Essays on Africa

Africa has had a tough past. The race for Europeans to colonize Africa began in the 1400’s. This time may be hard to look back at for many native Africans. Their ancestors were kicked out of their own kingdom by new coming egocentric Europeans. One country that went through such a brutal time was East...

Introduction Global Warming has become an increasingly a universal concern in the last few years. In the frenzy, one factor is overlooked, the earth naturally undergoes “warming and cooling cycles naturally response the changes” to certain atmospheric factors (Riphah, 2015), for example volcano eruptions. While earth undergoes this change, it typically occurs thousands of years...

1. Comparison of South Africa food security Most of Africa’s countries are food insecure, notwithstanding trademarked improvements in nutrition over the past two decades. Although in 1994 South Africa some of the political and economic advancements, the country is plagued by unemployment and poverty following the recent global economic change, by steep food and fuel...

1.1 Background Of The Study Domestic Violence can be traced back to the period of Ancient Civilization, a period where women and children were seen as property, which had no rights and could be disposed at any point in time (Fader, 2018). Before the mid-1800s most legal systems saw wife-beating as an exercise of a...

Kenya is a developing country located on the eastern coast of Africa with over 500 kilometres of coastline to the Indian ocean (Figure 1). The population in 2017 was 48.7 million but today is over 52 million, with approximately 5 million living in the countries capital Nairobi (Figure 2). The rest of the population lives...

Sierra Leone is a country located in the Western part of Africa. Corrupt government and private sectors, lack of infrastructural development and incompetent provision of education and right of citizenship are considered to be the factors lead to poverty and insufficiency of economic growth in the country (Stoll, 2011). There are only 40% of the...

In the far side of Africa lies a country that severely lacks a critical ingredient required for their survival. With an overcrowded population of 46 million and growing, the Kenyan water supply isn’t getting any better. Can you believe that 18.8 million Kenyans still rely on unimproved water sources, such as ponds, shallow wells and...

Introduction I would like to begin with a brief overview of international humanitarian law. After which i will briefly describe the context in which the ICTY and SCLA Court was created, its jurisprudence, the court’s role in bringing peace to the area and then, most importantly, the role and limitation of adhoc international criminal tribunals...

Kenya’s competitive edge has long been held back by high corruption levels that have infiltrated each and every sector of the economy. Kenya ranked 137th out of 180 countries in the Corruption Perceptions Index in 2019, with a perceived corruption score of 28 out 100 of the countries public sector (Where 0 is perceived as...

Flooding is amongst the highly destructive, frequent and prevalent environmental hazards and it is of different kind and magnitude ((Wizor and Week, 2014). Flood is an unavoidable natural phenomenon occurring continually in rivers and natural drainage systems, which damages the lives, natural resources and environment, as well as, causes loss of economy and health on...