Africa in CrisisAfrica in Crisis

from Henry Brun’sfrom Henry Brun’s

The World TodayThe World Today

The Six Challenges in AfricaThe Six Challenges in Africa

• Civil wars and dictatorships

• Political corruption and economic mismanagement

• AIDS epidemic has swept the continent

• Less than half of the people living south of the Sahara have basic health care

• Nearly two-thirds lack safe drinking water

• African life expectancy is fifty-two years

The Other Five Challenges in AfricaThe Other Five Challenges in Africa

• Illiteracy

• Population Growth

• Resources

• High Infant Mortality Rate

• Political Corruption

ColonialismColonialism

• Africa – Rich in resources1. People – Humans

2. Materials

• Colonialism: one country’s control over another’s territory and people.– Implies economic domination.– Superiority and inferiority – indigenous – less power– Take over = more power

When the country pulls out…When the country pulls out…• Colonialist country pulls out = power vacuum

– Indigenous people fight for power– Resources

• Civil war – Power and Control split on Ethnic, Religious, Race– Ingredients for genocide

• Imperialism: The policy of extending a nation's authority by territorial acquisition or by the establishment of economic and political hegemony over other nations.

Rwanda

Dem. Rep. Congo (Zaire)

RwandaRwanda

• Belgium colony

• 2 Ethnic Groups Indigenous– Tutsis: minority 1/7 of population– Hutus: majority

• Tutsis Power – Belgium allows them to have power

• 1959 Hutus killed hundreds of thousands of Tutsis

Hutu PowerHutu Power

• An estimated 500,000 people died in the genocide

• Ethnic Cleansing: a campaign of forced expulsion, often involving beatings, rape, and murder, in order to clear an area of unwanted inhabitants.

The U.N. was in Rwanda the entire time.

Hotel Rwanda SynopsisHotel Rwanda SynopsisTen years ago some of the worst atrocities in the

history of mankind took place in the country of Rwanda--and in an era of high-speed communication and round the clock news, the events went almost unnoticed by the rest of the world. In only three months, one million people were brutally murdered. In the face of these unspeakable actions, inspired by his love for his family, an ordinary man summons extraordinary courage to save the lives of over a thousand helpless refugees, by granting them shelter in the hotel he manages.

- Written by Sujit R. Varma

Hotel RwandaHotel Rwanda

• Paul Rusesabagina (Don Cheadle)– Hotel Manager, Hutu– Owner’s of the Hôtel Des Milles Collines are

Belgium– Married a Tutsi

• U.N. Colonel Oliver (Nick Nolte)• General Bizimungu (Fana Mokoena)

– Hutu general– Paul bargains for protection

Hotel Rwanda ContinuedHotel Rwanda Continued

• George Rutaganda (Hakeem Kae-Kazim)– Hutu distributor– Paul gives him cigars, liquor Distributor

gives Paul food

• Tatiana Rusesabagina (Sophie Okonedo)– Paul’s wife– A Tutsi