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Population development in countries with the highest population growth rate Abstract The bachelor thesis focuses on the population development of the countries with the highest population growth rate in the period 1990-2020. The thesis aims to evaluate the population development of the countries with the highest population growth rate. For the selection of countries, an indicator of the crude rate of natural change of population is used, which excludes the influence of migration on population growth. One of the main goals of the work is, based on research, to find the factors that influence the population growth rate, and then evaluate the influence of these factors on selected countries. For the purpose of this work, the states of Mali and Niger were chosen, which rank among the countries with the highest population growth rate. The analytical part is based on data from the United Nations and the Demographic and Health Surveys. The results of this work confirm the third phase of the demographic transition in Mali and Niger, thus confirming the continuation of the reduction of fertility in these countries. According to the analysis of factors affecting total fertility rate, significant differences in the education and wealth of families were found, which were significantly reflected in the demographic...

This bachelor's thesis examines the factors influencing the distribution of COVID-19 vaccines to African countries. The research builds on current literature on the economic and other penetration of states into Africa. Specifically, the thesis examines the penetration of China, Russia, the United States of America, and European Union member states along with the United Kingdom. The broader aim of the thesis is to provide insight into the motivations of vaccine-providing states. In other words, whether vaccines are being used as a geopolitical tool to gain influence. This is an exploratory-quantitative study using statistical analysis, specifically OLS regressions. The research was carried out using a multivariate regression method, with each model created by repeating a simple regression. In total were created five models with five independent variables. The independent variables are GDP per capita, imports, exports, democracy index score and presence of diplomatic missions. The operationalization produced five dependent variables representing a total of seven types of vaccines. Only the variables for the democratic index score and GDP per capita showed a significant effect on vaccine supply, but they can only explain the variability in vaccine supply for Oxford-AstraZeneca, Moderna, Johnson &...

Most countries in sub-Saharan Africa lack the capacity to produce arms and military equipment, so they are fully dependent on arms imports. At the same time, the arms trade has a strong political dimension, which is a huge volume beyond the financial trade itself. The aim of this work is to provide a descriptive analysis of the armament of sub-Saharan Africa between 2011 and 2020. This work uses data to define the largest exporters and importers in the region over a period of time and examines the effects of various variables on arms imports and exports to sub-Saharan Africa. Data for analysis were collected from a publicly available databank such as The World Databank or SIPRI. R studio with the assistance of ggplot2 and tidyverse packages was used to analyze and process all data. Thanks to this analysis, we found that, contrary to previously stated hypotheses, Chinese arms imports to sub-Saharan Africa are no longer growing than Russia, and Russia is still the largest arms exporter to the region. Some data suggest that there are correlations between arms imports into the region and war conflicts, which cause the two variables to interact.

This diploma thesis deals with integrated teaching, its application both in our country and abroad and with its possible uses when teaching Geography and Natural History. The aim of the thesis was to create teaching activities connecting those two subjects with biogeographical content. Three teaching activities focusing on distribution of organisms in the area of Africa, Australia and Oceania and America had been created in total. Two of the activities had been designed to incorporate another subjects, namely Art and Czech Language. A conception of teaching of biomes and biogeography and a suggested arrangement of educational content in Geography and Natural History at second stages of elementary schools are also included in the thesis.

The main topic of this thesis is the use of development cooperation as an instrument of foreign policy of the People's Republic of China (China) and the European Union (EU) in Africa. The aim of this diploma thesis was to find out whether the development cooperation policy of China, respectively the EU with African countries, is motivated rather by pragmatic or normative interests. In order to answer this research question, a qualitative content analysis was applied, in which the documents of these two actors were examined. The main theoretical concept of this diploma thesis is the concept of normative power, which served as an indicator of normative interests. In the case of the EU, the hypothesis that the EU would primarily act as a normative power in development cooperation, i.e. that it would be interested in disseminating its norms in the international system, has not been confirmed. The results of the content analysis reveal that pragmatic interests prevail in the development cooperation between the EU and African countries. In the case of China's involvement in development cooperation, the results of the analysis reveal that the main motivations within this policy are mainly normative interests, i.e. the interests of disseminating its norms in the international politics.

