Niger is mostly covered by deserts, hills, and sand due to the Sahara Desert and Sahel located within its borders. It is typically split into three regions. In the North, it is a desert region that contains the Sahara. In the middle, the area is semi-arid region due to the Sahel. In the southwest, there is a small fertile area (SOS Children, n.d.). Because of its size and location, Niger is bordered by seven countries. The country gets its name from the Niger River, the countries lowest point. Because of its climate classification of Sub- Tropical, it has a very hot and dry climate which often causes droughts. In the north, rainfall is usually limited to an average of six inches per year. As you travel south, the rainfall slowly increases to up to thirty inches.
Due to these severe droughts, the Niger River is the only consistent source of water. Other sources of water can be found, such as wells, water tables, or oasis (SOS Children, n.d.). Niger also sits on a large aquifer called lullemeden. Due to the overuse by Niger and surrounding countries, the water is depleting faster than the rain can replace it. While Lake Chad is found in Niger, it is only a semi-permanent lake. During the dry
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Where Niger is mostly made up of deserts and dry lands, Slovakia has forests covering two-fifths of its land. The nation is a landlocked country located in towards the center of Europe. Toward the south of Slovakia, the region is characterized by lowlands that are very fertile. Dominating the Slovakian topography is the Ore Mountains in the middle and the Carpathian Mountain Range in the north. Because of its location, the main factors of the climate are the wind from the west and altitude. While in the lowlands yearly average temperatures are ten degrees Celsius, in higher elevations, the average temperature is about negative 3 degrees Celsius. This causes cold, humid winters and very mild summers (World Trade Press,
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Western attitudes to African people and culture have always affected how their art was appreciated and this has also coloured the response to the art from Benin.
According to Beaueboeuf-Laufontant, racialization can be defined as the placement of groups in particular statues within the matrix of domination is justified through the generation and dissemination of controlling images. As a result of overaching ‘’matrix of domination”, a few statuses are considered normative and deserving of first class citizenship while most others are deemed constitutive of deviance and requiring subordination. As representations of subordinated groups, controlling images guide behavior toward and from these persons, constrain what is seen and believed about them, and when internalized, profoundly influence the self-perceptions of the marginalized. Like stereotypes, controlling images are generalized representations about
Niger is located in Western Africa, between Sahel and the Sahara. Since the Sahara covers sixty-six percent of the country, Niger is one of the driest countries in the world. On the hottest months, from March to June, temperatures can reach up to 122 Fahrenheit. On the other hand, during the night time temperature can drastically drop to below freezing levels. Miles of sand dunes cover northern Niger, but vegetation is almost non-existent. The famous air mountains are located in central Niger. They cover 32,000 sq mi and help support the farming communities with their “berly-there” vegetation. Central Niger has semi-fertile land allowing oases and vegetation to live. Southern Niger, the most prominent to grassland and plants, is located in
Niger, home of the free flowing Niger River, is a Sub-Saharan, western African nation. Sadly, it is an extremely poor country because part of the country is desert and less than 3% open for crop use. The present economic situation is bleak at best. Yet, the vibrant tradition and history of this country lives today in its tribes and its people even through all of its adversities. From severe droughts to military coups to a dysfunctional government to the culture has stayed strong.
Modern day Benin is located along the Western coast of Africa. Benin is only 112,622 square kilometers, making it one of Africa’s smallest countries. Benin today however, differs significantly from the kingdom that it was during the pre-colonial and colonial periods. The people, culture, and government have all changed due to colonization. (The World Fact Book, 2014)
A desert is a region so arid due to little rainfall that it supports only sparse and widely spaced vegetation or no vegetation at all. There are many different types of deserts including Trade wind deserts, Midlatitude deserts, Rain shadow deserts, and many more. The largest trade wind desert is the Sahara desert that is located in North Africa. Dry winds use cloud cover to allow more sunlight to heat the land. The Sahara desert has reached temperatures of 122 degrees Fahrenheit. The Mid Latitude deserts have many interior drainage basins far from oceans and have a wide range of annual temperatures. These deserts are more common in North America.
