Sub Saharan Africa

Which of the following could be another title for this passage?

• Sub-Saharan Africa and Potential

• The Future of Sub-Saharan Africa

• Life Expectancy and Sub-Saharan Africa

• Africa Breakdown

• Poverty, Population and Politics in Sub-

  Saharan Africa

This paragraph is mostly about ----.

• regional differences in Africa and

  population growth forecasts

• the causes of instability in

  Sub-Saharan Africa and the steps

  being taken to resolve social and

  political issues

• the population growth, persistent poverty,

  and political instability that are occurring

  in Sub- Saharan Africa

• poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa and

  the situation and events that caused

  poverty ensure that it continues

• changes towards increasingly positive

  and stable democratic forms of

  government in Sub-Saharan Africa

The passage mentions each of the

following EXCEPT ----.

• in every single country in Sub-Saharan Africa

  there have been free and fair elections

• since the 1990’s Sub-Saharan Africa has

  changed quite dramatically in terms of the

  political landscape

• currently, there are many groups trying to

  achieve cooperation across borders in the

  hope of achieving more shared values

• in most countries in the region there have

  been elections with multiple candidates

  running for office

• joint organisations have been formed to try

  and promote conflict resolution

According to the passage, life expectancy ----.

• is at a basic universal level of approximately

  74 years globally

• in Sub-Saharan Africa is the same as the rest

  of Africa and even higher in some countries

• in Sub-Saharan Africa is slowly closing in on

  modern countries at 78 years life expectancy

• is a mere 54 years of age in Sub-Saharan

  Africa

• is a very low for men in Sub-Saharan Africa

  quite much higher for women

The only area in the world where

poverty has increased over the last 25

years is Sub-Saharan Africa.

• T

• F

Sub-Saharan Africa has the highest

population growth rate in the world.

• T

• F

It is estimated that by the end of this

century 50 percent of the world’s

population will live in Sub-Saharan

Africa.

• T

• F

The passage states that democratic

instability persists because ----.

• people in Sub-Saharan Africa are not used to

  a centralised form of government but are

  happy with tribes and warlords

• of the simple reason of money corrupting the

  political system and people not being able to

  access wealth

• a variety of very complex reasons, all of

  which come from foreign powers interfering in

  Sub-Saharan Africa

• most people leave the region and try to

  escape to Europe

• of a variety of reasons such as war,

  corruption, unstable institutions, and ethnic

  problems to name just a few issues

According to this paragraph, ----.

• the people of Sub-Saharan Africa are one of

  the world’s poorest places after India and

  South-East Asia

• Sub-Saharan Africa is the world’s poorest

  region with the number of poor people at 100

  million

• the rates of poverty have been decreasing

  since the 1990’s when new health policies

  were introduced

• in Sub-Saharan Africa the rates of per capita

  income and poverty are both decreasing due

  to political instability

• about 50 percent of the population live on less

  than five dollars a day

It can be inferred from the passage that

• there are multiple factor facing Sub-Saharan

  Africa and that they will only be solved with

  time, assistance, leadership and cultural

  sensitivity

• the challenges facing Sub-Saharan Africa can

  not be solved and that it may be best to forget

  the concept of democratic countries in that

  area

• the future of Sub-Saharan Africa will have to

  be fixed by outside forces and military groups

  taking over the countries

• eventually the countries in that region will

  band together to form a super state like the

  European Union

• if people are not extremely careful the entire

  region may be destroyed by disease and

  become a desert