This Bachelor thesis deals with the analysis and comparison of the causes, processes and consequences of the decolonization of former French and British Colonies in West Africa, namely Senegal and Ghana. The work is based on an examination of the hypothesis: "Different systems of colonial administration and their consequences have differently influenced the character of the decolonization process and postcolonial relations between the former colonies and their rulers ". The focal point of the research are factors emanating directly from the colonies, such as the system of colonial administration, the system of colonial education, indigenous elites, and political mobilization. As part of the approach to the theoretical level, the work is based on the concepts of colonialism, decolonization and neocolonialism. It is neo- colonialism that is related to a subsequent research question, which seeks to examine the presence and extent of neo-colonialism in these African countries during the first ten years of independence. The results of the research point to significant differences in the colonial administration, which have implications for the type and behavior of indigenous elites and thus political mobilization and different approaches of political leaders to the process of decolonization. In the...

Bachelor thesis "Comparation of French military interventions in Mali and Central African Republic" will examine problematics of French military interventions in Africa specifically in countries of the formal French colonial empire. Rational choice theory has been chosen as a theoretical base for explanation of French actions. First of all this thesis will describe deeper historical context and current French involvement in particular region. Later on the theory for explanation of contemporary French actions will be presented and it will include definition of main political, economic, social and security motives that can be universally applicable on French presence in the region. This theory will be tested on two recent cases of military interventions. Mali and Central African Republic will be two cases of comparation. In main part of this thesis French military interventions in these states and their comparation will be described. In each case of intervention their course of conflict, form of French intervention, major motives and international reception will be covered. Main objective of this comparation is an overall collation of specific motives of France for operation in these countries while it will focus on strategic, political and economic motives. Military comparation will be included as...

The diploma thesis deals with the creation of multimedia aid with a focus on regional geography of Africa which is useful especially in geography lessons at the lower secondary school. The introductory chapter about the goals of the thesis is followed by a theoretical part of the thesis which deals with multimedia in general and their position in teaching and regional geography. In the case of regional geography its meaning is solved together with the principles of its teaching. The following pages deal with many kinds of publications that try to describe a wide range of topics about the entire African continent. After the methodological chapter which describes the process of creating individual multimedia elements of the aid and the multimedia aid as a whole there is a chapter about the multimedia aid itself. Except the description of the aid, which is available from www.sites.google.com/view/rg-afrika there is a description of several selected multimedia elements (illustrations, graphs, maps, videos and tasks for students) with their specific usage. In general, the usage of the aid is primarily in better representation of the curriculum and possible improvement of teaching. An important chapter is also testing of the multimedia aid in practice. It describes how the aid was tested directly in the classroom with students and how they reacted to individual multimedia elements.

Factors of education in Africa and their regional differentiation Abstract Education is one of the primary driving forces of development and its importance in the poor countries is undoubtable. The aim of the diploma thesis is to identify the most significant factors affecting education in African states and to analyse them by using of the additional sources and data. The theoretical part points out the complexity in the education and introduces selected approaches in the education studies. The empirical part consists of the research of summary reports by UNDP (MDGs) and UNESCO (EFA) for countries with available reports in English; and analysis of particular factors connected of discussion with another scientific publications. These factors were classified on the basis of literature, to macro and micro factors first, subsequently according to the meaning. The most mentioned factors in the summary reports were school factors (school expenditures, teacher quality), political and economic factors (poverty) or sociocultural factors (women status). According to the conducted research it is obvious that the complex perspective of this issue and including as much factors as possible is essential. The variation coefficient was set for the possibility to find regional differentiation for particular groups of people...

Africa is a heterogeneous environment that is affected by natural and anthropogenic processes. This thesis uses a review method to characterize the natural environment of the continent, present possible classifications of natural conditions and to describe the transformation of this environment. The main methodological aim of the thesis was to determine areas threatened by biodiversity loss due to anthropogenic pressures based on a new classification of the natural environment on a continental level. This was executed by methods of environmental stratification and subsequent environmental classification. Thus, this thesis presents a classification of the natural environment on the basis of homogenous units determined by bioclimatic variables and terrain, which are subsequently related to the biodiversity of birds, amphibians and mammals and to an anthropogenic influence represented by anthropogenic biomes. Finally, the share of protected areas is executed in relation to this anthropogenic transformation of the natural environment. Therefore, the thesis is quite a unique approach, as it takes into account a combination of both physical and socio-economic factors at a continental level. The final output consists of a map of the anthropogenic transformation of Africa's natural environment in the...

