The role and importance of Africa to the British soon changed though do to imperial competition with France and Germany. ... Using their information on British expansion throughout Africa as a foundation it becomes possible to break down the period of greatest growth between 1880 and 1900 by analyzing British role in Africa prior to 1880, the external roles that competitors such as Germany and France had in forcing England's imperial hand coupled with the internal economic drives for procuring areas of Africa, and the special case and significance of the Cape Colony and British Afrikaner ...

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The findings of this study show that broadcasting - radio in particular - has become the dominant news source for the nation, an effective instrument of propaganda for the government and a powerful influence in the political, social, economic and cultural life of the Zambian people. ... What was achieved initially, benefited urban audiences and has been constrained by problems of manpower, the replacement of equipment and equipment spares, created by inadequate funding and other problems arising from the country's general economic difficulties. ... But now, instead of becoming a synonym ...

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Now a days competition among farmers is ver intense which makes it hard to earn a living from farming. Technology helps farmers to advance in the competition and increase the yield of their crop. ... Many developing countries, for example are faced with economic crisis and political uncertainty, which results in downsizing their financing on family-planning programs. ... Now a days competition among farmers is ver intense which makes it hard to earn a living from farming. Technology helps farmers to advance in the competition and increase the yield of their crop. ...

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Tea has emerged as Kenya's most important cash crop after a decades-long competition with coffee; its primacy has largely been the result of improved production by small farmers. ... The political and economic set-up during the colonial period thus did little for the economic development of the African peoples. However towards the end of the colonial era some economic development had started. ... The independent government was faced with many challenges revolving around the basic problems of economic development. The new government immediately implemented various economic policies and...

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Capitalism is an economic system where such items that can generate monetary value are owned by private businesses and corporations which trade in a 'free market' of competition. ... In this essay, I will examine the actions of both the European nations and later on the newly independent United States to distinguish if the transatlantic slave trade was the main contributor to the development of a capitalist modernity by looking at four major developments in the social and economic structure of the world from 1440-1870. ... The centrality of the transatlantic slave trade to the econo...

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Colonialism, Europeans argues, brought the end of slavery in East and Central Africa and stopped inter-kingdom warfare in parts of West Africa (exploringafrica.matrix.msu.edu) The Three main reasons that applied to European colonialism were • Political/ Strategic influence • Cultural influence • Economic influence (exploringafrica.matrix.msu.edu) It was also resourceful for Europeans to acquire cheap labor and national influence. ... Slavery was abolished in Britain because of a change in economic interests, resistance from enslaved people, parliamentary reform, and abolition...

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It made it even less possible for them to acquire economic position and moral and intellectual education, in short, any social strength comparable to that of the bourgeoisie of the West when it overthrew the aristocracy. ...

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Most contemporary foraging groups, such as the !Kung and other Bushman tribes, are viewed as a "primitive- people. Some have even gone as far to say that they are "the last representatives of the Stone Age."" While it is true that these people have the most similar culture to what we believe primiti...

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The trans-Atlantic slave trade was the largest long-distance coerced movement of people in history and, prior to the mid-nineteenth century, formed the major demographic well-spring for the re-peopling of the Americas following the collapse of the Amerindian population. Cumulatively, as late as 1820, nearly four Africans had crossed the Atlantic for every European, and, given the differences in the sex ratios between European and African migrant streams, about four out of every five females that traversed the Atlantic were from Africa. From the late fifteenth century, the Atlantic O...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate