Most countries today consist of different ethnic groups. Ideally, countries strive for pluralism, where people of all ethnicities and races remain distinct but have social equality. As an example, Algeria is very diverse; with people representing groups from different ethnic back ground history. (1) Algeria is a country of approximately thirty-seven million people located on the northern coast of Africa With a total area of 2,381,741 square kilometers (919,595 sq. mi), Algeria is the tenth-largest country in the world and the largest in Africa, and in the Mediterranean.
This extremely high altitude can cause symptoms such as shortness of breath and nausea. In Africa, Ethiopia is the second most populated country being home to around 85.2 million people. With an annual growth rate of 3.2% Ethiopia is an ever-expanding country. Ethiopia is found in the Horn of Africa. To the north, Ethiopia is bordered by Eritrea and to the west Sudan.
To what extend was the colonisation and decolonisation of Britain’s Africa driven by individuals within Africa? Before the 1870’s Africa was largely unknown to the outside world but, in the 1880’s the scramble of Africa began, where European counties, especially Britain all wanted to colonise Africa. Was the whole reason for British colonising Africa economically or strategically driven or was it led by individuals in Africa (men on the spot) or was it more of a top down process led by the government in Britain? And even though Britain fought so hard to control large parts of Africa it is clear that after World II Britain’s empire was declining especially after India gain independence in 1947. However, the British did try to revive their African empire in the late 40’s and early 50’s but their sudden fall into a steep imperial decline with the Suez crises saw individuals like Macmillan to acknowledge that decolonisation was the only way forward, as it would be more beneficial for Britain to decolonise than to resist the rise of nationalism.
The Nile river also supported in their early political unification between upper and lower Egypt. I believe that without the Nile River the early Egyptians would not have existed. The geographical surroundings of the Nile river has a big impact on the development of the Egyptian civilization. First of all the Nile river is 6695 kilometers (4184 miles) long, with this length, the Nile river is the longest river on Earth starting from Uganda to Ethiopia, flowing through a total of nine countries to the Mediterranean Sea. Located in Sahara desert in Northern Africa, the river flows north while the wind blows south making the Nile the main transportation way.
Imperialism: The Scramble for Africa (1880-1900) was a period of rapid colonization of the African continent by European powers. But it wouldn't have happened except for the particular economic, social, and military evolution Europe was going through. In the end Britain and France had the most colonies and Germany lost out so it was also a major contributor to tension in Europe. Nationalism: Triple Entente, an informal alliance among Great Britain, France, and Russia in the period before World War I. It opposed the Triple Alliance of Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy.
The first civilizations to appear in history started on a river valley or in a place where resources are numerous and example of these are in India where Indus river is found and Tigris where Euphrates is found and many other places (cradles of civilization). The Nile is the longest river in the world, cuts a swath of green and life through the bareness of the giant Sahara desert in northern Africa. It is almost 4160 miles long from its remotest head stream, the Lavironza river in Burundi, in central Africa to its delta on the Mediterranean sea north east of Egypt. The river flows northward and drain 1100100 square miles, about tenth the size of Africa, passing through ten African countries. It has many tributaries but there are two main ones: the White Nile fed by lake Victoria and the Blue Nile coming from Ethiopian mountains.
Ghana (Listeni/ˈɡɑːnə/), officially called the Republic of Ghana, is a sovereign multinational state and unitary presidential constitutional democracy, located along the Gulf of Guinea and Atlantic Ocean, in the subregion of West Africa. Ghana is the 82nd largest country in the world and 33rd largest country on continental Africa by land mass, and Ghana has a land mass of 238,535 km2, with 2,093 kilometres of international land borders. The country is bordered by the Ivory Coast in the west, Burkina Faso in the north, Togo in the east and the Gulf of Guinea and Atlantic Ocean in the south. The word Ghana means "Warrior King". [12] Ghana is a constitutional democracy divided into ten administrative regions, and the world's 56th−most inhabited nation with a population of approximately 27 million as of 2014.
I.Introduction The love of money is the root of all evil. Nigeria is a Country situated in the West Africa region, it is a Country with dense population of over 140 million inhabitants, and most importantly, it is a Country that is very rich in oil. Nigeria is not only the 6th largest oil producer in world, it is also the 8th largest exporter of crude oil. Most of Nigeria’s oil comes from the Niger Delta which is sometimes called the Oil River. The Niger Delta has a lot of regions that generates oil but one of the popular places is Ogoniland.
The Rise of Colonialism in Africa Between 1870 and 1900, Europe set out to colonize Africa for their raw materials. Africa was up against invasions of Europe's military and diplomatic pressures. This did not happen without a fight, and Africans were not happy about this attempt to be colonized. With the exception of Ethiopia and Liveria, Africa had been colonized by Europe by the early twentieth century. Europe wanted to set up and colonize in Africa, mainly because of Africa's raw materials it was purely economic.
Africa is a continent of great size, almost 12 million square miles about three times the size of the United States. Most of it lies in the tropics and, although we often think of Africa in terms of its rain forests, less than ten percent of the continent is covered by tropical forests, and those are mostly in West Africa .Much of the African surface is covered by savannas ,or open grasslands, and by arid plains and deserts. In geological terms, the continent is really formed by a series of high plateaus broken in the east by the Great Rift valley and the mountains that surround it. Large rivers - the Congo, the Nile, the Zambezi, and the Niger - begin in the interior of thecontinentandflowtotheseaovergreatfallsandcataractsthamarkthepassage from the plateau to the coast. These falls have historically made movement from the coast to the interior difficult, but the great river systems have also provided the interior of Africa with routes of communication.