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    4. How Diasporas Engage their Home State Diasporas can influence their home states in three primary manners. First, diaspora use remittances to a) help and to influence family, religious and ethnic members and interest groups and b) to a lesser and more recent degree, influence the state in particular ways. Second, diaspora engage in home state political party mobilization in order to influence home state politics and economics. Third, a diaspora uses its host state political and economic apparatuses

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    My essay will be looking at servant leadership in the continent of Africa and how effective it has been. In the past few decades after countries in Africa seized being under colonial rule, there has been a misconstrued notion that “All leaders in Africa are corrupt” and that it struggles heavily with ethical leadership. It cannot be denied that certain leaders in African countries have made questionable decisions but the same can be said for many other leaders in different continents. My thesis aims

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    Burkina Faso is located in Western Africa, north of Ghana. Burkina Faso has a rapid population growth as a result in this the highway would be useful when we finish building it and a few years in the future. Since Burkina Faso is a poor country they rely on their exports which are Cotton and gold and by building a highway they could get their shipments to the destinations faster. The recent GDP which is $1,800 would impact the highway because they wouldn’t be able to afford it. Burkina Faso

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    are some of the arts and crafts for which the West African country of Burkina Faso is famous. 134 Art and culture in Burkina Faso Burkina Faso is a landlocked West African country with a population of over 16 million people. There are over 60 different ethnic groups and each is known for their individually-styled folk music. The country has the largest art and craft market in Africa, and the Burkinabe (the people from Burkina Faso) are skilled in mask-making and wood carving, with different tribes

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    made slight changes to the writing to make it easier for the readers to understand, the took is filled with tales from Hawa’s life, beginning from her childhood living in the village of Kumasi to her life as a prostitute living in Accra, Togo, and Burkina Faso. The book touches on several aspects of a post-colonial West African life. Urban poverty, patriarchy, lawlessness, European expatriates and the differences between traditional and urban mindsets in West Africa. Hawa is a very strong storyteller

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    Behind the Beauty of Victoria’s Secret Rough Draft Term Paper Introduction: I remember the first time I ever stepped foot into a Victoria’s Secret, I was fifteen years old. I was mesmerized by the bright pink and white walls. The signature PINK dogs scattered all over the PINK side of the store. The cosmetics section was sparkling in the distance and the signatures fragrance filled the air. I remember the feeling of finally being grown up, here I was shopping for fragrances and bras in the same

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    educational opportunities, they are being denied the basic human right of literacy. Nine out of the top ten illiterate countries in the world are in Africa. Burkina Faso, in West Sub-Sahara, is the single most illiterate country in the world. Unfortunately, little to no changes in literacy rates have occurred for the past several decades in Burkina Faso, or in the many African countries with high illiteracy rates. Without the ability to read and write, people become trapped in a cycle of poverty, inequality

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    from the ocean by a narrow strip of land. The network of protected areas in Togo covers about twenty eight percent of the national territory. Togo is a country of the West Africa. First Togo, officially the Togolese Republic is bordered by Benin, Burkina Faso and Ghana, and by the Gulf of Guinea and Atlantic Ocean. Southern Togo's landmass begins with extensive lagoons and mangrove-covered marshes that sweep Northward into savanna (flat grassland) and a wooded plateau. First, animals in Togo have

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    The Economic Development of Ghana Ghana is an African country located on the western side of Africa. Its neighbors are Burkina Faso to the north, Togo to the east, the Atlantic Ocean to the south, and Cote D'Ivoire to the west. It has a population of 18,100, 703 and a population density of 197 people per square mile. Ghana is 92,098 square miles and English is its official language. The capital city of Accra has around 1, 673,000 people residing in it. There are the physical statistics, now onto

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    2.3. Positive Effects In economic aspect, tourism can boost the economy of the developing countries by receiving tourist spending, the money received can further drive the income of different industries and sectors inside the economy, which can be explained by the Tourism Multiplier Effect (Leuterio, 2007). In fact, not only can tourism create employment in the tertiary sector, but also stimulate growth of the primary and secondary industries. To be precise, tourism in an area encourage the employment

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