Physical Environment In Africa

In the 1990’s cereals and grain were popular in Africa, with over 60 percent of the land used for these crops (ita 2004). From the 1930’s to the 1990’s Africa saw a reduction of 13 percent in agriculture’s share (ita 2004). During the 1970’s and 1980’s, there was a period of drought that affected both the crops and native plant in the area (Boffa Dixon Garrity 2012), which may have contributed to the decline of agriculture’s share. Also, in 1992 the production of corn fell from 10 million to 3 million tons, due to the drought (ita 2004).

Every culture in the world has their own customs and ways they do things. All cultures have different ways of initiating people into their cultural groups. The people that are joined into a particular culture group have family that are in the group already. Although, there are cases where outsiders join into other cultural groups. A way that this occurs is by marriage. Every culture has their own ways of going about a wedding ceremony. This paper will focus on the marriage ceremony of the Maasai community of East Africa and then the Jewish community, a religious group scattered around the world with many located in America.

The physical-environmental geography of Sub-Saharan Africa relates to the distribution of human and economic activities in several ways. First, Sub-Saharan Africa is a peripheral that supplies raw materials, food, and cheap labor to the main industrial countries. The physical geography makes survival had for those not working in agriculture. It is the most productive way for people to make a living and feed their large families. In recent years, there has been major movement from rural-to-urban environments. Migration to major cities has caused extreme overcrowding and poor living conditions.

The earth has been through a lot of changes throughout time. It used to be thought that the continents were locked in their positions and couldn’t move, but in 1915 Alfred Wagner came up with a theory about continental drift (Tarbuck and Lutgens, 2015). While unsure of the process that happened at the time, Wagner also came up with the idea that all the continents in existence today were once all connected as one giant continent known as Pangea. This idea is supported by the findings of similar rocks or fossils in multiple locations separated by large water bodies. Thanks to more tools and funding, the oceanic ridge system was found and by 1968, the theory of plate tectonics was introduced (Tarbuck and Lutgens, 2015). This theory

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.

During the Miocene era, ‘Stanford’s hypothesis’ portrays the thought that there was a significant change of the environment in East Africa and its ecological state. It is understood that the dense forested areas began to disperse, and though gradual, the hominins living at the time would have had to alter their lifestyles to suit such a shift in their ecosystem. This change occurred “as rainfall declined and the degree of seasonality rose” (Stanford, 2003, p. 120). The foregoing vegetation which could not cope with the drier climatic conditions then began to diminish. This, in turn, prompted the spreading of different plant life, and

Sub-Saharan Africa, being a tropical region, ranks as one of the hottest regions on earth. This area receives more solar insulation than several other tropical regions. Thanks to technological advancements, hot temperatures do not cause a serious problem in the developed world. In these developed areas, heat only causes problems when power supply has been knocked out by storms or other hard-to-avoid occurrences. However, in sub-Saharan Africa, millions of people do not have access to electricity from grid connections. This means that these persons live in one of the earth’s hottest regions, yet have restricted access to the technologies that would have made life bearable.

Africa is the world's second largest continent in both area and population, only Aisa supersede Africa in this area. Approximately 11,670,000 square miles Africa make up roughly a fifth of the world's land area, Also with a population of 959 million people, with calculates to be a seventh of the world population(1).

The concept of DEPTH is a call for more diversification, more export competitiveness, more productivity increases, more technological upgrading, and more improvements in human well-being in order to beckon in the economic transformation of Africa. Now is the time to expand upon the already growing African market, as is evident by the fact that 6 of 10 of the fastest growing countries in the world are located it Sub-Saharan Africa . However, there has been little to no development in the structure of the Sub-Saharan economy in the past four decades. Africa still hemorrhages natural resources, with little infrastructure to expand into the manufacturing of final goods. Economies remain reliant on agro and extractive sectors, leaving the population

How has the physical environment of the Sahel influenced ways of life in this subregion?

All the themes are (to a varying extent) inter-related and synergistic (as summarised in Figure 1, below). All themes will address cross-cutting issues (indicated by the bars across the bottom of the diagram) such as: innovation and the translation of research; the provision of skills; infrastructure for research; international collaboration and cooperation; and user engagement and communication –

I agree with you James that the complete replacement model or Out of Africa model suggests that modern humans were firstly originated in Africa from a single group of Homo sapiens approximately around 200,000 years ago, which they continuously evolve then migrated out from Africa, then spread out into the broader world throughout Eurasia, which replaced other archaic humans, such as Neandertals in Europe. Researchers like Stringer and Andrew supported this due to the evidence they have shows that the identified oldest fossils of Homo sapiens originated from Africa, and also, a variety of various DNA studies on modern human populations all suggest that common lineage from a small gene pool was derived in

The scramble for Africa during the late 1870’s had caused many European nations to invest and get there hands on piece of Africa and also did this with minimal conflicts among each other. As a result, much of Africa was colonized and countries such as Britain and France had much territory and influence in Africa. Therefore, colonization led to lots of exploitations and for African countries to lose there right to govern their own country. However, the rise of independence began near the late 1950’s and the 1960’s and can be exemplified through the ending of World War II, educated African elites and nationalism. These three main factors can be displayed through events and forces that happened within the continent as well as outside of it.

Another line of evidence that supports the drifting of continents is geological similarities between western Africa and eastern South America. Mountain ranges in Buenos Aires, Argentina and mountain ranges in western Africa are similar. There are also mountain ranges that extend

From there the people, land, and globally worldwide view of what can be done to stop the negative results of the drought:With so little resources East Africa uses what they have chicken blood is used as a treatment to a malnourished person (Stewart, 2011). Immunizations