West Africa Today

Book "West Africa Today"

Page. 13

Female Continent

          There are a lot of people in Africa living between the Tropic Cancer and Tropic of Capricorn. In addition, they speak many languages. Also, most of these people are illiterate and the traditional tribe is primary. The traditional tribesmen transferred from mature governments to African leaders. Moreover, the leaders have a respect from the Westerns. According to “the leaders of each new regime, large and small, have repeatedly declared their intention to develop a modern welfare state along broad western lines, supported by an expanding economy based on foreign trade and investment, and scored by statewide military and police services” that means, Each leader comes develops many things in large and small cities by foreign investment to make improve in the cities and improve the military and police services.

     

Book "Profiles of African Leaders

Page. 46

Tom Mboya- The young man from Kenya

Tom Mboya was born in 1930 on sisal estate in Kenya's white highlands. Also, his parents were illiterate. Tom Mboya came leader in 1960 as a young leader in Africa. Also, he want to changing Kenya from a European colony to an African country as the first step from his plan. Moreover, there are four geographical sections: the coastal plain rising from Indian Ocean on the east, the board  plateau, the eastern Rift Valley, the bordering mountains and the Lake Plateau beyond the Rift to row and to the north vegetated with scrub. Also, the Africans voted the first time were eight Africans members, and the second time the number of members were changed to fourteen African elected.  He achieved in the leadership of the anticommunist International Confederation of Free Trade Unions. Also, there were a lot of African leaders such as: Haile Selassie, Julius Nyerere, Dr. Kwame Nkrumah and many others leaders.  

Book "Burkina Faso"

Page. 77, 79 and 100

The Economy Of Growth Amid Poverty

       Burkina was live in poor country and there was a small economy. Also, They were dependent in domestic consumption on the production of cereals, exports of gold and cotton and there were some other resources such as work force. Moreover, In 1980 Burkina's economy is growing better not only in west Africa but in all Africa. According to "Because of its limited natural resources and harsh  climate, Upper Volta was relegated to the back burner of French colonial economic development until  about world war I, the French were merely a drain on the local economy". That means, the French want this country because there were a lot of natural resources. In 1900, the French improved the transportations in Africa because they need the naturals resources. Also, there were many things did it to support the new administration in Africa specially  Ouagadougou such as: roads, governments buildings, schools, hospital and football stadium. In addition, French opened the central bank for Africa. Burkina put three large parks: Po National Park, the Arly National Park and the Grand Parc W, in east and central Africa to attract tourists.

 

Works Cited:

Hoepli, Nancy L.. West Africa today. New York: H.W. Wilson Co., 1971. Print.

Melady, Thomas Patrick. Profiles of African leaders. New York: Macmillan, 1961. Print.

Englebert, Pierre. Burkina Faso: unsteady statehood in West Africa. Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press, 1996. Print.