Sierra Leone

With Mali’s economics very different from ours in America, family size and gender ideas also are very different than ours. Family size in Mali is very important; it is not considered a burden like in the United States where a couple of children is common. In Mali, it is common for women to have six to eight children by the time they are considered “old”. In the United States, the more children you have, the more you have to provide for, but in Mali, the more children you have measures a man’s status and success, and that’s for each of his wives. The more children you have not only provide those two things, but increases the income of a family because children in Mali, at a young age, may start to work to provide for their mothers and younger siblings. Unlike in a western society, the wealth flows up in a third world country. In Mali, a man is prosperous when he has a house full of children, and grandchildren who honor him, work for him and support him in his old

f. The music in South Africa reflects the country, and the history through the Mbube music. Either male vocalists, and or female vocalists sing such. When the lead singer is singing his or her part, they are said to be telling their stories. Mbube music is said to be traceable to furthest back the 1920’s. It was created in Africa when migrant workers begun holding singing competitions in a form of entertainment after long work days. This carried plenty of history about the country because of how old this form of music was. Dating back to the 1920’s, it was able to help preserve lots of memories, facts, and even stories about what has happened. This was mostly popular in the time that Africa was living in

Some cultures view men as being in charge and women are not allowed to make any family decisions.

Ishmael is a wonderful young man who becomes a victim of a devastating civil war in Sierra Leone. Like most other civilians, he is a victim of a terror campaign on the part of both sides of the war. Millions of civilians die in this conflict and in that way, Ishmael is lucky, because he lives. However, he comes out of the experience as a boy soldier badly damaged. He has lost his family to the rebel atrocities just before he has the chance to be reunited. He sees friends and comrades die the most horrible deaths before his eyes, he lives in horrible conditions day in and day out, and most of the time, he sees little hope that his existence will ever change.

The Democratic Republic of the Congo is one of the largest African countries located in central Africa. Congo is a country that has grown out of a history of Belgian colonisation. Congo also has a long history of an unstable government with a lot of problems with internal corruption. Being a land rich on natural resources with a poor government, Congo has been the perfect target for foreign exploitation of the lands resources. There is a high demand for cobalt from first world countries and the demand keeps rising every year. The current battery technology enables big technology companies to sell small handheld technological devices. Congo is one of the worlds leading supplier of cobalt. Almost half of the worlds cobalt was mined there. This cobalt can be found in any rechargeable battery such as the battery of a laptop or a smartphone. A cobalt rich battery has enabled us to have phones small enough to can fit in our pockets. These litihium-ion batteries can contain up to 10 grams of refined cobalt. Refined cobalt is the most expensive element in these batteries. Today, several Chinese companies are buying cheap cobalt from Congolese miners who working under dangerous conditions. The Congolese people are poor and desperate enough to do the hard and dangerous work. Families are forced involve their children in the mining work to be able to survive. The work pays less than minimum wage. The foreign mining business in Congo has caused Congolese people to sacrifice their

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)

Sierra Leone is located in West Africa and share a border with Liberia and Guinea. Its current population is 6.5 million with 3.2 million men and 3.3 million women. The country has 16 diverse tribal groups with diverse languages. The younger populace has 42% and a rural populace with 62% who are living outside the cities. (Countrymeters, 2016)

The Republic of Sierra Leone is a country in West Africa where the power lies with the people. They have a governmental system which is somewhat similar to that of the United States. They hold elections, have certain requirements for candidates and have two primary political parties, though a third is fighting for a chance in power. It is divided into several districts and provinces and has fairly good relations with many other countries. Sierra Leone is also existing proof that colonization can have beneficial effects on a country without nearly, or completely, eliminating a way of life.

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

I have chosen to dissect two West African countries, Sierra Leon and Ghana, along with Peru located in South America and lastly the United States located in North America. Sierra Leon is a British established colony founded in 1787 for slaves returning to Africa from Great Britain and also the United States, its primary language is Krio spoken by 97% of citizens. Sierra Leone became an independent country within the Commonwealth of Nations on April 27 of 1961 and Freetown was deemed the capital city. Sierra Leone holds a population of 6,453,184 and population density of 89.4 per square kilometer. In spite that this country is very poor it still suffers the consequences of the Civil war. Yet its mineral, farming and angling assets still ensures potential for monetary future developments. Earnest Bai Koroma is the current President of Sierra Leon. Earnest Bai Koroma is a graduate from the oldest University in West Africa, Fourth Bay College class of 1976, born October 2 1953. Sierra Leon Presidential term limit consists of a maximum of 2 five-year term limits. Earnest BK is now serving his 2nd term as of 2007. During Earnest Bai Presidency Sierra Leonean faced detrimental governmental issues, commanded by the Ebola epidemic in West Africa in 2014. As the nation experienced the most exceedingly sicknesses ever. The President was condemned for the Government slow reaction and for the outrageous measures it took, for example, "shutting down" the whole nation to check the spread

Every year sub-Saharan Africa receives around $134bn in loans, foreign investment and development aid, according to the UN. Nonetheless, sub-Saharan Africa is still the poorest region in the world. For many years the international community has debated over the reasons why every year billion and billions of dollars are not taking sub-Saharan Africans out of poverty. Three major groups have prevailed in the discussion. First, the people who totally blame Africa for not doing its job right, completely forgetting that most of the funds are not administrated by Africans. Second, the people who believe that even though aids are not working, the international community should keep investing funds in Africa even if is failing; one day they will work.

(U) There are three (3) main threats in Freetown, Sierra Leone. The first potential threat is political demonstrations. With the upcoming presidential elections in 2017, and the current president (Ernest Bai Koroma) winning by a small margin in 2012, you should expect both scheduled and spontaneous political demonstrations to occur throughout Sierra Leone.4 These demonstrations will be very prevalent in the city of Freetown. In the past they have started peaceful, but escalated to violence very quickly.2 The second potential threat is the local gangs. These gangs consist mainly of either students, or young unemployed males, or both. Theses gangs concentrate on small crimes, i.e. pickpocketing. They have been known to be violent in

Liberia is unlikely most Sub-Saharan countries, because Liberia has always been what is called a “free” or “independent” country. Liberia was created in 1822 by America for Free African-American Slaves. Liberia quickly became a republic by 1847 with the helping hand of American Politics. While Liberia was not colonized in the traditional sense. Liberia still displayed some problems that traditionally colonized countries suffered from. Liberia suffered the mirroring image problem, the two publics problem, and corruption.

There are claims that the government is actively trying to under-develop the north (Acker,p. 343). Northern Uganda was mainly populated by the Acholi people, an ethnic group that comprises of over a million people (Acker, p. 340). One of the largest impacts that the under-development of the north was on the subsistence economy. In Africa, cattle is one of the most popular forms capital. In the Gulu and Kitgum districts of northern Uganda, almost all of their cattle were taken during a time of conflict between the government and the LRA. In the Kitgum region, the cattle population fell from 156,667 to 3,239 in just 12 years, while at the same time, the national cattle population has risen from 3 to 5.6 million in the same time period (Acker, p. 344).

The Democratic Republic of the Congo has a very interesting history. The country has a population of 67.5 million people, and the capitol is Kinshasa, which has a population of 10.4 million people.