Education in Africa

Hello everyone, Katie here! So today i'm going to try something new and colorful!! (Which i will be doing for a while). Today, we are going to talk about education for children in Africa. I may not be able to post a picture with this page so i'm sorry about that. By the way, this page may be a little short so i'm sorry about that too. Anyway, lets get on with it shall we? 

So the thing that makes education in Africa is all the challenges they face: say for example, language barriers. It speaks for itself don't you think? Although UNESCO have recommended since the 1950s that the children be taught early literacy in their mother tongue, progressing later to other language such English and French, not all African countries implement this effectively. The students are basically forced to switch to languages such as English and French before acquiring proficiency in these languages. 

Next is the lack of proper facilities and educators. Africa has trouble employing teachers because of low pay and no suitable people can be found for the job. This shows a lack of equal education opportunity given to children from different parts of the same country.
They also have trouble with emigration: it leads to a loss of highly educated people and financial loss. There's not much to type about this except: the loss of skilled people can only be replaced with another huge cost which simply the loss of money spent for educating people who then leave and new people to replace them. Even though an almost 5.5 percent of GDP investment in education, the loss makes it difficult for the government to budget another amount into education, while they should be focusing more on military budget and dept servicing. 
Lastly is the military and conflict in Africa. While the number of people dropping out of school has been increasing very dramatically, one of the influences on education is the diversion of public funds from education to the military spending; that and with the civil war, nobody really thinks about education and just kind of ignores it.


I honestly don't know much about this, as I am still learning about it, but I hope this helped you with you're work or something. Teach you soon! Bye!

Environmental Issues

Hi, Katie here! I know it's been a long time so today we will be going over the environment issues in Africa. Now I don't remember if we've talked about this yet, but if we did, let's just review it.

In Africa, there is a lot of environment issues, which causes more bad things to happen, such as diseases from poor water quality. The cause of poor water quality is that African countries increase water pollution from factories, which basically ruins the water and makes it impossible to use; and contamination from animals and human waste, along with chemicals and other kinds of waste leak into the water. Natural phenomena such as snails, worms, insect or larvae, and other parasites, are the main factors affecting Africa's poor water quality; these organisms can and will cause waterborne diseases which reduce life expectancy, lessen the quality of life, and slow down economic development.

Next is desertification, one of the worst of the issues, even though they are all really bad. Anyway, desertification is the process of desert expanding into areas that had been been farmland. More than one-third (1/3) of Africa is threatened by desertification. Desertification is often intensified by human mismanagement through overgrazing animals, over cultivation of crops, deforestation, and over irrigation; it worsened by drought too. The effect of desertification is that farming and livestock decrease and poor soil increases, this causes droughts and this left people to famine and death. During the 1970s, 80s, and 90s, large areas of Africa experienced drought. On the human side, this led to famine and death, on the environmental side, it resulted in accelerated desertification. The many people who live in these areas often face starvation and poverty. Some Africans work hard to replant trees, build windbreaks to keep out sand, and to push the desert back whenever they can, to help in any way they can.

The next one is deforestation. Deforestation is the process of forests being destroyed to make way for human development, the main cause being commercial logging. As the number of trees shrink, so does the amount of oxygen produced. As Africa's population increases and nations try to develop economically, deforestation has become a growing concern. This causes an amount of harmful carbon dioxide in the air to increase; this also causes the destruction of the rain forest' natural resources.