Essays on Africa

Introduction Alternative dispute resolution mechanism refers to settlement of conflicts without referring the matter to the long and costly court processes. There are several ways of settling disputes that have greatly been embraced in Kenya. They include but are not limited to mediation, conciliation, arbitration,…

Introduction In the 1970s Harvard University political scientist John Rawls (1999, p. 4) argued that a society is well-ordered when it is effectively regulated by a public conception of justice in which “(1) everyone accepts and knows that the others accept the same principles of…

Jane Battersby is an urban geographer from England who lives and works in South Africa. She is a researcher at the African Center for Cities (ACC) at the University of Cape Town, where her work is centered around urban food systems in topics such as…

Food One of the most popular aspects of Nigerian culture is her food. With over five hundred indigenous tribes, Nigeria boosts of numerous native delicacies unique to her localized menu. The Igbos known for their spicy and colorful soups have many other food forms as…

It is imperative that we keep moving forward, trying new things, and opening new doors, because it is only curiosity that can lead us down new paths – or what we like to call innovation in modern terminology. Certain elements however may deflect ones interest…

Unemployment is the result of too many people, too few jobs. In other words unemployment is the result of over-population because over-population is defined as a condition where a country’s human population exceeds the carrying capacity of its environment meaning in this case that the…

This paper will argue that the analysis of African origins of humanity in ways of human adaptation from Africa to Eurasia and Australia. In the textbook Patterns of World History disagrees with recent scholarship on Arthur, Byerlee and Tomasell. African origins of humanity in ways…

Diaspora for Development in Africa is quite an interesting read, as it is based on papers selected from a conference on Diaspora and Development that was organized by the World Bank in 2009. In addition, many chapters, although relating to the African diaspora and its…

One of the key characteristics which are explored through this chapter, is the close correlation within the text between sex and violence. Throughout the course of the novel there seems to be a breakdown of the romantic association of sex, which distorts and alters it…

In South Africa, two unique ideas of joblessness are utilized routinely: the strict (thin) and the extended (wide) definition. The tight definition applies a pursuit of employment test though the wide definition acknowledges as jobless the individuals who did not scan for work in a…