When people think of a famine, many people think about, bad weather, poor soil, or even lack of water. But what was different from any regular famine and Africa's famine is that it was a direct result of man-made disasters. One of the reasons for the African famines may be the lack of communication in some areas. Some cities and villages do not have the means of communication that some of the more prosperous countries enjoy. They do not have telephones and they don't always have post offices and many of the people in Africa live in small villages outside of cities. Another reason why the famine can be considered a man-made disaster is the lack of capital in parts of Africa. Countries in Africa just cannot support their own economy and they don't want to ask for help because th

The African famine was built up over a long period of time that all started with colonization. But all of the causes tend to point in the direction of education. If African nations would have been better educated they would have been able to make better decisions. There is no doubt that the African famines were man made, instead of environmental factors as so many people may think. It always seemed as if the African nations could not do anything right, and they were always making the wrong moves.

The giving of aid can be categorized as purely political. Take the U.S. for instance; it helped the nations of Africa that were politically friendly to the U.S. There has never been a time were the U.S. has helped a communist nation because they are not friendly politically to the U.S. Aid can be used as a weapon against nations that have gone into a famine that we help. We can then play a major role in what happens politically within that nation. Also the distribution of food can be unfair too. The people that live within the cities will get a majority of the food and first pick, compared to the province people who receive minimal amounts of food. All starving people are not all equal; you must be a politically positive government to receive any kind of aid at all.

One by one as the people of the suffering nations came forward with their pleas for help, relief agencies set up in these countries. Sending and providing food to a nation always seems like it is helping from the outside, but inside it may actually be harming the country more. This was the job of strong countries such as the U.S. to provide aid to where it is best needed. When a country becomes too reliant on the support of another country, the country receiving the aid might start to depend on the relief. This was the case in the African famines, the countries receiving aid did not continue to try do things themselves or improve their ways. One of the problems with the relief agencies is that they are looking only at the short-term picture, instead of the long-term. This caused the African nations to continue to be in a longer famine than they should have. Countries are not willing to risk lots of money to help nations for the long-term. If

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