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    Africa Before Slavery

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    Africa before European slavery Africa is a big continent full with varies group of people with different belief and different government. The area that have a king as the leader tend to have more complex government system. Other area just govern by the knowledge of the people in the area. Africa is rich with goods and it attract European trader to trade with them. Some European seek an opportunity from trading people by kidnapping the African and sold them to the European. After a while more European

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    Africa was colonized in the 1870s, an era of colonization and European capitalism. At this time period, land was more powerful than any type of currency. (“European Colonization of Africa and Asia”). For some countries in Europe, like Britain, getting profitable regions of Africa meant land, raw materials, and a legacy of a world power. Why Africa was colonized is a big mystery. It was discovered by Portugal on a trade route to India, and the message spread. By the 1870s, the so called “Scramble

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    ” (Article 3, pp. a) Especially in Africa, human trafficking has become the modern-day adaptation of slavery and has affected people and their countries since the 15th century. Whether they were brought by false pretenses or by force, children have been abducted from their homes by armed groups and have fought in conflicts too complicated for most of them to understand (Global, 2016). Children have become the number one detected victim in Sub-Saharan Africa and have included figures such as

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    Poverty in Africa 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

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    The Scramble for Africa, also known as the Race for Africa, was the systematic process of invasion, occupation, colonization, and annexation of African territory by European powers during the New Imperialism period, between 1881 and the start of World War I in 1914. The Europeans referred Africa the ‘Dark Continent’ because it was a mystery to them. This connection got mixed up with the more sinister idea that Africa was a place where the inhabitants were savage and brutal. Europeans, after the

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    taking up (time, space) it with settlers and making use of it by money and goods. Colonialism in Africa started between the 1870s and 1900 as Africa faced imperialist's Aggression , diplomatic forces to do, military taking by force, in the end Conquest and process of making countries come under the control of another, in addition process of making countries come under the control of another in Africa can be separated into 2 stages, namely the Greek and Latin days long past and European process of

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    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

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    Scramble for Africa The scramble for Africa was the fast paced invasion and division of the African continent by European powers during what is today known as the time of “New Imperialism”. Most people would date the start of the scramble for Africa in 1881-1882 when the British invaded and occupied Egypt but the roots of this movement can be traced back even earlier than that. A key moment that can be identified when talking about the roots of European conquest and conflict in Africa is the opening

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    involved.  While many people believe Africa is a whole continent in need of foreign aid, this misapprehension could not be farther from the truth.   Before any type of outside involvement, most Africans were educated and civilized.  While it is a widespread misconception that Africa is “the heart of darkness,” in reality, it is a place full of sophisticated people living just like the rest of the world.  It is true that during the late 1800’s many countries in Africa were not as developed as many places

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    Causes Of Soil In Africa

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    There are many reasons that the soil in Africa has seen decreased nutrients quality, ranging from Africa’s seasonal effect on soil, climate change and poor farming practices are all factors that contribute to this phenomenon. Firstly, I will cover the natural reasons that Africa’s soil tends to be degraded as this is commonly debated to be the main reason for the soils degradation. Africa is unique in that it has one of the strongest seasonal rain systems (very dry when rain isn’t occurring but

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