In the 4th century BC, Yoruba people we not initially known as Yoruba although they have common sentiments and share a common ethnicity and language group. Both archeology and traditional Yoruba oral historians confirm the existence of people in the same region for several millennia. The name “Yoruba” is most likely an adaptation of ‘Yo ru ebo’, which means, “Will venerate.” The Yoruba civilization remains one of the most technologically and artistically advanced in West Africa to this time. To add, some contemporary historians contend
Africa is the second-largest and second-most populated continent. It is a place full of poverty, war, and disease. But it hasn’t always been this way. The African continent has a rich history of survival and splendor, though much of that has been depleted over time. However, in the time before the Europeans arrived in Africa in the late 15th century, the civilizations of Africa had already accomplished many great things.
Ethiopia, situated inside the Horn of Africa, is located in the farthest east side of Africa whereas Cameroon is located in the middle west side of Africa. Cameroon and Ethiopia have a very similar economic history where they have both been producing approximately the same amount of agriculture, with an agricultural production growth above 120 every year (United Nations’ Food and Agricultural Production, 2001), but exhausted very differently. Not long before Cameroon’s current leader, Paul Biya, took office in the mid 1980s, Cameroon had a long sustained economic growth where agriculture played a major role in the country, contributing nearly 50% of the economic growth at the time (Rudar, 2008). This production was because of the state’s subsidies to the farmers in terms of agricultural inputs, equipment, transfer of technology and finance. At this time, however, crops like cocoa, coffee, and cotton (Cameroon’s main agricultural
Gradual European immigration from Italy, Spain, France, Britain, and Germany followed independence. Chinese arrived in the 1850s, replacing slave workers, and have since greatly influenced Peruvian society. The majority of the people in Peru are Amerindians, mostly Quechua and Aymara, or mestizos who are of mixed white and Amerindian ancestry. With about 29.5 million inhabitants, Peru is the fourth most populous country in South America. Its demographic growth rate declined from 2.6% to 1.6% between 1950 and 2000; population is expected to reach approximately 42 million in 2050.
Chad There is a country located in the central part of Africa and that country is Chad. Chad is a large country with an area of 1.284 million square kilometers. That is a little over three times the size of California. The climate in Chad is tropical in the south and more of a desert in the north. There is 300 square kilometers of irrigated land and Chad is also a significant source of water in the Sahel.
2012 People In Kansas live 2.8 Millions people (2008). Nearly 360‘000 live in the biggest city Wichita and about 120‘000 live in the capital Topeka. The unimployment rate in Kansas is 6.9%, which is not that bad for the USA. Consequently Kansas is in the best quarter of the US. The worst rates have California, Rhode Island, Nevada and Puerto Rico.
There are actually five other major languages: Serer, Alpuular, Mandingo, Diola, and Bassari. Senegalese languages are primarily oral rather than written, although younger Senegalese can often write in their native language using a modified form of the Latin alphabet. However, Muslims may use the Arabic alphabet to write in their native language. Wolof is also spoken in Gambia and Mauritania and is the native language of the ethnic group of the Wolof people. Like the neighbouring language Fula, it belongs to the Atlantic branch of the Niger-Congo language family.
The capital city is Yamoussoukro. Economy Ivory Coast is heavily dependent on agriculture and related activities, which engage roughly 70% of the population. Ivory Coast is the world's largest producer and exporter of cocoa beans and a significant producer and exporter of coffee and palm oil. Since the end of the civil war in 2003, political turmoil has continued to damage the economy, resulting in the loss of foreign investment and slow economic growth. GDP grew by more than 2% in 2008 and around 4% per year in 2009-10.
2007 Somalis in Edmonton came from a region known as “Somali Peninsula” (Horn of Africa). “Of all the problems created or left unsolved by colonial rule in Africa, none is as potentially dangerous as that of Somali division in the east of the continent. From the Horn of Africa itself to the west stretch the Somali people, most of them today in the Somali republic, some of them French Somaliland, some in Kenya’s Northern District, some in the eastren regions of Ethopia, and nearly all of them passionately loyal to a united Somali nation” African Profile, p 154, Ronald Segal Penguin Books, 1962. Funded by: Community Partnership Enhancement Fund (CPEF) Needs Assessment Research for Somali Community in
With increasing demand for these facilities, organizations are seeing 25 to 60 percent increases (November 27, 1986). For example, the Holy Trinity Ministry to the Poor projected a 144 percent increase this year (November 27, 1986). The economy of Texas with an unemployment rate of 9.5 percent (1.5 percent higher the past year) along with the increasing number of transient out-of-towners has helped increase the problem with homeless being on the streets (November 27, 1986). In addition, the shortage of more than 45,000 units of low-income housing,