Sub-Saharan Geography

    Physical geography plays a significant part in the development and success of different people and countries. A country's location can greatly affect how that country does economically. For example, country’s near water typically do better economically than landlocked because water unlocks more trade opportunities. However, some landlocked countries can still do well because of it’s neighboring countries that may be located near water. Another example is the type of environment you’re located in. People in countries with a more agricultural based environment will live very differently than a country surrounded by desert that may focus on oil or minerals. Yet, some countries, like the U.S, are so big that they have many different climates, ecosystems, and environments; allowing for many different types of ways to make money, trade, and live.

In Somalia, no one is spared from crisis. Children and health workers have been murdered and kidnapped. People fight over food and water, adding another burden to citizens of Somalia who are already struggling to get through resource droughts. In a country with no central government, little happens without trauma-force. As resources continue to diminish, conflict arises when there are very little resources and Somalis all want to have priority (Unicef, 2006). Before environmental resource scarcity in Somalia is discussed in depth, let’s take a closer look at the physical and human geography in the country, global climate change and its impact on Somalia’s vegetation, the evolution of Somalia during the colonial and imperial periods, and many Somali conflicts that cause to be in crisis (in no particular order), even today.

This was an interesting post that included several different elements about the effect geography had on the development of Africa. The key point about Africa is realizing how diverse it is in many different aspects. The continent has a wide variety of cultures, environments, and wildlife as you have mentioned. With these different environments, each culture had various elements that influenced how they were developed (Duiker and Spielvogel). As you mentioned, the cultures in North Africa were blocked off by the massive Sahara Desert. The cultures in that region had to adapt to find resources and make connections with other cultures across the continent. One of the most important resources that civilizations need is water. Before the

During the post-classical period, there was islam everywhere. You could see it in architecture, in laws and codes, and in the people themselves; but as islam diffused throughout eurasia, several places received it differently. The different impacts that islam had on these individual is shown in the prime examples of south asia and Sub-Saharan Africa. In both of these countries, Islam allowed trade to flourish and facilitated the spread of knowledge, but as the religion spread to different regions, who converted and how it affected political empire varied greatly, dependant on the region and culture involved.

Sudan is an interesting country in Africa. My dad is from there and I wanted to learn more about it. I chose to research about their politics, like their political parties, geography, like the different landmarks, and the wildlife there, like plants and animals.

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A major challenge and cause of serious medical issues in Sub-Saharan Africa is the lack of access to a clean water supply. There are 345 million people that lack access to water in Africa. Unfortunately, when water is available it is high in contamination. When wells are built and water sanitation facilities are developed, they cannot be maintained properly to due to limited financial resources. Water quality testing is not performed as often as necessary and the people are unaware that the water may not be safe to drink. Oftentimes, when a source of water has been provided, the quantity of water is often given more attention over the quality of. Lack of clean drinking is the leading cause of diarrheal diseases in Sub-Saharan Africa and causes 7.7% of deaths in Africa. Diarrhea is caused by numerous bacterial, viral and parasitic organisms most of which can be spread by contaminated water. The importance of diarrheal diseases has mostly been overlooked. Through UNICEF and the World Health Organization (WHO) there have been some accomplishments during the

When I think of Sub-Saharan Africa I see the complete opposite of The United States. I think of poverty, no Internet & cell phones( no texting, social media), no malls/shopping centers. I think of villages and people having farms and growing crops. Africa is approximately 15 of earths land & even with one of the largest countries in the world, it is one of the lest developed countries. However, even though Africans economy is not where it is suppose to be, West Africa is becoming more developed & offers more economic opportunities than other parts of Africa. Many tribes are moving towards West Africa to start a better life for themselves & and their families. However Africa needs more infrastructure which includes; high speed highways, railroads

Place: this area is dominated by lowlands basins, highland plateaus, and tropical savanna zones, which means wet summers and dry winters. One of the most distinctive places is the South Africa. The East African Rift Valley System is splitting apart, causing an extensive series of valleys, fingerlike freshwater lakes and volcanoes.

Angola is a large country, not quite than twice the size of Texas, located in Southwestern Africa. The country is bordered by the South Atlantic Coast, with four major ports, as well as by several other African countries including but not limited to Namibia and The Democratic Republic of the Congo. Angola has many different types of terrains and landscapes, full of rivers and mountains, as well as climates, from damp and tropical to dry and desert-like. The country is full of rich natural resources and is promising for a variety of types of agriculture therefore making it a hot commodity during the “Scramble for Africa” after The Berlin Conference.

Sub Saharan Africa ,over 800 million people and 40 countries is a very large land mass surrounded by flat, elevated landforms, basins, the Sahel, Savannas, Rift Valleys, Deserts, Plateaus, Rain Forests. The highest area of Sub- Saharah is the Great Rift Valley which forms deep valleys, volcanos and lakes. The Great Rift Valley is most prominent physical feature in East Africa. The landscape of Sub Sahara Africa is mostly red soil, food crops and bright blue skies, animal herds, rivers that run thru the rain forest and deserts. Plateaus and basins make up for much of Africas physical geography. Sub saharan Africa is considered an elevated land mass, but it does not have high mountain ranges or deep valleys. The four major rivers of Sub-Saharan

It is evident that the climate of the world is changing and has been since the creation of the earth but over that past decade the change had begun to occur more rapidly. With this occurrence of climate change is the occurrence of violent conflict among humans. In most parts of the world the climate change impacts social ecological systems such as temperature, sea level, and annual precipitation. Other occurrence have just increased in intensity and frequency such as floods, droughts, storms, cyclones, fires, heat-waves, epidemics and hurricanes. Yet these environmental changes do not undermine human security but they do assist in the use up of the natural resources that humans need to maintain the “normal” daily life and most importantly survive.

The aim of this report is to discover the inequalities in Africa. This will be done by analysing the 3 main topics economic, environmental and social aspects of wellbeing in Africa. Located on the southern end of the African continent, north of Zimbabwe and Mozambique and surrounded by Atlantic ocean and Indian ocean is a continent that Covers 1 221 040 square kilometres. South Africa only takes over 4%of the lands area but is 3 times the size of Texas and 5 times bigger than Great Britain. The estimated population of South Africa in 2013 was 52.982 it shows a big growing raise throughout each year. This country holds a variety of different races and religions like white, dark, Christian and some other major religions.

Many studies have demonstrated the idea that institutions are the main factor of economic development because empirical evidence points to strong institutions being able to determine large growth of GDP per capita. Although the characteristics of strong institutions can be described as the potential fundamental cause of economic growth, the effects of geography and materials available to different certain regions have a huge hand in properly developing a society economically and allowing for further growth. The resources of the countries heavily depend on the raw materials available to each region and the kinds of animals they are able to domesticate. This is where the argument circulates around in which geography is a large determinant of whether a civilization or society can prosper in a certain area or not.

Extreme poverty, poverty is one of the biggest dilemma facing the issue of sustainable development in Africa. Poverty in Africa is linked to the environment in complex ways, particularly in natural resource-based African economies. About two-thirds of the populations in African countries live in rural areas, deriving their main source of income from agriculture. African economies are historically indigenous economies. Trees are cut for fuel wood,