I found an article recently that I thought tied into what we were talking about in class. The article covered world events dealing with religious and terrorist's issues. This is of importance, because we had discussed universalizing religions such as Christianity. In this article it deals with the displeasure of a group of Muslims in Somalia, and how they acted out and killed a nun in response to the comments made by the pope. I found this interesting, because I was just reading about these two religions in our text book and how "they have common historical and theological roots in the Hebrew prophets and leaders"(Globalization and Diversity). I was really able to relate what we were doing in class to the actual world and I thought that it was kind of cool.
Farther into the article it then goes into detail about how the leader of the Lord's Resistance Army in Uganda has finally agreed to meet and try and work out some truce with the Acholi people of Sudan. The Lord's Resistance Army are actually formed from the Acholi people and are led by Joseph Kony. He decided that it was his mission from God to cleanse the Acholi people. I really had an interest in this section of the article because we mentioned tensions in countries between certain military and micronationalistic groups today in class. We also mentioned the Rwandan Genocide today in class, and I found this situation in Uganda extremely similar. It has been global ignored, and it has caused the deaths of many lives of a certain ethnic group that was deemed unpure.
This article then went and covered the drug resistant strand of tuberculosis that is now a large problem in South Africa. This is a large problem because there are so many HIV-positive people who are now at risk. I thought that this was a good example of a less-developed country, even though South Africa is one of Africa's richest and well developed country. When it is compared to the rest of the world its medical care and aid for its citizens is just not quite as good as that of more-developed countries.
I found this article really interesting, and even though it jumped around a lot I still really enjoyed reading it. I really liked that I was able to take elements out of our class period and actually use them in the real world. If anyone has an opinion on this blog, or the article please feel free to comment.
Ugandans LRA rebels
African Problems
posted by Anonymous @ 9/18/2006 09:02:00 PM
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