This bachelor thesis focuses on personal air transport in the Africa continent. In the first part, the general characteristics of air transport, its importance in the world and changes in its development, will be described. The description of the current situation of air transport follows. This part of the thesis tries to explain the causes of the peripheral position within its global distribution. The analytic part of the thesis deals with the flight offers in ten African airports on a specific day in 2006 and 2018. These airports were chosen on the grounds of several factors, e.g. the size according to the volume of transported passengers per year. The data for the implementation of this analysis were taken from the Flightstats database. This database provides information about almost every flight in the world. The results of the analysis provide a view on development and the current situation of domestic, continental and intercontinental air transport in Africa or rather of the airports which are for the African continent crucial.

Bachelor thesis elaborates the theme of Chinese foreign direct investment flowing into African developing countries and democracy rates in those countries as a determining factor for these investments. The thesis is divided into two major parts and that is theoretical and empirical part. Theoretical part consist of literature review of authors who already addressed this topic and summarizes their findings. Empirical part examines correlation between Chinese capital and level of democracy in African countries. The result will be examined in case studies to analyze the context of this problematics. The conclus summarizes the findings and implicates them for other countries in Africa.

Maintaining the peace and security by regional arrangements in Africa (focusing on peace-keeping operations) Abstract The present thesis focuses on the issue of peace-keeping operations maintained by the regional and sub-regional organizations in Africa, namely African Union and ECOWAS. The main statement of the thesis is the following: The United Nations is unable to react effectively to threats to international peace and security, especially in cases of mass violations of human rights in intrastate conflicts, that have severe impact on particular region including refugee crisis or spreading the conflict to other states of the region. In the thesis, particular instruments of the above-mentioned international organizations, that create the framework for operations for maintaining peace and security in the region, are described. Attention is also paid to the relevant bodies of the African union and ECOWAS such as Peace and security council of the AU or African standby force. The thesis elaborates on problematic or controversial issues from international law perspective. In the first place, the concept of humanitarian intervention and related concept of responsibility to protect is underlined. It is demonstrated that African Union and ECOWAS have significant contribution to these concepts when implementing...

This diploma thesis deals with mediation as an instrument for ethnic conflict resolution in Africa. The author determined the feasibility and effectiveness of mediation as a tool for solving the ethnic conflict in Africa as the research topic of this thesis. The aim of the diploma thesis is to provide an evaluation of the current international legal regulation of mediation, of its sufficiency and integrity. Furthermore, the author aims to provide a comprehensive and complex view of the use of mediation in ethnic conflict resolution in Africa through an interdisciplinary analysis of the academic literature, both from Czech and foreign sources. The author sees her personal contribution by writing this thesis in the fact that in the Czech Republic the issue of mediation as a tool for ethnic conflict resolution has not been systematically researched yet. This diploma thesis is divided into four chapters, which are further subdivided into subchapters. The introductory chapter of this thesis describes a theoretical introduction to the issue of ethnicity and its legal regulation. Furthermore, the author deals with the origins of ethnic conflicts. The second chapter deals with the legal framework for international settlement of conflicts. This chapter also discusses in detail the various possible ways of...

Foreign policy of Czechoslovakia in 70's and 80's depended completely on the policy of the Soviet union and its promoted ideology. The Czechoslovak socialist republic preserved the narrowest relationship with the Soviet union and its sattelite states in Eastern Europe, while the relationship with the western countries oriented to co-operation with the United states, was very cold and was beeing restored very slowly and gradually. The developing countries, especially those heading to a socialist establishment, had a special position in Czechoslovak foreign policy. Especially these countries benefited from Czechoslovak aid such as financial, military or material support. Another way Czechoslovakia implemented its development aid was offering scholarships for university students. The purpose of this form of aid was to contribute to the progress of developing countries, most of whom gained independence recently. Simultaneously the policy pursued another aim - to spread the socialist ideology and the influlence of the Soviet union around the world. Hundreds of foreign students studied in Czechoslovak universities every year during 70's and 80's. Most of them came from so called developing countries. Foreign students came from various countries of the world, various cultures and therefore they perceived...

