of Beyond Borders‚ a film in which she plays a character who eventually works for UNHCR. It was also during the timeframe of writing these journals that Jolie adopted her Cambodian-born son‚ Maddox. Notes from My Travels details Jolie’s visits to Sierra Leone‚ Tanzania‚ Pakistan‚ Cambodia‚ and Ecuador. The genre of this book is a memoir. You don’t necessarily see
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According to the book Global Health 101‚ Malnutrition is various forms of poor nutrition. Underweight or stunting and overweight‚ as well as micronutrient deficiencies‚ are forms of malnutrition (Skolnik‚ 2016). In Sierra Leone‚ there are children who are suffering from malnutrition because they are not receiving the vitamins they need to be healthy. Without micronutrients‚ many children suffer from stunted growth and development or end up dying from diseases that their bodies should be able to fight
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Nigeria’s Religious and Cultural Conflict  Ethnic conflict has scared Nigeria dating back to the slave trade and is still apparent today. The clash between Muslims and Christians throughout the Nigerian state has brought about concern on how stable a nation Nigeria is. Recently‚ the country of 126 million has seen a dramatic increase in violence. Since the election of Olusegun Obasanjo in 1999‚ there has been over 10‚000 Nigerians killed due to ethnic‚ religious‚ or political violence
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One of the biggest issues facing African historians is the fact that the study of actual African History is relatively new. A large majority of the sources available are written from the point of view of Europeans‚ with an intended audience of Europeans.1 In this egocentric method of reporting history‚ Africans were viewed more as objects: a people with a past but no history.2 The written “historical” sources provided by imperialists robbed Africans of their voice. The principal challenge facing
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A Long Way Gone – Short Essay During the Sierra Leone Civil War that started on March 23‚ 1991‚ the eleven-year armed conflict caused the displacement of many citizens and the conscription of child soldiers. The novel A Long Way Gone‚ shows the memoir of Ishmael Beah’s childhood during the violent years of the war. Throughout the story the author Beah embodies the loss of innocence in many parts of his early life. Using the different events that Beah experiences‚ the author displays the transition
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The Amistad was a ship that made its way across the Atlantic Ocean to Cuba in 1839. It carried more than fifty slaves in inhumane conditions‚ but on July 2‚ the slaves freed themselves and rebelled. The captive’s journey is a story of rebellion‚ human rights‚ and the "unquenchable human spirit of the world.” (paragraph 11) The Freedom Schooner Amistad is a modern model of the Amistad. Just because they have similar names does not mean that the two ships are the same. One significant difference
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North American shores. Soon afterwards‚ the Trans-Atlantic slave trade would become a massive empire connecting three continents. Through stories of individuals caught in its net‚ like a 10-year-old girl named Priscilla who was transported from Sierra Leone to South Carolina in the mid-18th century‚ tracing the appearance of plantation slavery in the American South. The late 18th century saw a global explosion of freedom movements‚ and The Black Atlantic examines the Era of Revolutions American‚ French
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particular ethnic community. -Also in 1990s was the rise of an ethnic state. Ethiopia- political power is distributed based on ethnic groups. -Militarization of ethnicity: rise of ethnic militias that create wars/civil wars/violence. Ex: Sierra Leone‚ Liberia‚ & Rwanda (genocide in 1994). Also DRC. Ex: Somalia- became a heaven for radically religious activities. In 1991- there were clan warfare’s that destroyed the state. “Me against my brother” “me and my brother against my family.” “My
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Organization of Violence in Postcolonial African Cities." Cultural Anthropology. Volume 22 #3 August 2007. pp. 400–428 It all started December 24‚ 1989 when a rebels group lead by Charles Taylor. Enter Monrovia through Nimba county and Freetown Sierra Leone many innocent children died ‚ so many properties was destroyed ‚ the weakness of this article many government official were killed‚ no foods‚ no water. The United Nations never try help or step in to stop the war. The strength of this article
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directly tied to the increased demand for the gathering of raw materials from Africa (Freund 54). This slave trade created a new manner of trader who worked as an intermediary between European traders and African slaveholders‚ such as could be found in Sierra
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