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Assess the significance of the role of individuals in bringing about the expansion and dismantling of the British Empire in Africa in the period c1870-c1981. The two factors that led to the formal occupation of North Africa in 1882 was economic and political factors. Britain wanted to protect their economic interests such as their investment in The Suez Canal. In 1875 Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli bought a 44% share in the Suez Canal- this was ultimately beneficial for Britain as this was a cheaper

Between the 1870’s and the 1900’s as African societies put up various forms of resistance against the attempt to colonize their countries and impose foreign domination, European imperialist aggression, diplomatic pressures, military invasions, and eventual conquest and colonization. By the early twentieth century, except for Ethiopia and Liberia, most of Africa, had been colonized by European powers. In the nineteenth century, following its abolition and suppression, the collapse of the profitable

ABSTRACT This study attempted to estimate the environmental impact of Foreign Direct Investment in the mining sector in Nigeria. It is argued that only those countries that have reached a certain income level can absorb new technologies and benefit from technology diffusion, and thus reap the extra advantages that FDI can offer. The mining industry in Nigeria is dominated by oil. Indeed, Nigeria is the largest producer of this commodity in Africa and sixth largest producers in the world. This research

infrastructures. Students and pupils also have less equipment (stationaries, uniforms, laboratory for practical) at their perusal. The classrooms are poorly structured (leaking roof, mud buildings, no doors or windows) and always not sufficient. Lessons are at times received under trees. Because some communities don’t have schools, so they all crowd the available ones. The distance covered to go to school, sometimes discourage the students. The female children also would be denied education, because

THE WHITE HOUSE NATIONAL SECURITY COUNCIL SECRET TO: POTUS FROM: APSNA DATE: 10/25/2014 RE: WATER CRISIS UPDATE Summary Mr. President, The world’s supply of water is in steep decline as more and more is being used each year by more and more people around the globe. Currently, 800 million people do not have access to a drinking source. At the current rate, 1.8 billion people could be living in areas of absolute water scarcity by 2025. It is time to fully address the issue of the impending world water

(b) Chronic OE – this is same as acute diffuse OE but is of longer duration lasting more than 6 weeks. Chronic OE is a fairly common condition that is sometimes the result of incomplete treatment of acute OE. More often however, chronic OE is caused by over manipulation of the ear canal as a consequence of cleaning and scratching. Such over manipulation results in a low grade inflammatory response that causes further itching of the skin. Eventually, the skin thickens, and canal stenosis may occur

Europeans over Africans by mentioning about the District Commissioner, who plans to write a book after discovering death of Okonkwo, “He had already chosen the title of the book, after much thought : The Pacification of the Primitive Tribes of the Lower Niger” (Achebe 209). The commissioner, who still thinks the Igbo “primitive” even after his quite long experiences in Umuofia, shows how little Europeans actually tried to understand all the complex aspects of the Igbo, but only focused on colonialism and

The forests of the Rumpi Hills also contain what is commonly referred to as the Rumpi Hills Forest Reserve or previously known as the Rumpi Hills Native Administration Forest Reserve created by Forestry Ordinance No 38 of 1937 and approved by Forestry Ordinance No 16756/79 of 2nd July, 1941 (SWPA, 2016). The North Boundary is the road from Lipenja Mukete through Ikoi and Dikome Ngolo to Madie; the South Boundary goes through Nalende, Monyange, Itoki and Ilor to Moko. Whereas the East Boundary, goes

Starbucks by now has an continuing connection to Sweden: CEO Howard Schultz beforehand worked alongside Hammarplast, “a Swedish housewares firm that marketed coffee makers” (Subhadra and Dutta, 2003). It was as working for this firm that Schultz early came to be cognizant of Starbucks, who was a main client of Hammarplast at the time. A connection like this might be functional for marketing and branding intentions if Starbucks selected to go in the Swedish market. Sweden is additionally quite an

Samori Touré ( 1830 – 1900 ) African military leader. A Muslim, he began to amass a personal following in the mid-1850s, establishing a military base on the Upper Niger. By 1870 his authority was acknowledged throughout the Kanaka region of the River Milo, in what is now eastern Guinea. By 1880 he ruled a vast Dyula empire, from the Upper Volta in the east to the Fouta Djallon in the west, over which he attempted to create a single Islamic administrative system. His imperial ambitions clashed