The Epidemic Of Africa And The Abduction Of The 200 Chibok

Although the !Kung San of southern Africa differ greatly from the people in the west African nation of Mali, both areas share similar problems. Both suffer from diseases, illnesses, malnutrition, and having to adapt to the ever changing and advancing cultures around them. What I found to be the most significant problem that is shared between both areas is that the people suffered from a lack of education. In the book Dancing Skeletons: Life and Death in West Africa by Katherine A. Dettwyler, there is a lack of education in proper nutritional practices, taking care of children and newborns, and basic medical knowledge and practices. The Dobe Ju/’hoansi have recently started putting in schools to help children receive an education to help

Between America and other European nations, stereotypes and misrepresentations have ultimately plagued the continent of Africa. To every side there is often another story, yet unfortunately for the many countries of Africa, they are ultimately victimized and suffer through further oppression. According to Curtis Keim’s book Mistaking Africa, Keim suggests that Africa is essentially under the public microscope, it tends to be scrutinized, and compared to European nations and America. Keim elaborates on human natures need to group people, places, and things, which creates the theory of superiority or dominance over races, cultures, and even religions.

It is unfortunate how often we hear about a disaster occurring in Africa. From civil wars in Somalia and Congo, famine in Yemen and viruses spreading through Liberia, people associate Africa as being chaotic, violent, corrupt, and incredibly poor to the point many Americans still believe animals freely roam in the cities. Naturally, many people and organizations feel the need to bring order and peace to the continent, by policing it, spreading the word of God among the natives, or provide resources such as food, water, or money. However, most people never take the time to learn of African culture and traditions, or understand that some Africans are content with what they have and how things work. We label them as being poor because they do not match our preconceptions of happiness, as we believe living comfortably with others leads to happiness.

The world as a whole should be mortified by what is happening in Sub-Saharan Africa. In places like Swaziland, Botswana, Lesotho poverty, crime and systematic corruption are the tinder for the fire that is the HIV epidemic in Africa.

“It was never good enough to throw our hands up in horror that people were dying … We had to work out why – to chase the story back to its roots, and write about its origins fearlessly, even if it turned out that the ultimate beneficiary of the people’s suffering was a politician or a proprietor who had power over your own livelihood, or even your own life. A journalist’s right to investigate was not God-given: it was earned by playing one’s part responsibly in guarding the values of human society.”

One of the top ten problems there is endless conflict, and things there always seem to result in death. There are constant acts of violence, deaths from various diseases such as Ebola, and numerous other issues. There was an attack in early 2015 that left over 2,000 people in a village named Doron Baga dead. No one seemed to care much about this. In fact, in a map that displays the most locations facing violence in Africa, it shows Nigeria as the most, at 11,529 people. Another graph shows that as the years go on, so do the number of deaths from political violence, and it isn’t even referring to Darfur. While, yes, what’s going on is a tragedy, there are also many other terrible events occurring in Africa as

The writer speaks on past experiences where class, gender, race and sexuality have possibly affected the awareness of the news media. Christie (1986: 18) describes an ‘ideal victim’ as someone who looks vulnerable, defenceless, worthy of sympathy and compassion, this would probably be upper class people, elderly women and young children, whereas young men, the homeless and those of lower class suffer from victimization more deeply, they also may find it much more problematic to attain a legitimate victim status even if their case was more severe than others (Carrabine et al, 2004). This shows that the media select stories which involve sensitive and vulnerable people because this is most likely going to intrigue the audience. The issue with

Towards the end of August 2014, a man in Madagascar was the first person in the area to get the plague. He died a few days later on September third. This caused the outbreak of the plague in Madagascar, and as of November sixteenth, there have been one-hundred-nineteen cases in the country, forty of which were reported bereft of life. Sixteen districts of the seven regions in Madagascar have reported the cases of illnesses, only two-percent of which are in the pneumonic form. The pneumonic type forms in the patient’s lungs, and if not treated for twenty-four hours, will lead to the death of the individual. The bubonic plague, the most common, develops with the swelling of a lymph node. The plague comes from rodents, and the fleas eat off of

Africa is a continent plagued by misinformed and false stereotypes, rarely being seen or portrayed as what it really is. Countless amounts of myths and ideas are formulated based off of single stories or one-sided stories from the region, often without a second thought. These stereotypes give Africa an overall negative image to the rest of the world and suppress the reality that is hidden behind the slew of stereotypes. The belief that all of Africa is poor and undeveloped is an uninformed statement that harms the reality and worsens the image of the continent by perpetuating an incomplete idea into the world.