Tato publikace byla vydána díky finanční podpoře v rámci projektu Studentská vědecká konference, č. SVK1-2015-013. Asia and Africa represent a vast territory which in course of their long historical development displays an astonishing range of local cultures and traditions. The individual cultures were often linked together and their interaction could have many forms. The civilizations that flourished in various regions of Asia and Africa during the long historical development of that territory exhibit a wide range of cultural traditions that are evident in various types of sources: in texts of economic, administrative, literary, religious and scientific nature as well as in three-dimensional objects such as tools, utensils or works of art. Ancient Asian and African civilizations have been a traditional object of the scientific research which enabled the specialists to outline the main features of individual local cultures as well as to compare cultural traditions of Asian and African countries with those of other regions of the world. The present developments that heavily influence not only the Asian and African countries today, but have also an impact on the future of this territory root firmly in the local cultural traditions that are often traceable in the distant past. Therefore, the detailed and complex study of the history of ancient Asian and African civilizations within the context of their contacts to other cultural areas can contribute greatly to a better understanding ot the modern history of Asian and African countries. The monograph Vybrané aspekty kulturního vývoje Asie a Afriky [Selected Aspects of the Cultural Development of Asia and Africa] presents the results of 15 specific projects of scholars who are studying various aspects of the development of the material and intellectual culture of Asia and Africa during the long time span reaching from the Antiquity until modern times. Members of the team represent several scientific institutions from the Czech Republic as well as from Slovakia. Among scholars who participated in the research projects, we find historians, archaeologists, linguists, and other specialists. The book is divided into three chapters devoted to following subjects: 1. Religion and languages 2. Politics and history 3. Contacts between West and East. We hope that this book will be useful for those who are interested in the historical development and the rich cultural heritage of Asian and African countries.

The bachelor thesis "Věra Šťovíčková-Heroldová, africká zpravodajka" deals with a life of a reporter Šťovíčková emphasising a decade she spent in Africa. The introductory part outlines a sociohistorical context of the period in which the reporter lived, specifically the time span of 1930 to 2015. The fundamental method of elaborating this text was the research of the oral history, and thus personal interviews made with acquaintances of Šťovíčková. Other valuable sources of findings were reports Šťovíčková made during her stay in Africa and interviews with her. Materials containing these records can be obtained from the archive of Czech (formerly Czechoslovak) Radio broadcasting service. The thematic parts follow on each other and chronologically describe the reporter's life. The main text uncovers the family environment, the early activity in the Czechoslovak Radio and the first travel across the border to Poland. An essential part of this text discusses the 1960s in Africa and the period when states were gaining independence. The significant milestone of her life was 1968. She actively participated in the broadcasting of ČsRo, to which is devoted also a part of this text followed by an explanation for reasons why she left Radio. The next chapter deals with the period when Šťovíčková was banned...

The paper examines the impact of slowed economic growth on the World Bank's priorities in the energy sector. As sub-Saharan Africa is a critical area for the sector, the work will explore the development of the World Bank's approaches and policies for energy in this part of the world. The first chapter deals with the World Bank Group and the economic conditions in which the World Bank must carry out its mission. The second chapter identifies the World Bank's priorities in the electricity sector in Africa in the transformation of economic conditions.

This thesis analyzes the business environment of Nigeria with a focus on political, economic, social, technological and legal factors. These factors have a big impact on entrepreneurs, therefore they play an important role in deciding entrepreneurs whether to enter the market or not. First, it is defined a theoretical background for understanding the issue. The following section deals with the analysis of the business environment with a view to possible risks and threats. In the conclusion was analyzed a mutual business cooperation between the Czech Republic and Nigeria and the current state of relations.

The thesis deals with development cooperation in post-conflict reconstruction. The comparative case study analyzes the specific involvement of the international community in the post-war reconstruction of Rwanda and Burundi with emphasis on two main areas, political/constitutional, and socio-economic. Based on the findings of the analysis, possible measures are suggested to make development cooperation in post-conflict reconstruction more effective, especially in the case of Burundi. The results of the analysis show that the international community should in case of these two countries, among other things, mostly focus on securing political stability, supporting civil society, or building infrastructure, and thus help to achieve the goals of post-conflict reconstruction.

