WELCOME TO A LEST INDUSTRIALIZED COUNTRY Where beauty and poverty mix.
BURKINA FASO (French West Africa)
Burkina Faso: Fast Facts
Location: West Africa Language: French, Möre, Dioula, & Fulfuldé Education: Literacy 30% Demographics: 63 ethnic groups primarily Mossi Economy: GDP Per Capita $1,200 in 2009
CAMBODIA
Most Cambodians consider themselves to be Khmers, descendants of the Angkor Empire that extended over much of Southeast Asia and reached its zenith between the 10th and 13th centuries.
GDP: $2,000 (2009 est.)
JAMAICA What you don’t see on Vacation. Per capita GDP (2009): $4,500.
Exports
$555.8 million (2012 est.)
Export goods
Sugar, bananas, citrus, clothing, fish products, molasses, wood, crude oil
Public debt
$1.457 billion
BELIZE
What you don’t see diving at the Blue Hole Per capita GDP (2012) $8,400
THEME: AFFECTS OF COLONIALISM.
Burkina Faso gained independence from France in 1964
Cambodia gained independence from France in 1953
Jamaica gained independence from Britain in 1944
Belize gained full independence from Britain in 1981
There are significant differences in countries that the British ruled and the French ruled. (the French were much more aggressive). For comparison, Haiti was a French Colony, Jamaica was British.