HISTORY
THE MUSLIM WORLD AND AFRICA
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Question
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Because of the desert climate, they were unable to produce many crops
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They were broken up by mountains and islands
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West Africa was a peninsula covered mostly by mountains
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West Africa was located in the mountains, making agriculture difficult
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Detailed explanation-1: -Climate events, which destroy crops and disrupt food transport, are disproportionately common in the region. One-third of the world’s droughts occur in sub-Saharan Africa, and Ethiopia and Kenya are enduring one of the worst in at least four decades .
Detailed explanation-2: -Africa has immense natural resources and yet it is industrially the most backward continent because of following reasons. *The continent Africa lack good institutions and schools and all people are not well educated and have not proper knowledge of natural resources utilization. *There is lack of human resources.
Detailed explanation-3: -Imported goods are even cheaper compared to home-made, making domestic products less competitive). Second, corruption, abuse of power, and inefficiency of competent authorities lead to ineffective resource management. Most of the revenues from the exploitation of resources (oil, coal, gold, etc.)