Religion In Sub-Saharan Africa

During the age of cross-cultural interactions, regions went through similar changes and continuities. These regions allowed consistent causes and effects to emerge and change their societies. These changes and continuities are evident in the regional societies located within Sub-Saharan Africa and the Americas. In Sub-Saharan Africa and the Americas from 600 to 1450 CE, opportunities for women changed, however religion and labor continued to influence society.

The first and most widespread religion I am going to talk about is Christianity. Christianity was introduced into Northern Africa in the first century. It later spread to the regions of Ethiopia and Sudan around the fourth century. Christianity was able to survive in Ethiopia because of the Coptic Church but in

During a tumultuous time in America’s history, Africans were being brought to the United States of America to be used as slaves to the white man, however, despite the bleak conditions, Africans brought with them language, music, foods, and more, that can be blanketed into African religious practices. In attempting to create new lives with one another, as well as immigrants from Europe and the pre-existing Native Americans, the sumptuous African diaspora culture planted roots in the United States of America, all of which was shaped by the Africans and their innovations, as well as their descendants. In this paper, I will be using excerpts from both “The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano” and “Black

The people living in Sahel, Sahara, and African rainforest have exceedingly different rituals when it comes to Jobs, Trade, Travel, and Daily lives. In all probability this is due to the diverse climates. Africa is the birthplace of modern humans and is home to 52 countries, 1,000 different languages, and 1 billion people. The continent can be broken into many different regions including the Sahara, Sahel, and rainforests. Even though there are very manifold climates in Africa, they often have more similarities than one would expect. Throughout trading, jobs travel and even their daily lives these three geographical locations are still a huge part of Africa’s general culture.

Location: Sub-Saharan Africa can be characterized by this two major geographic qualities. The first is its Absolute Location which is centered at approximately 5º N latitude 25º E longitude. Its Relative Location is east of the Pacific Ocean, west of the Indian Ocean, , west of the Indian Ocean, and south of the Sahara Desert.

Sub Saharan Africa has been suffering from economic blackouts for the past decades due to many reasons which stretch themselves to poor political and economic management of the black continent. As such, this crisis seem to diminish bit by bit and Africa's economy seem to grow and develop rapidly in the nearest future; from where comes the term Africa rising.

The region is made up of 48 countries with a population of 973.4 million as correct of 2014 (The World Bank). Furthermore, over 60% of that demographic is under 30, showing promise for an increasing working age population. Africa can use this vast labour potential to increase GDP and therefore increase the wealth of the continent.

Sub-Saharan economy has improved overall, but the region is still struggling with their economic performance. Prolonged colonization has left the region with weak institutions. Personal rule policy that is based on personal relationships and favors, has also contributed for the prevalence of weak institutions. The rules are applied selectively and depends on the connections one has. The wealth of the state belongs also to the head of the state and those closest to him (Moss 2011, p. 40). Furthermore, the enclave economy does not depend on development or production since it is based on resource exports and accumulation of wealth for the elites. Leonard and Straus argue that enclave economies discourage evolution of the institutions due to lack of incentives, and are the basis for personal rule (Leonard and Straus 2003, p. 13, 17).

Africa, home of the Nile River and the largest mammal (the African elephant), is the second largest and second most populated continent in the world, contributing to about 16% of the world’s total population. Africa houses over 3,000 ethnic groups (tribes), with over 1,000 languages spoken daily. The main languages are French, Portuguese, Swahili, and Arabic. Africa is broken up into four different types when discussing food cultures. These are South Africa, Central Africa, Eastern Africa, and Western Africa.

The stories of Dona Beatriz, Uthman dan Fodio, and Guimba the Tyrant present three cases in which religion and politics overlapped in different ways and to varying degrees. These three individuals lived in distinct historical contexts and had unique religious trainings, sources of spiritual power, track records as religious and political authorities, goals for reshaping the religious and political landscape of their regions, reputations among their contemporaries, and obstacles with which to contend.

Africa is the most fascinating continent on our planet due to the thousands of cultures that are able to thrive there. Africa is the most lingual diverse continent in the world with over three-thousand languages spoken there. The most common languages spoken in Africa are English, French, and Portuguese, however most African countries are composed of tribes, each with their own dialect of language. The issue lies in the fact that most of these languages are not mutually intelligible. Therefore, having thousands of languages has contributed to the downfall and stunted economic growth of many African countries such as Nigeria and Tanzania. Having hundreds of languages in a country composed of tribes can cause multiple issues and can

Africa is the only continent that is economically getting worse over the last three decades (Houston). Even though Africa is a land full of natural resources, there are too many conflicts and other causes that the people cannot utilize these resources to improve their economy. The most poorest parts of Africa is located at Sub-Saharan area, where most people live in extreme-poverty and they have trouble feeding themselves. It is important to understand the causes of poverty in those areas in order to set up aids to help those people because the aids can be easily shipped into the poor areas after identifying and analyzing the causes and problems. The causes and possibly recovery ways will be the main aspect of this paper.

Africa, the world’s most-largest and second-most-populous continent, is also home to some of the world’s poorest countries. Many of these developing countries lack a stable economy which translates into the individual lives of their citizens. Since many of these countries have an unstable economy with a combination of a corrupt government and corrupt government officials (for example; money laundering amongst oil companies in Angola), they are unable to obtain access to the proper education, there is an absence of a functioning government, they have little to no access to clean and safe water, and the proper medical treatment and treatment facilities are very

Poverty in Africa has strike the people living there extremely horrible. Africa is the second largest continent in the world. It holds about 1.1 million people, which is 15% of the world’s population. Poverty is about have not enough money to meet basic needs of living which includes food, clothing, and shelter. Being that Africa has a lack of the materials for a humans needs to have a role in society. Although over about 500 billion dollars is sent directly aid the African nation the money is being misused. A large percentage of the money that is sent is used to invest in weapons. This is caused by totalitarian regimes.

When examining the current financial situation of the African Union, one may question if whether or not the AU can really exist for much longer.