Agricultural crops, including yams, grains, cocoa, oil palms, kola nuts, and timber, formed the base of Ghana's economy, which was moderately stable during that time. ... Poverty is based on a variety of reasons; they can be economic instability, weak education systems, political mismanagement, or disadvantage in natural resources. ... The post-independence development plan posed by the Khrumah government was unsuccessful. ... Furthermore, the Nkrumah government failed to execute the plan. It was basically disregarded after the government carried out the plan. ...

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Indirect rule was prevalent and local government officials were used. There was limited self-rule and government institutions are based on European styles but allowed local rules. ... These groups also played an important role by discovering new lands, assessing its potential and encouraging their respective governments to imperialize and trade in these areas. ... During this new imperialism period, imperialists took on political control of their colonies and established colonial governments which had the advantage of drawing upon the entire imperial nation's strength and ...

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It is a continent where the majority of the population uses the word "survival" on a regular base. ... However, these are not rules imposed by governments; the kings and the presidents change at a rate that is too high to make it possible to emit any rules that would enforce at least an apparent order in the society. ... or "why don't the governments stop it? ... This could potentially lead to conflicts and misunderstandings and form a base for social unbiased in the African continent. ... Most of the people in Africa don't care about the treaties between West and South Africa, and t...

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Today in sub-Saharan Africa, aid is a weapon used against peoples by their national governments. ... It was only till 1978 Deng Xiaoping opened up China to foreign businesses; meanwhile its growth is attributed to emphasis on education to build its manufacturing base, infrastructure and effect (yet oppressive) institutions to channel these investments to prosperity. ... In no time China will soon be involved in government especially if transaction costs become to high. ... In 2006 Kenya 's government registered 4200 NGO's. ... It is better to work with national governments on how t...

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Between 500 and 800 A.D. they shifted to a sea-based trading economy and began to migrate south by ship. ... By around the 9th century A.D., Africans, Arabs, and Persians who lived and traded on the coast had developed a lingua franca, Swahili, or Kiswahili, a language based on the Bantu language Sabaki that uses Arab and Persian loan words. ... The government rationalized that the exquisite art and surviving architecture of the Shona and Bantu people of South Africa and Zimbabwe were actually the creations of Arabs, Phoenicians, or other non-African peoples. Similarly, the government of Rhode...

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The Story of a Kikuyu Chief -Document E tells the effects colonization had on African government. ... In Things Fall Apart the African people lived by a social class based on the number of titles a man had. Men had more than one wife and they grew yams, which is what their currency and government was based on. ... "The church has grown in strength and the white men subject the villagers to their judicial system and rules of government" (Chapter 20). ...

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The Aztecs had a massive empire based from a central land locked location. The Africans were divided into numerous states across a vast area and were based around the coast, or, at least, were used to dealing with foreign people through trade. ... The fear struck into the heart of Motecuhzoma, king of the Aztecs, by news of the advancing Spaniards is a clear indication of the upper hand already going to the invaders based on religious beliefs... As European governments began to get involved, exploration ran riot with new funding. ... The government would just exile the doomed cleric to Sao ...

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The United States government reports on human trafficking every year and government responses to this issue. Countries in this report are rated in 4 tiers based upon the efforts of their government to prevent trafficking. ... This can be attributed to the effort the countries government makes to prevent the problem. ... Making this continent stand out as an area with little government effort to prevent the trade of humans. ... In these areas governments are actively working to prevent human trafficking (see appendix A). ...

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In order to hold safe these assets, the empires created ports and local political governments to have administrative control over transactions. ... This theory is based on the reality of many parts of Africa where food is not simply bought from a supermarket, but instead is hunted or found in the wild because there is a lack of food within a growing population in West Africa (Peeples, 2014). ... The combination of a small labor force and the exploitation of the resources left West Africa to be susceptible to government turmoil and corrupt leaders. ... This demonstrates a slow development of go...

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What impact do non-government organizations (NGOs) have on the health and well being of African children? ... It is the NGOs that can step in and work where the government is unable. Non-government organizations that come from all over the world are created to help the suffering people of Africa (and other countries in need of help). ... Considering family members are not a likely help for children, government programs would be thought to help them, unfortunately it doesn't happen, but non-government organizations have stepped up to the plate. ... On the flip side, the Modernization th...

