Friday 28 March 2014

Tribealism

There are loads of different tribes in Africa.

 Maasai
This Tribe is known to rule a big area of East Africa. They are also very good warriors and herders. There rank in society is to do with the ammount of cows they own, which also determines how many wives they have.

Thursday 27 March 2014

The poorest Country in Africa is the Republic of Congo


locator map of Democratic Republic of the Congo



The Republic Of Congo is in the centre of Africa. It used to be owned by France. It is the poorest country in Africa. It is still a developing country.
 The average age expectancy is 58 years.
  The population is 4,366,266
  Its under a dictatorship
The main goals the country is aming for is equality between male and females and education by 2015 


credit to this link for the photo http://www.biyokulule.com/Dark_continent.htm




Monday 24 March 2014

Exporting in Africa

The main Countries that Export in Afrcia are Algeria, Libya, Zambia, South Africa. The main exports in these Countries are oil, copper and diamonds. Except the Western World exploit these sort of countries because there vunerable. The fact people work for such little ammounts of money in Africa the Western World can get the products made alot cheaper and yet still sell them for the same price.

Diamonds are a very popular export. However roughly 25% of diamonds are corrupt. Leaders kidnap people and pay them very little to dig for gold. They work for hours apon hours for very little money and if they find a diamond they shout and the leader comes and gets it. If you steal one and get caught they offer you a short sleave or long sleave which means they cut your hand of at your rist for short sleave or at above your elbow for long sleave. The leaders sell the diamonds to dealers and they sell them on and this means it funds the weapons that the rebels have since they are the dealers.





http://youtu.be/XtPX2kXhu7I

Friday 28 February 2014

Introduction

My name is Evan, I am in transition year and I have to make a blog as part of my curriculum. I am doing my blog on "The Geography of Africa"