CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1 Background of the Study Poverty has been the hardest challenge facing human life from time immemorial. It has contributed to low social-economic states in society and has brought absent difficult circumstances 1:hat face learners today. It has negatively affected all people regardless of age, culture, race, religion, and other factors. An overview of some facts about poverty in the world of . Africa the black Americans suffered untold miseries ranging from diseases, poverty, denial of education, forced labor and denial of other essential services due to racial segregation by the white colonialist. This has lowered the social-economic position. In America, black Americans as a result of racial discrimination by whites were reduced to beggars who languished in poverty by being denied some of the important resources. This has negatively led to poor social economic situation in America. was not spared either, the law social economic level may have originated from the negative factors tllat resulted from colonization which the Britisll colonialist set foot in in the 19th century. Some changes were negative and others were positive. Some of the negative changes that the British colonialists brought were the issue of formal education, where the Africans were denied and later they were given basic education to enable them concentrate on agriculture. The whites were trained for white collar jobs. suffered many abuses which included displacement from their farms, forced labour, slavery, draconian rule, beating and were dis-united by these British colonialists.
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