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The early foundations of the Islamic empire were sown by powerful armies that brought everyone under the rule of a unified Islamic government. ... The initial ability of Islam to muster large armies and conquer vast expanses across Afro-Eurasia formed the base of the mighty empire, but once out of the hands of the army, it was the job of the caliph to supervise these areas. ... Being a government based on religion, the best way to turn resentful conquered states into loyal territories of the empire was to convert the majority of them to Islam. ... While the armies conquered these lands, the ...

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An example of this is in Ethiopia where political power is distributed based on ethnic groups. ... Authoritarianism was a form of government with no democracy. ... In the 1970's, Maathai founded the Green Belt Movement, an environmental non-governmental organization focused on the planting of trees, environmental conservation, and women's rights. ... Other triggers for the Arab Spring were the Iranian anti-government demonstrations in 2009-10 as well as Obamas speech in Cairo and WikiLeaks showing the political corruption in the region. ... Technology and Democratization in Africa ...

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Nationalism is a political doctrine based on the principle that the boundaries between a nation and state should agree. ... This is the result from the belief that as stable and successful societies must be based on shared values and a common culture, immigration should be firmly restricted or minority groups should be encouraged to conform into the culture of the "host" society. ... Secondly, it stands for the ideal of self-government which is reflected in practice in a belief of constitutionalism and representation. ... Even though cases that portray nationalism to be expansionist and aggres...

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A reparations law would also have to make the government do a background check on all the Americans who would pay the reparations to make sure he/she is a descendant of a slave owner. ... The government and tax payers have already paid trillions of dollars for discrimination in the past. Adversity.Net News and Analysis (2003) writes: Reparations 4 In the 36 years since the passage of the original Civil Rights Act of 1964, trillions of dollars in federal transfer payments, welfare payments, racial job quotas, race-based federal contract set-asides, and race based college admissions have a...

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Colonial Rule in Africa It is important to know for clarification that racism within the colonial context was a form of biological determinism.3 This means that the colonial state could determine the status and capacities of different human populations based on their genetic makeup. ... However the moment the colonial state was established, colonial administrators wanted to develop the state with notions that were simple to comprehend, therefore the formation of tribes was based on either genetic makeup and thus gave each ethnicity certain kind of characteristics. ... Another reason that may h...

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The epic tells that Sundiata made major changes in the organization of the Manlinke government and society. ... History also says that Sundiata set up administrative system based on provinces, which accommodated regional desires for a degree of self- government while allowing the mansa to retain ultimate control over what was becoming the empire of Mali. ...

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Therefore local governments are quick to formulate policies favoring tourism over indigenous people in an attempt to benefit their nations from tourism. ... Even international environmental agreements, international and national environmental policies and ethics policies regarding "sustainable tourism," by global government figures did not follow participatory and actor oriented approaches. ... Cohen (2010) is of the view that even though tourism generally has destructive consequences towards local people, many governments and local authorities in the third world view tourism as panacea t...

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Two studies of Washington-based journalists yield differing results on whether these charges of liberal media bias are grounded in fact. ... Another study, reported by Cliff Kincaid in the May 6, 1996, issue of Human Events, surveyed Washington-based bureau chiefs and congressional correspondents. ... Although Broder feels that political journalists have no ideology, they still have amazing power in elections and the government process. ...

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Globalization is defined as a process that, based on international strategies, aims to expand business operations on a worldwide level, and was precipitated by the facilitation of global communications due to technological advancements, and socioeconomic, political and environmental developments [Nic12]. ... Firstly through the subsidies of the government that paid to food farmers crops stopped, resulting in the increase of price for these products, and secondly the import regime was liberalized causing an increase of goods imported from foreign countries (Ahmed). ...

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Had the government made it a rule that all Black people were to be enslaved rather than simply allowing it, the situation would be somewhat different. ... Aside from any philosophical or idea-based arguments against reparations, there exist a number of logistical barriers to repaying blacks for their suffering. ...

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In figures 12-2 and 12-3, you can see both the difference between men and women's earnings, and women's earnings based on educational attainment. ... And, as of 1997, 21.5% of the nation's state legislature were women, including Speaker of the House, a prestigious position in the United States Government. ...

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The primary issue that the entire population of the earth face today is that the human race is split-up based on several minute factors. ... The governments all over the world are not concerned about the starving kids of Somalia and other African nations. ...

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For the Homo Habilis, the Oldowan Tools gave them a lot of advantages to get a more meat-based diet, which contained more proteins and probably helped to a achieve that growth of the brain in upcoming species. ...

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