorance
Corporate Interests
Illiteracy
• Literacy- the ability to
read and write
• Illiteracy- inability to
read or write
• Literacy ratepercentage of people
who can read and
write above the age of
15
• Literacy Rates
United States-99%
Niger-28.7%
Ethiopia-42.7%
Kenya-85%
FamIne
A drastic widespread shortage of food;
lack of food over a long period of time
Causes
Drought-lack of rain over a long
period of time
Overgrazing- allowing too much
grazing by large herds of cattle
Desertification- change of fertile land
into land that is too dry or damaged
to support life caused by overgrazing
cattle
http://sandmc.pwv.gov.za/comp/Drought.htm
What about using bio-fuels?
Disease
A condition of an organism (including people) that
makes it unable to function in a normal way
Causes
unsafe water
pollution
lack of nutrition
no access to immunizations (shots)
inadequate waste disposal
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Malaria
Sleeping Sickness
bites from tsetse fly
Sickle Cell Anemia
Tuberculosis
Parasites
AIDS
http://www.hobotraveler.com
Natural Resource Depletion
Natural Resource- any thing found naturally in the earth
that can be used
Depletion- the use or consumption of a resource,
especially a natural resource, faster than it is
replenished
Causesstrip mining
not rotating crops
slash and burn
forests
http://www.daylife.com
Government Instability
Nations ruled by colonial powers were
suddenly given autonomy (self-rule).
CausesPolitical divisions were drawn by colonial
powers and not indigenous people.
Military dictators still fight for power in
many regions leading to wide spread
violence
Lack of Education
Death from Natural Disasters
• Floods
• Drought
Causes
No rain, too much rain
El Nino, La Nina
Lack of warning systems by government
Unemployment
When people are seeking work and cannot
find it.
CausesAfricans were forced to change tribal ways
of living under colonialism.
After gaining self rule, many Africans were
left with no education or job training.
Unemployment World Wide
2006
Genocide
The systematic and planned extermination
of an entire national, racial, political, or
ethnic group.
Causeshatred by rival tribal groups
ignorance(lack of education)
military coups trying to gain power
Nigeria
Conflict Open oil wells
constantly spew out
oil onto farm land
making it unusable
and cause pollution.
90% of country’s
income comes from
oil profits
Rumuekpe, Rivers State, Nigeria
Ghana
Conflict Baboons are
eating subsistence
farmers’ crops because
people are cutting down
the forest and planting
crops. The people are
cutting down more
forests because fish are
being depleted from the
sea by commercial
fisherman.
Uganda
Conflict Animal
poachers are killing
gorillas and other
protected species.
These animals are
becoming
endangered.
http://animals.nationalgeographic.com
/animals/mammals/mountain-gorilla.html
Zimbabwe
Conflict President Robert Mugabe, a military
dictator has led the country to massive
inflation, human rights violation, and a
general bad state of affairs for the citizens.
• http://www.pacda.org
• http://www.globalissues.org
• https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the
-world-factbook/geos/ng.html
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countri
es_by_literacy_rate
• www.dkimages.com
• http://soils.usda.gov/use/worldsoils/papers
/desertification-africa.html