The myth and stereotypes about Africa are not anything new and they are very present in our daily lives and the way Africa is portrayed. For example the reason why many people today think that Africa is bleak land of poverty and diseases is because early writers, historians, and geographers talked about Africa in that way. Because these stereotypes are so readily available, they infiltrate people’s daily thinking. Furthermore this makes people less likely to actually seek to really learn about Africa because they feel that their [inaccurate] suffice for their worldview of Africa. This is in turn leads people completely ignoring anything that contract their already established ideas.

Planet Earth is the one and only home for humans, and it’s their natural duty to protect it and all of its inhabitants. For many people, the fate of animals is of little importance, especially when there are so many of their own species suffering throughout the world. However, only when one has respect for nature can he or she come to appreciate for his or herself. In the past few decades, some animals have progressively come closer and closer to extinction. When compared to demographics 30 years ago, less than 5% of tiger and rhino populations remain in the wild (Congressional). The main culprits for this abominable crime against nature are avaricious poachers who seek personal gain and profit. Poaching is the illegal killing of

The documentary details how the Democratic Republic of Congo, renamed Zaire, is in extreme poverty and largely underreported due to corruption. Zaire also holds a large portion of the world’s supply of a mineral that has been used in the production of nearly every cell phone and computer on the planet, making it very valuable and causing a number of violent wars over who would gain control over the mineral. This documentary correlates to the today’s continuing trends of colonization, globalization, and imperialism in Africa and countries in the Middle East over resources and minerals. These wars are extremely harsh and often feature children wielding automatic weapons, but the crimes and death rates from violence, hunger, and illness is still very underreported. The documentary When We Were Kings is another more realistic representation of the effects of colonialism in Africa.

Everyone has an identity that is unique to them as a person. The identity of a person or group is what shapes the perspective of their national ethnicity or religion. There are powerful tools in today’s society that can shape the identity of people. The media plays a significant role in our society today. The media imparts and shapes society’s opinion on the subjects of politics, business, culture and sports. It reflects on the freedom of speech and freedom of expression within a country. Media has the ability to bring relief to disaster prone areas while at the same time it may be responsible for nurturing prejudice against certain regions. For example, the perception that Africa is an extremely underdeveloped region although it is actually active with large

Depending on where you get your news, what TV shows you watch, and by which mediums you most frequently consume the media, your individual interpretation of the same event may vary greatly with that of others. The advantages of a 21st century media are unquestionable. In an advanced society it is completely reasonable to assert that differing ideologies are necessary and in fact healthy for a learned civilization. The importance of credible institutions reporting on the behalf of the masses is a vital part of the freedoms expected to be globally upheld. Unfortunately, there are some clearly negative societal consequences of our vast media markets as well. As they do at times, veer away from credibility and steer towards agenda based and profit influenced reporting. When consuming any form of media, it is vital to be cautionary of different biases, and factors that may impact the way information is presented to you as a consumer. It is important to acknowledge that all media sources operate within the boundaries of some agenda or purpose. Media sources often times provide very different accounts of the same information. The Syrian refuge crisis has sparked an extensive amount of discussion globally. in 2016, it has been one of the most frequently covered topics of discussion. The uniquely demanding crisis, has had great impact on political rhetoric in every corner of the world. The nearly 6 million estimated individuals fleeing Syria have been the topic of much discussion.

I was 18 when we moved to the United States from Cameroon in 2010. I had always known I wanted to be in journalism, yet had little knowledge of how the media worked or what being a journalist even entailed. I had a passion for telling stories, and zero experience or hope that I would someday be able to do so in a way that affects everyday people, and effects positive change. As far as I knew, journalism was the ruling government’s tool for communicating what it deemed fit for public knowledge, and stifling any information that remotely threatened the political status quo. Only in the following years would I come to grasp the power of media and communication, in a journey that has led me to this very moment.