Out of Africa

Berverley NAIDOO: The Other Side of Truth Chapter 1, Lagos, Nigeria Survivors The scene takes place in Nigeria, in Lagos, in Mr Solaja’s house in the morning before children go to school. Characters: Sade: A girl of 12 years old. She is Mr Solaja’s daughter and Femi’s sister. Femi: A boy of 10 years old. Sade’s brother and Solaja’s son. Mr Folarin Solaja: an outspoken journalist who Works for Speak. He is Sade’s and Femi’s father. Speak is a newspaper. Uncle Tunde: Folarin’s brother

FIRST CHAPTER: ECONOMIC GROWTH, AN INTRODUCTION What’s the goal of economic agents? 3types of agents: households, firms and governments. For households: Higher economic growth leads to higher wages (if correctly distributed) which leads to higher consumption. So economic growth for households is a way to increase their consumption. Firms aim at doing high profits, and higher economic growth leads to higher profits. For the government, a high growth helps to reduce or cut down fiscal debt

FAIR-TRADE The term fair-trade refers to a model of international trade which promotes the payment of fair prices and improves social and environmental conditions for farmers in developing countries. The farmers export products such as coffee, cocoa, sugar, tea bananas, honey, cotton, wine and fresh fruit. The Fair-trade Foundation, which endorses products with its logo, was registered as a charity in 1992. The Fair-trade mark is a guarantee that poor farmers in the developing world are getting

SCIENTIFIC EXPLORATION OF WEST AFRICA A GEOGRAPHICAL ENTREPRISE? – In the nineteenth century, explorers of West Africa and geographers became involved in crossed scientific relationship. This paper emphasizes the upcoming gap between the scientific aims that geographers and explorers assumed. Geographers focused their investigations on location matters in order to map out traveler’s routes through unknown countries, and thus give geographical images of the inner parts of Africa. In the meantime, explorers

d’achat In keeping with past work, we measure poverty in terms of household consumption expenditure per capita. Of the 265 surveys, 181 allow us to estimate the distribution of consumption expenditures; this is true of all the surveys used in the Middle East and North Africa, South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa (Table 1). For about one quarter of the cases in which we do not have consumption distributions we do have survey-based estimates of mean consumption, in which case we replace the income mean

As Congress and the Super Committee work to reduce our nation’s deficits, I urge you to create a circle of protection around programs for hungry and poor people in the United States and around the world. The numbers are staggering. Millions of families in the United States continue to feel the effects of the recession—nearly one in six people in our country are poor. Around the world, nearly 1 billion people are hungry, and one child dies every 3.6 seconds from poverty, hunger, and preventable

SCIENTIFIC EXPLORATION OF WEST AFRICA A GEOGRAPHICAL ENTREPRISE? – In the nineteenth century, explorers of West Africa and geographers became involved in crossed scientific relationship. This paper emphasizes the upcoming gap between the scientific aims that geographers and explorers assumed. Geographers focused their investigations on location matters in order to map out traveler’s routes through unknown countries, and thus give geographical images of the inner parts of Africa. In the meantime, explorers

UNIVERSITY OF YAOUNDE II RESEARCH CENTER FOR POLITICAL AND STRATEGIC STUDIES MASTER IN STRATEGIE, DEFENSE, SECURITY, CONFLICT AND DISASTER MANAGEMENT UE: QUESTIONS D’ACTUALITES POLITICS AND RELIGION IN THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA BY MBILA DAVID RENE APRIL, 2010 POLITICS AND RELIGION IN FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA INTRODUCTION Nigeria has a population of over 149 million (roughly one in six Africans) with a population growth rate of 2%. Nigeria had a 2008 HDI ranking of #158 and

provider of computer products and services, founded in 1984 on a simple concept of selling computer systems directly to customers. This ‘direct business model’ is designed to eliminate retailers that add unnecessary time and cost, or can diminish Dell's understanding of customer expectations and allows the company to build systems to order. Over the past few years Dell has grown from number five in the personal com¬puter market to number one at the end of 2002 (see table 1 below). Much of that growth

held in Germany in Gummersbach the seminar: "Local government and Civil Society" which came within the framework of the implementation of annual program of the International Academy for Leadership (IAF). The seminar lasted seven days and began with the words of welcome directed to the location of the participants by Ms. Brigit Lamm, Director of the IAF. Ms. Lamm also made a presentation of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation, showed its links with the Liberal Party, its objectives, its modus operandi and