Africa Flashcards
4 generations
- 1st: independence
- 2nd: chaos/ corruption
- 3rd: stabilizer
- 4th: create prosperity, institutions, universities
Issues of Tunisia
Solutions of Tunisia
Groups protesting it
- Lack of political parties
- Restoration of country’s constitution
- spiraled toward capital from neglected rural areas
- need to grapple with class divisions
- Tunisia leadership must incorporate a generation of young people
- angry youth
- Islamist militants
5 Fundamental Changes
- Rise of democracy
- Stronger economic policies
- End of debt crisis
- New technologies
- New generation of leaders
AMERICA vs LIBERIA
- both have states
- both have presidents (24th is ellen Johnson sirleaf)
- Liberia has song dedicated to george bush
- both have the dollar
- Liberia is stepchild of America
Issues of Egypt
Solutions of Egypt
Groups protesting it
- rose in revolt as strikes across country brought daily life to a halt
- started uprisings
- repairing public sector
- open society, no leadership helped this country
- redesign institutions
- citizens concerned with drivers license
- bloggers like Khaled
Issues of Libya
Solutions of Libya
Groups protesting it
- Provincial leaders working on strengthening independent republic
- ignited protests in eastern provinces
- recover from civil war
- restore security and introduce law under Qaddafi
- ragtag bands of armed rebels
- Libyan tribes and families
Leader of Egypt
Mubarak
Leader of Tunisia
Ben Ali
Leader of Libya
Muammar Qaddafi
Ivory Coast
Lady sat in on office meetings and husband forced to 20 years of prison
St. Paul’s cathedral
Cameroon
Chimpanzees becoming extinct and deforestation
Mount Cameroon- active volcano
New roads being built for farmers- danger
Guinea
Ebola, public health agency of Canada
Mount Nimba- tourism and protection
High risk for diseases
One of most devastating areas
Egypt
Terrorism- Muslim brotherhood
Boy beaten because didn’t do homework
Nile River
16th most populated
In need of American weapons
South Sudan
Terrorism threat. Lost boys
Mt. kinyeti
2011 gained independence
2 civil wars previous to succession
Thailand
Water pollution
Dry, mountainous, tropical
Farmers ARENT sharing water