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Zimbabwe's Issues Africa is the second largest continent in the world and has a thriving population of over 900 million people. In his book Guns Germs and Steel, Jared Diamond explains why he thinks that the West has more cargo than Africa. After reading the first two chapters of his book I found out that I share a lot of the same views as he does. I believe that Africa has so little material wealth compared to the West because of government, economy, disease, and geography or climate. All of these things are big issues in present day Africa and even back in the late 1800's. If we take into consideration an African country such as Zimbabwe and research all of these specific problems happening there we may get a better view on why Africa …show more content…

The funds are falling into the wrong hands and being diverted selfishly for the benefit of the government officials themselves.(“Poorer and Angrier.” 34) From the early 1990's to present day Zimbabwe's economic conditions have worsened. The economic crisis caused budget deficits and an all time high unemployment rate. The workers in the cities were left with no jobs, thus making the economy worsen. During this time of crisis the country was led by Robert Mugabe. His plans and decisions have adversely affected the economy. An example of this is he seized all the land from white owners and redistributed them to blacks that did not have land. He probably thought that this would benefit the poor people of Zimbabwe but it affects were not good. People had thought that he was being racist towards whites. The whites who came forth to provide Zimbabwe with financial aid had altered their thoughts of providing support to Zimbabwe. Also big cigarette firms who had originally invested in agriculture for growing Tobacco in Zimbabwe worried that all their lands would be seized. So they pulled out of Zimbabwe and started investing in their neighboring countries.(“Poorer and Angrier.” 34) The top government official are extremely corrupt. As the poor people are rioting about the increase of basic commodities like food the top officials in the government are enjoying driving very expensive cars and a

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