Growing Up In Gambia

After a short ten-minute walk home from school, when I finally arrived at my house, I flopped onto the couch. It was a Friday afternoon, and I was ready for the football game that night, and for the weekend to begin. My mom was sitting on the couch across from me and asked me how my day at school was. I described to her what had happened that day, and the stuff we did in my classes. As we get done talking about school, she inquired

When students think of educational schooling, they think of grueling hours of sitting in a classroom and getting lectured about things they do not believe they will ever apply to the real life. Maybe it is just me. Not many students in the more richer and developed countries will ever realize how privileged they are. It is so easy to say that they do not like or want something even when it is presented to them. However, there are still places that are not given the opportunity to improve their lifestyles because they do not have an access to schooling. Access to education is a very important factor to bridge the gap between developed and underdeveloped countries. It is also the reason that humans have gotten this far in history. Without teaching

Growing up in an African American Muslim home, education was taken very seriously. My mother was the only one in her family that graduated from college, so she had high expectations for her children and wanted us to achieve in education. My parents not only believed in acquiring a good education, but they also believed in the Nation of Islam concept of “one should be self-sufficient.” Elijah Muhammad, the leader of Nation of Islam said “Life means you have activity in accord with your nature. If you are poor in spirit, then you are not doing for yourself what the energy of life would call you to do. When you are a living person, you don’t ask others to feed you, clothe you, shelter you, educate you, and give you a job.”

The belief that an education is valuable when it is used to serve your community was instilled in me at a very young age. Growing up in a small village in Nigeria, West Africa, I was surrounded by an African culture with a rural rustic lifestyle. I saw poverty, sickness, death and suffering on a daily basis. I learned to build deep relationships with people of all age groups; from kids who were my playmates, to moms whose babies I helped care for, and grandmas cooking over firewood or selling in market stalls. I learned to value and treat all people with respect, appreciate them, and to always take the time to help others.

It is important that people have the opportunity for an education, which will allow him or her to earn a living for themselves and for their families. Most people, given the chance, will work hard to help their families. With a good education, one can learn skills that will be the most powerful tools that he or she can have to rise out of poverty. There are ways in which one can attend school, such as with grants or loans. With the lack of education, one’s job opportunity will be limited. Most employers want their employees to have an education. People in poverty do not always have the chance to go to school or even to finish school. They are needed to work for the family by getting low paid jobs that will keep them in the poverty which they are living

I was born and raised in an isolated rural area where traditional agriculture is the main source of income of inhabitants, while the surrounding communities have the same life style. At that time, most of the families have no propensity to allow their children to get an education. Fortunately, my family is one of those few that allow their children to get an education; this path is still kept in the same trend by our family.

As a young child, I learned that education would be beneficial to not only myself but also all humankind. Growing up in a Northeast Florida housing project my father and mother did the best they could to raise nine children. My father worked seven days a week in the service industry as a waiter and bartender while my mother worked as a domestic employee in the homes of more affluent people in the south. My father had an eleventh grade education and my mother had not passed the tenth grade before she bore her first child. Neither parent completed high school but they had dreams of their children far exceeding their educational accomplishments. I was child eight of the nine and I knew early on that I did not want to live

all over the world today. One of poverty’s leading causes is lack of education, and one of the

Military regimes that favor Islamic-situated governments have controlled national politics since Sudan gained freedom from Anglo-Egyptian co-rule in 1956. Sudan was entangled in two post-independence civil war amid the greater part of the rest of the twentieth century. These wars were based on the northern Muslims, Arabs economic, political, and social control of the more largely populated non-Muslim, non-Arab southern Sudanese. The first war ended with the 1972 Addis Ababa Agreement, which granted significant regional autonomy to southern Sudan on internal issues. (CIA 2015)

I think it is so interesting how the history of Liberia is involved with America. I had no idea that the American Colonization Society sent freed slaves back to Africa. I cannot fathom what it must have felt like to be taken as a slave to a country and then return as a free person, but still have your country’s flag resemble the country that enslaved you. The culture of Liberia seams very deep with the clothes they wear and foods they eat.

I went through elementary and middle school, and high school finally came along. Towards the end of ninth grade, there was an honor roll assembly. I received a few awards and was so excited to get home and show my mom. As soon as I got home, I went straight to my mom and tried to talk to her about it, but she stopped me and said, “ Winsly, I have something to tell you.”

Coming of age is very important. It is when you prove that you can take care of yourself and when you set off on your own and become independent. Also, it is when you begin a new life, one where you can make your own decisions. This is very important in the Igbo culture. When the child turns of age to become an adult, it is not that different than western societies.

Another contribution to poverty is inadequate education and employment. Something we take for granted in a developed country is the ability to have access to education. Many children in third world counties have diminutive knowledge about

According to Conley many kids living in a poverty situation fall behind in the educational aspect of their life. This is because their parents are not able to purchase the educational toys they need to help their cognitive skills grow. Between this and the lack of nutrition this is where the children start to really show their exposure to a poverty life. It is important to have proper nutrition and to develop the cognitive skills early in life so the child has everything they need to succeed well in life.

The language of Islam, Arabic, was able to spread across continents. This commonality between people of different territories brought down the language barrier that was such a problem in intercultural communication. The common language served as a bridge between cultures for trade, which was extremely important to different territories of this time period. Islamic conquest allowed their culture to spread to many different regions. This, in fact was how Islamic territories acted as a bridge between sub-Saharan Africa and other civilizations in the Middle East.