The mysterious case of Africa

This presentation was a review of what know about Africa. This continent is occupied by a large extremely but extremely arid zone that is in the north part of the territory. This land is dry and each day more impossible for living because of the climate change.
Africa is suffering, is struggling and fighting against a lot of evils. Is a place where hunger is present, is the poorest place in all the world, with bad nutrition, they don't have enough clean water for drinking or bathing, has the problem of the blood diamonds, with an extreme climate, but with very dense jungles in the central and southern areas, and the world's largest combination of density and "range of freedom" of wild animal and diversity.

Diversity too when talking about more than 2000 ethnic groups live in Africa, each one with its own diverse culture and ideology. Africa has 54 sovereign states within the continent, therefore to generalize and try to come up with an universal answer or view of Africa is absurd and very difficult.

A continent that had a colonization history that in some ways at the end brought many problems and differences between towns and entire countries. So, the colonizers went there brought things they never had seen, as guns and then share the territories with such libertinism that they never thought about the problems that would exist then only because they had separated ethnic groups without taking a moment to study their culture and likes. Barely a territory that had learned to defend themselves and more of this people are prevent to the outside world, that's why the Central Committee that was gathered on September 1999, determined three big issues as a basical framework for the Reconstruction Program of Africa, it talks about:

1. The war and conflicts (governability, kids and women in armed conflict
2. Economical justice, that includes the mundialization and doubt (human rights and human dignity)
3. Spirituality and ethic values that dignify life

Other aspect that I really want to talk about and that will be my question, is about the HIV problem. The epidemic of this virus, has Africa as its favorite place to spread itself and it requires of a big economic and cleanness help to avoid that in the next 20 years, can exist 43 millions of new infected and that deaths reach in 2025, 80 millions of people.

The silent, slow and painful death produced by HIV is a new way of violence. Now days, the pandemic in Africa is the most terrible genocide though is silent. In a lot of communities are old people who are burying the young and the cultural consequences and physiologic are unknown.
And is sad to be conscious that death had became a normal experience that happens each day, without even thinking.

Plus, is known that in every country in the world corruption is present, in this continent is like a cancer, and in many societies of Africa, corruption and bribe are institutionalized and are accepted generally as a way to advance. And in this matter of HIV help, some cases about corruption are heard too, one was by the movie the Constant Gardener that showed Africa as an abandon zone and invisible for the rest of the world. The pharmaceutic industry, talking about big corporations, shows the reality that this continent live day by day where in many cases Africans are used as little rats of laboratory to prove if the medicines are good enough for the HIV or not and this people is not conscious of this, causing more deaths and even causing deformations in users body.

So who's managing this so they can stop trying on africans as if they were just animals?

References

• Martinez. E. & Restrepo. A.M. & Salazar. M. A. 2009. Presentation "Africa". Organization and Cultures Subject. Universidad EAFIT
• http://www.wcc-coe.org/wcc/africa/index-s.html
• The constant gardener. (2005) http://www.cineismo.com/criticas/jardinero-fiel-el.htm
• ¿Es solo ficción el jardinero fiel? (2007) http://www.eleconomista.es/empresas-finanzas/noticias/232385/06/07/Es-solo-ficcion-El-Jardinero-Fiel-Africa-pone-a-las-farmaceuticas-en-el-punto-de-mira.html
  

Images

• Breathless. Flickr. http://www.flickr.com/photos/colloidfarl/63643221/
• Stag Ficght. Flickr. http://www.flickr.com/photos/hvhe1/3281462823/
• Uk Film council. http://www.ukfilmcouncil.org.uk/media/image/r/j/Constant_Gardener_-_Premiere_1_1.jpg
• http://www.wbla.com/resources/movies/overall/img/ficha_the_constant_gardener.jpg