Current status HIV Virus - Human Immune Deficiency Virus (which means a virus that causes a loss of immunity in humans) is the cause of AIDS disease, an abbreviation of the English name Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, which expresses the nature of the disease. This disease was first recognized in the US in 1981. Currently, there are no medications able to remove the virus from the body. The HIV virus is most often transmitted through sexual intercourse, blood and breast milk. The treatment of HIV-positive patients has its specific characteristics that minimize the risk of transmission of infection to healthcare workers. The objective and Research Questions The object of this bachelor thesis was to find out how nurses take care about HIV positive patients in Czech Republic and how nurses take care of these patients in Namibia. The following research questions have been identified for these objectives. What is the difference between a HIV-positive patient at a specialized workplace and in normal departments? How do nurses progress on urgent incomes while treating an HIV-positive patinet? How nurses follow barrier nursing care when touching an HIV positive patient? How do they treat HIV-positive patient at the České Budějovice Hospital? How do they treat HIV-positive patient in Namibia? Methods The research part of this bachelor thesis was elaborated by the method of qualitative research. The data collection was performed by a deep-structured interview technique. The interview was attended by ten nurses, five from Czech Republic and five from Namibia. Results Research has shown that nurses in Namibia, where HIV and AIDS are far more widespread, but also in the Czech Republic, have very good theoretical and practical skills. The main difference is that Namibian nurses have much more experience with HIV-positive patients. Some departments have a registry of HIV-positive clients, which, for example, is missing in the hospital in České Budějovice. Namibian nurses' answers show that they would not panic in case of contact with infected biological material. On the otherside, some Czech nurses admit that in that case they could panic. However, Czech and Namibian nurses have demonstrated the same, high level of knowledge and ability in interview

The bachelor thesis entails the changes that Portugal has gone through from the beginning of the sixties in regard to the war that had broken out within the Portuguese colonies. Moreover, the work compares the new decade with the period from the end of the fifties. Main focus is given to the situation of the regime called "New State", once the war started and the socioeconomic changes the sixties have experienced. Colonial War provided a chance for the authoritarian prime minister Salazar to unify the attitude of the society and strengthen propaganda by changing the current colonial politics. Salazarism was obsolete and non-progressive and therefore unwanted before the war, but at a later time again gained a numerous base of supporters. It was triggered by a new wave of propaganda, together with Salazar's reforms. Portugal also noticed a change in the sixties within the field of international politics. While the associated countries including traditional allies of Portugal such as The Great Britain or United States opposed the colonial politics in the fifties, the relations got better again in the sixties. On the other hand, international organizations including the United Nations which Portugal was a member of literally condemned imperialism. The goal of this thesis is to explain the status quo in...

Eastern part of the African Sahel, connecting sub-Saharan Africa with North and East Africa, play an important role as a bidirectional corridor for vertically and horizontally migrations of populations. It is the strategic region to study human genetic diversity due to the presence of ethnically, linguistically, culturally and geographically diversity. This work is focused on the analysis of HVS-I and HVS-II segments of mtDNA. The work provides new information about genetic structure and migration activity of this region by analysis twelve populations belonging to three African linguistic families and different subsistent strategies. Analysis of mtDNA revealed the higher diversity of the populations of east Sudan and Horn of Africa, which is connected with the spreading of populations along the Nile River. It seems, that in this region linguistic factors have bigger impact on genetic diversity then the geografic ones. The opposite situation is observed in populations of Chad, where populations with similiar geografic location and different linguistic affilation revealed low genetic differentiation. The intra-population analysis shows the significant influence of genetic drift on the pastoralists living on the Red Sea Coast - Beja and Rashaida. In Beja is probably due to decrease of size of...

This diploma thesis is going to focus on a comparison of a traditional knight´s short story and an early modern folk reading of the Chronicles of "Štifríd" and "Bruncvík"; the focus will be primarily on differences of the two texts. Narratives in Czech literature were repeatedly used in different time periods and in texts of various genres: from the allegorical knight's short story in the end of the 14th century to the early modern funny book of folk reading or even e.g. a folclore fairytale in the 19th century. The starting point for the work will be, therefore, an introduction of the interpretation attempts aimed at the filliation of handwritten and printed editions of the two narratives (Jaroslav Kolár's study), then an actual composition of the work (Hana Mirvaldová - Šmahelová's study) and also an allegorical presentation (Jaroslav Kolár's story). The main part of the thesis is an analysis of the handwritten releases from the turn of the 14th and 15th century and the printed edition from the 18th century, and their mutual comparison.

