Dakar Region

Development in Dakar constructed a program in order to estimate the nationwide burden of malaria in all regions. They led the Senegalese survey effort to collect rapid diagnostic tests (RDTs) and Blood smears of a representative random sample of 320 clusters and 9600 households throughout Senegal (Giardina et al., 2012). Geographically, those from the Southeastern region possess the greatest risk of contracting the malarial parasites (Figure 1). This is significant because this region is extremely

Throughout the post-independence era of Africa, gender roles and gender relations are changing. In a few countries in Africa, during the post-independence period, there are women that want to break the traditions of male generated fields in the work and politics. The film Faat Kinè by Ousmane Sembène, follows African woman Faat Kinè through her day to day struggles for success in work and family during the post-independence era of Africa. Wangari Maathai’s book Unbowed: A Memoir describes her childhood

The world has advanced over the centuries. To ensure progression and growth, society must embrace organizations which support improving the quality of human life. The United Nations is one such organization that has ensured the well-being of the human race by collaborating internationally on how to tactically approach conflicts. From combating terrorism to eradicating smallpox, the United Nations has resolved numerous foreign issues and international crises. The creation of the United Nations continues

which is why I have decided to major in Global Studies. To broaden my global perspective, I am currently participating on St. Lawrence University's Global Francophone Cultures program where I am studying abroad in Quebec, Canada; Rouen, France, and Dakar, Senegal. In addition to learning the French language, the main area of focus for this year's program is immigration. One of the courses I am taking is called, “The Age of Migration: Labor Mobility in the EU.” In this course we have read various articles

additionally in what is modern day Mali. Ousmane depicts the lives of railroad workers and their families mainly through the activity in three cities: Bamako, Dakar, and Thies. Bamako is the capital of modern day Mali, Dakar is the largest city in Senegal and also it’s capital, and Thies is a large city in Senegal known primarily as a wooded region. Similar to the rest of Africa, the colonial system in Senegal was built on a system of oppression and racism. The most blatant example of this system

France in the 1960’s they have had peaceful transfers of power, and the artists in Senegal feel as if President Wade would threaten that from continuing. They want to ensure that the Democracy in Senegal continues to be one of the more prominent in the region through their marches and protest songs. Utimately, they wanted to ensure that Wade would not win a third term in 2012 after he announced his plan to change Senegal’s election

water purification in poor countries forever. “Water is essential to life; however, people do not have access to clean and safe drinking water and several die of waterborne bacterial infections” (Cabral). Africa is home to many of these people. This region is in desperate need of a transition, not only in access to fresh water, but also for better sanitation. Toilets are often found over pits, next septic trucks are hired to pump out the sewage, and finally carried away. The dumping sites for the sewage

Jola Initiation Ritual The phenomenon of folkloric festivals and cultural identity in the contemporary Senegal region of the Casamance provides a unique opportunity to experience and describe customs that have dictated creative and functional experiences for over a thousand years in the western mid enclave of African continent. In seeking to understand this subject we are made aware of the changing textures of time and space and the beauty of physical universe existence, as well as the challenge

and enacted. At the World Education Forum that took place in Dakar, Senegal in 2000, The Dakar Framework for Action, Education for All: Meeting our Collective Commitments was adopted. The framework gave specific instructions for each state’s government to have a plan developed by 2002 to enact Education for All (EFA) with the goal of achieving EFA targets by 2015. The EFA frameworks were designed and adapted for 6 different regions in the world including Sub-Saharan Africa (http://unesdoc.unesco

Bell, M. K. (2013). Raising Africa?: celebrity and the rhetoric of the white savior. Journal of Multidisciplinary International Studies, vol. 10, no 1, January 2013. ISS: 1449-2490; http://epress.lib.uts.edu.au/ojs/index.php/portal This article analyzes the presence of and programmatic approaches to fundraising and campaigning undertaken by white celebrities in the African continent. The author argues that the “discursive space of whiteness in Africa must surely be examined as an impediment to