MailOnline, 2012. Massive underground reserves of water found in some of Africa's driest areas. [Online]
There are 80 countries that have been suffering from a lack of clean water, and two billion people lack access to freshwater, especially South Africa (Alois). This area of countries is the driest in the world - Sudan, Ethiopia, Egypt and so on. Like in the book A Long Walk to Water by Linda Sue Park, Nya, who lives in Sudan, has been lacking clean water. She has to find water every day for her family. Luckily, Nya got help from Salva who used to live in Sudan and came back from America to build the water system for her village. However, there are still many people around the world that have been suffering to find clean water for basic use. There are many factors that cause a lack of clean water around the world: geography of countries, deforestation,
Due to geography and population growth, the Middle East nations are faced with a growing demand for a shrinking water supply. Throughout most of the Middle East region rainfall is irregular and the rainy season is very short. The World Bank reports that this area (including North Africa) has 5% of the world’s population, but only 1% of the world’s water. Droughts have been occurring more frequently and lasting longer, warning of a bleaker future.
In literature, the reader may be drawn to a character or find him or her appealing when, in real life, they find him or her intolerable. In the play A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare, this character is Robin Goodfellow. Robin has some flaws, such as always making disasters, making fun of people, and not doing the best thing. Even with all of the flaws, Robin Goodfellow also has a miniscule amount of good. He is very well known around the literature world.
The name of my country is the Republic of Cameroon. Cameroon, which is located in Central Africa, shares its border with the Central African Republic, Chad, the Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, and Nigeria. Cameroon has an area of 183,568 square miles. Tennessee is 42,180 square miles which means Cameroon is roughly 4.35x the size of Tennessee or a little bigger than California which is 163,695 square miles. Cameroon has a diverse terrain with coastal plain in the southwest, dissected plateau in the center, mountains in the west, and plains in the north. It has been called “Africa in miniature” because of this diverse terrain. Cameroon’s highest point is Fako on Mt. Cameroon (4,095m), and its lowest point is at the Atlantic Ocean (0m). The percentage of arable land in Cameroon is 13.04% (“Africa: Cameroon”). Cameroon’s climate varies across the country. It is tropical along the coast and has little rain for parts of the year and is hot in the north (Africa: Cameroon”). The north has a single wet season and high temperatures. This wet season is from May to the end of September. The south has a moderate climate with fairly constant temperatures and two wet seasons with heavy, regular rains. These wet seasons include a short rainy season from March to June and the big rains come between August and September (“Cameroon Climate and Weather”).
The Sahara Desert is the world’s largest desert area. The word Sahara comes from the Arabic word sahra’, meaning desert. It extends from the Africa’s Atlantic Ocean side to the Red Sea and consists of the countries of Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, Egypt, Mauritania, Mali, Niger, Chad, and Sudan. It is about 5,200 miles long. Overall, the Sahara Desert covers 3,500,000 square miles. The geography of the desert is varied. In the west, the Sahara is rocky with varied elevation. It does contain underground rivers, which sometime penetrate the surface, resulting in oases. The central region of the Sahara has more elevation than the other areas, with peaks such as Emi Koussi and Tahat. Even though the area lacks rainfall, these peaks are snowcapped during the winter. The Eastern part of the Sahara, the Libyan Desert, is dry with very few oases.
NIGERIA AND THE PATH OF ECONOMIC PROSPERITY. Economic development is a term that economists, politicians, and others have used frequently since the 20th Century. The concept, however, has been in existence in the West for centuries. The term refers to economic growth accompanied by changes in output distribution and economic structure. It is concerned with quality improvements, the introduction of new goods and services, risk mitigation and the dynamics of innovation and entrepreneurship.