The aim of this theses is to evaluate the EU's Eastern Partnership and to make conclusions from the possibility of cooperation with the countries of Africa. The Theses answers the question, how to deal with immigration from Africa in the place of origin. Investigated area includes Eastern Partnership and the problems of Africa due to historical factors. The findings indicate, that although the beginning of approach to the Eastern Partnership of the EU was not suitable, in the final consequence it lead to improvement and benefit from the partnership, for both parties. Historical reasons for African problems are slavery, colonialism and totalitarian regimes after independence. The Eastern Partnership is based on principles, that are currently in needed to correct in African countries. The Theses suggests that the potential partnership would help improve the situation of African countries.

This thesis focuses on fairytales from exotic countries (and continents), specifically African, American, Australian, Japanese, Chinese, Indian and Inuit. Selected fairytales are introduced, analyzed and compared between each other. This work also focuses on finding similarities between these exotic fairytales and Czech fairytale background. General theoretical information about fairytales can also be found in the first part of this work. One of the goals of this thesis is also to get acquainted with new sources. The empirical part of this work examins the knowledge of sixth grade basic school pupils of international fairytales. Part of this research is also a survey about Czech language teachers from selected schools, focusing specifically on finding out practical use of fairytales during school lessons.

The diverse region of southern Africa is affected by several changes of the natural environment. This thesis characterizes the region of southern Africa and evaluates the state and development of these natural conditions and environmental problems in four main categories of physical geography - climate, vegetation, soils and water. A literature review is compiled and processed focusing on studies by field experts, which describe the main issues in these categories. Particular problems which the region encounters are described on a global, regional and local scale. The main problems are: changes in temperature and precipitation, land cover change, deforestation, desertification, threats to biodiversity, soil erosion and water availability. Overall, changes of the natural environment in southern Africa are caused by climate change and anthropogenic activity. However, human activities cause a greater impact as a result of their "indirect influence" on climate conditions and "direct influence" on vegetation conditions. Key words: Africa, southern Africa, natural environment, climate, vegetation, soils, water

Phytoliths are mostly formed by groundwater silica carried upwards in a plant's vascular system and consequently accumulated in different parts of the plant. After the plant's death, the phytoliths shaped in specific morphotypes are released into the soil. Phytolith assemblages found in the soil can therefore provide information on the previous vegetation cover. The use of phytoliths as a paleoecological tool is based on their high stability in a broad spectrum of environments, even in arid conditions which are usually not suitable for preservation of pollen grains and plant macro-remains. Analysis of surface phytolith assemblages linked to the parallel study of modern vegetation is offering a good opportunity to refine our knowledge of paleoecosystems of NE Africa by evaluating the interpretation value of the fossil data. Modern phytolith assemblages are usually interpreted by using their phytolith ratio to estimate the density of tree cover, the aridity, and the proportion of C3 and C4 grasses (Barboni et al. 1999). Here we show a comparison of soil phytolith assemblages on a 400 km long climatic gradient reaching from semidesert to short grass savanna. And we also show local variability in phytolith assamblages at one of localities in comparision with grass reference collection. This master...

The objective of this bachelor's thesis is to briefly introduce to reader the language situation in Angola. Main topics are historical-sociological development of portuguese language and local languages, their position in this area and situation of portuguese in the present day. For this chosen objective I utilized available angolan specialist literature and articles that were occupying similar topic. To explore this theme I took advantage of my direct linkage to Angola. Creating this thesis I had achieved to make a complete summary of language situation in Angola, which can serve to readers who would like to gain a idea how took place a development of colonial language in colony and in the same time of development of local languages in concrete african country. Similar development scheme took place in majority of african countries. Contribution of this work is mainly in creating a bachelor thesis about chosen topic in czech language with usage of my direct contacts to Angola.

