Mr. Garfield is making me do this and I don't want to If I had the choice I would most likely not be doing this, but know I have to do this or at most I would get a 20 out of 30 on the tes and I woulg. fail this class.

Malaria

Malaria is a big issue in Africa because they don't have the technology to help cure it

The 5 regions of Africa

North Africa, West Africa, Central Africa, East Africa, Southern Africa

Atlantic Slave Trade

They took 12 million Africans and traded them over the atlantic

Arab Slave Trade

They took 18 million people from Africa And traded them to the Sahara

Desetifacation

This is when fertile lands turn into a desert

AIDS/HIV

AIDS/HIV is a big issue in Africa because they don't have the money to buy technology to help cure it

Ethnic Diversity

Africa has so many different Religions and languages that it gets confusing

Child soldiers

Africa has started recruiting child soldiers

Apartheid

Forced segregation Nelson mandela won the nobell prize for peace

Poverty cycle

Hunger poor health---> Lack of education---> Lack of opportunity--->low income

The scramble for Africa

The europeans came to africa and claimed as much land as they could.

The recource curse

The resource curse is where there is so many resources that the conty becomes poor because they can't pay for all of it.