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Micah Walker Pd. 9/10 Mr. McFadden Troubled Africa Ever since the country of Africa has come across a valuable resource, the control of it has always strayed into the wrong hands. This is true with ivory, oil, diamonds, and many other resources. One may not believe that a country’s economy would affect it on a national scale but it is true. Some of these resources have affected specific countries more than others, but each of these resources has caused death and hardship in many countries on both humans and animals. Many know full well that Africa is home to some of the weakest and poverty stricken countries in the world and these battles over valuable resources have contributed much to this fact. Many countries house these fiendish attributes which include bloodthirsty diamond dealers which have coined the word “blood diamonds”. Across Africa’s savannas poachers can be found killing and butchering hundreds of elephants merely for their valuable ivory tusks. The rest of their bodies are left to rot. Many African tribes have suffered by the fact that their fellow tribesmen have been killed in the struggle to protect these animals. Farther south, a resource sought by the entire world is found in the shape of black gold. This black gold, also known as raw oil, has been the root of many disasters over the course of history. It has been behind the economic hardships in the United States and the fighting in the Middle East, but it has not hit harder than in Africa and more specifically, the Congo.

Thesis: The mismanagement of valuable resources found in Africa have negatively impacted its countries by creating horrible working conditions and causing bloody crimes.