David Livingstone is considered one of the greatest travellers of the 19th century. His travels changed the perception of the African continent and its people in Western countries. Thanks to journeys motivated by founding of mission stations, the spread of God's Word and the suppression of the slave trade carried out in the years 1849-1873, he made a series of important discoveries. During the first surveys in areas of southern and eastern Africa in 1849 and 1856, he discovered Lake Ngami, Victoria Falls, made transcontinental travel across Africa and explored the great Zambezi River. He established a friendship with the tribal chiefs, win them over his sermons and for their expeditions. Earlier during the trips, David Livingstone became well-known at homeland and abroad. After return from Africa in 1856, his popularity spread through book of travels Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa. In 1858 he was appointed to head of a governmental expedition to East and Central Africa towards the Zambezi River. The aim of the Expedition was to examine the navigability of the river and surrounding countryside. During this expedition it came out that the river due to natural conditions cannot be used. After many difficulties, the expedition was withdrawn. Though the expedition officially failed,...

This bachelor's thesis focus on influence of air transport on African region economics. Aviation safety analysis is included. The work describes economic elements influenced by aviation. Influence of liberalization in aviation sector is included. Thesis also describe different methods and approaches to the topic of aviation safety. Work contains state of aviation safety in Africa and analysis of chosen amount of aviation accidents in region.

The Bachelor thesis "The International Development Cooperation of the Czech Republic in Africa" discusses the historical progress of relations between Czechoslovakia/Czech Republic and African states since the 3rd decade of the 20st century in the context of the international development cooperation. Step by step it analyzes the conceptualization of Czechoslovakian and Czech foreign policy and the creation of fundamental development documents. Special emphasis is placed on current relations with selected African states and the evaluation of the mutual Development Cooperation in supported sectors within the frame of Development Cooperation Strategy of the Czech Republic 2010 - 2017.

The work deals with development aid. Diploma thesis is focused on development, development aid, then the thesis is focused on the performance of the different actors of development aid and ways to help in the past and today. The diploma thesis describes the MDGs, examples of potential obstacles to development assistance, also it describes development assistance offered by the Czech Republic. Finally, thesis focuses on the development assistance in education, which is actually the more specific goal of this work. The work describes a Zambia circumstances and non-profit organization Njovu, which operates its projects in the poorest parts of Lusaka. Another goals of the work describe the personal experience of Zambia - from the position of a woman who three months taught children English, led the afternoon activities etc. KEYWORDS Africa, development aid, development cooperation, the Millennium Development Goals (MDG's), education in Zambia, a non-profit organization, Njovu

This thesis studies the identification and analysis of the impact of the latest economic crisis of 2008 on selected countries of the world with the purpose of identifying the relevance of channels through which the financial and economic crisis has spread to these countries. The thesis focuses on two regions of the world: Africa and Latin America. In both of these regions two countries are chosen to be analyzed more closely. These are Nigeria and Malawi for Africa, Brazil for South America and Belize for Central America. The possible channels of transmission of the crisis were identified to be private capital flows, international trade and commodity prices, remittances and international aid. In the analysis of the chosen countries, it was identified that the most important channels were international trade, commodity prices and capital flows. On the other hand the least impactful channels were remittances and international aid. These were rather stable during the crisis and in the case of aid even played a countercyclical role.

This master´s thesis studies the topic of the economic diplomacy of China and India in Africa. The aim of the thesis is to determine the differences between India´s and China´s economic diplomacy and in their approaches to Africa. First, the official relations with Africa are compared. Thus the thesis examines the goals and instruments of Indian and Chinese economic diplomacy and the institutional framework of the relations with Africa. Second, the thesis seeks to identify the differences and similarities in China´s and India´s motives for their engagement in Africa and also in consequences of their activities.

The aim of this thesis is to summarize up to date findings concerning globalization of Africa, its effects on the continent, real problem solutions, as well as possible recommendations which could attribute to the acceleration of economic growth. Is this impact positive or negative? The initial chapter partially aims to characterize globalization as such, its basic spheres and manifestations that were used to record the impact of this phenomenon. In the following chapter, a summary of positive as well as negative consequences for the African continent, which were induced by globalization, is given. The third chapter focuses on the airline network and its characterization as a potential measure of globalization in African cities. The advantages resulting from this evaluation of city globalization are also stated. Subsequently, possible recommendation thanks to which Africa could get the best out of globalization, are mentioned. The end of the chapter is devoted to international aid.