West Africa

Introduction In the late 1970s, the international community was alarmed by the discovery of the Ebola virus. (Schwarz and Siegl, 1996) It was the ‘causative agent’ (Peters and Peters, 2015) of EHF (Ebola hemorrhagic fever). Ebola stems from a virus family know as Filoviridae. The virus targets various parts of the body causing a critical sickness of fever, diarrhoea, vomiting and in severe cases bleeding. However, infections do not always lead to death. ‘In previous outbreaks, 40-90% of known infections

around you dying of the same illness and wondering when it will be your turn to proverbially “kick the bucket”. For many survivors of the Ebola disease, this situation would be far too familiar. In March 2014, the Ebola virus outbreak began in West Africa, mainly in Sierra Leone, Liberia, and Guinea. According to a recent figure from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), there have been a total of 28616 Ebola cases and 11310 deaths from Ebola in these three countries (2014). There

half-sisters’ families during these times. I will introduce you two characters from the book, Esi and Quey. Both characters are presented in different eras, but their stories show transformations in West Africa because of violence, social and economic turmoil. Violence was a cause of transformation in West Africa. In Homegoing, readers are introduced to a character named Esi. Esi is a fifteen-year-old girl from the Asanteland. She was the daughter of Big Man, who was well respected and a great warrior

Ebola is a problem in our society today. It is a disease brought by unclean individuals. At the beginning of the article, the map demonstrates through shading, that the disease stems from Nigeria, Senegal, Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Guinea. West Africa has a current Ebola outbreak in 2014. Obviously America does not want this disease present in America. The CDC (Center of Disease Control) is helping sort out this situation. The main goal of the CDC, as the text implies, is to help countries all over

first empire in West Africa was the empire of Ghana. West Africa has an economic base in gold, 600 years ago. That means that West Africa had a deposit of gold that had brought great wealth to the surrounding people from which great empires emerged. The gold was trade and the trader with camels carried the gold across the Sahara from West Africa to North Africa. From there traders shipped the gold to Europe and to the West Asia. One of the three most powerful empires in West Africa is Ghana. In the

HOMEWORK #4 CHAPTER 10; AFRICA 1. How do the principal musical manifestations found in the sub-Saharan Africa reflect the collective community and encourage group participations? a. Most of the collective music manifestations found in sub-Saharan Africa represent the community, and encourage group participation using a method that is called call-and-response. If they aren’t using a call-and-response such music’s are usually to be found at events such as religious ceremonies, and/or

Between 1000 C.E. to 1750 C.E in West Africa the spread of Islam influenced several cultural, economic, and political changes and continuities. Culturally, West Africa managed to maintain their traditional ideals while also allowing for Islamic integration. The spread of Islam also helped to transform many West African cities into places to practice religion and academic studies. Economically, the spread of Islam increased world trade opportunity for West Africa, as well as allowing for trading across

cacao beans that grow in tropical places like West Africa. The countries in West Africa supply more than 70 percent of the world’s cocoa. They sell the cocoa they grow and harvest to many of the chocolate companies who make our chocolate candy bars. In recent years, news reporters, as well as human rights organizations around the world, have discovered that there is widespread child slavery for growing and harvesting cocoa beans on cocoa farms in West Africa. As chocolate has gotten more popular around

1807. This caused great problems for West African slave traders who had witnessed a period of vast growth in the industry towards the end of the eighteenth century. They now had to focus on more lawful, legitimate means of trading. The types of industry that often replaced the slave trade were produce based, agricultural goods such as palm oil. The potential problems faced by traders were ‘exacerbated by the fact that it coincided with other problems for West Africa’s external trade.’ This refers

indirect rule to keep their colonies. France established a Governor-General in French West Africa. He was based in Senegal, which borders Mali to the East. The Governor-General in Dakar, which is the capital of Senegal, was to take orders and to report to the Minister of Colonies and the French Government. A very small amount of Africans participated in French national affairs. All Africans living in French West Africa were called subjects of France, and not citizens. The French thought that the native