Africa. I am pretty interested in this continent. I do think that Africa is such a rich continent but unfortunately, its people are the poorest in the world. This presentation gave us an idea of what really happens in this continent about the wealth distribution.
1. What did I learn?First of all it is important to give and idea about Africa´s geography. Africa is the second-largest continent in land area, after Asia. Moreover, representatives landscapes such as: the largest desert in the world, called Sahara, the longest river in the world, which is the Nile river, the highest mountain and the world’s highest free standing mountain rise which is Kilimanjaro, and in this continent are located forty six countries and there will be fifty three including all the island groups. Besides, it is important to not forget that, Africa is the most polyglot continent in the world. In which there are four major language families native to Africa: The Afro-Asiatic, The Nilo-Saharan, The Niger-Congo and The Khoisan.
About the African colonization, the expeditions began in 1800, it was mainly characterized by diseases and hostile natives but at the same time, development of guns and medicine started to appeared. In great part, the reasons why this territory was colonized were searching for new raw materials and ego issues of the potencies of that time. So with those expeditions, the european influence started to spread off around the world. Unfortunatelly, situations as: starvation, mutilation, beatings, murders, and other brutalities and and specially slavery began to take space for africans.
Two potential countries has such a important presence in Africa: The British and french. THus, there were two types of governments a direct rule from france and an indirect from the british. For instance, Great Britain ruled South Africa and Egypt, from that, the english influence in that zone. And, Tunisia with France, leaving as well the french influence overthere.
On the other hand, there was as well a decolonization process. From that, independents movements, high class leaders, a socialist model and leaders for a lot of time emerged. Unfortunatelly, consequences such as negatives effects in the Economy, so the life quality was affected as well, poor democracies, emerge of rebel groups, the traffic of resources, especially diamonds got stronger. That is why it is easier to see this country as one of the poorest and corrupt in the world.
Economically talking, The african population is mostly rural, it has got rich sources of rare and precious minerals as diamonds, also it has extensive oil and gas deposits and last, but not least important, the huge potential for hydroelectric power production, which has not been well developed yet.
About doing business in Africa, aspects such as: handshake, names, titles are consideres as important and it is good to keep in mind the business attire which is conservative. Besides, business meetings can be held over lunch or dinner in a good restaurant; gift giving is not the norm in business and it is important to be careful in talking about social taboos.
Also, it is important to be aware of the main problems in this continent; which are tropical diseases, the slave trade which comes form ages ago, but nowadays it is not so remarkable but still exits, the corruption from the governments, human rights violations, the negative effects of colonialism, analphabetism and tribal and military conflict.
But..the question remained: WHY IS AFRICA STILL SO POOR?
The main reason is corruption, the wealth is not well distributed by the government and the presence of western people exploiting minearal and other resources headed to traffic.
It is worth talking about the International help, which is headed to promote democracies, dustainable development, trade and environmental care and help is arrived to: natural disasters, drought, famine and know how.
2. Question: AIDS as the main disease that affects the African continent, why does it persist on that territory?
3. Answer: The AIDS disease, attacks stronger in zones where the misery is deep and generalized, where there is not medical attention, where there are lots of people who are starving, and who are victims of desnutrition. AIDS attacks more where men leave their homes in the countryside in order to look for jobs in the cities; zones where young women do not want to have sexual relations with protection. All these conditions are given in Africa. In some countries, especially Uganda and Senegal, it has been possible to struggle against AIDS with certain progress, but there is still a lot of to do .
That is why, it is so important to attract the attention from the international community about this issue, little by little the african governments and worldwide started to be aware of the magnitude of this tragedy. But, unfortunatelly there must die millions of people before this issue had been overcome!
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