FAMINE, HUNGER AND STARVATION IN AFRICA: Challenge To African and World Leaders - Softcover

Quaye, Kofi

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1425928285 ISBN 13: 9781425928285

Publisher: AuthorHouse, 2006

Synopsis

Skeletal bodies of men and women staring lifelessly out of sunken eye sockets. Children with bloated stomach who look decades older than their actual years. Crowds stampeding towards helicopters. Trucks unloading food donated by international humanitarian organizations. Hunger, starvation, famine and death, depicted in their worst forms. These are some of the images the media have succeeded in creating and fostering on the minds of the general public all over the world about the African famine. Famine in Africa is real, seemingly perpetual, and not getting any better. If anything, it is worsening. The lives of millions of people are at risk right now.Can the problem of famine, hunger and starvation in Africa be solved? Has international food aid helped in any realistic way? Did the African create the problem? What role did globalization play in creating the problem? This is the book that asks all the questions that many have not dared to ask and provides all the answers people have not dared to provide. It discusses, analyzes, and puts the issue in its proper historical context, by delving into the past and providing details of the underlying factors that contributed to the creation of the problem of famine, hunger and starvation in Africa

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About the Author

ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Dr. John Karefah Marah is a native of the Republic of Sierra Leone, West Africa, where he received his elementary and secondary education; he later attended Southwick High in Southwick, Massachusetts, the State University College of New York atOneonta, Tuskegee Institute, Tuskegee, Alabama, and Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY. Dr. Marah is currently professor of African and Afro-American Studies at the State University of New York College at Brockport where he teaches African -American Literature, The Black Woman Today, African Politics, and Exploring the Black Experience. Dr. Marah has appeared on television as well as radio in Rochester, NY, concerning starvation in Africa and Apartheid in South Africa; Dr. Marah has published extensively on Pan-Africanism and Education, including Pan-African Education: The Last Stage Of Educational Developments in Africa, (1989) and African People in the Global Village (1998).

Edition details

• Publisher: AuthorHouse
• Publication date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1425928285
• ISBN 13: 9781425928285
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 84