by clairmont chung WHO'S YOUR GOD: A brief look at climate change, hurricanes and Africa's history The Corruption Index: naturally, The darker you are the more corrupt (C)Transparency International It is not true that hurricanes begin off the coast of West Africa. Hurricanes begin deep in the landmass of Africa itself. We are talking about those tropical cyclones that sweep through and destroy the things and sometimes the lives of people in the Caribbean and the eastern coasts of the Americas; mainly Central and North America. The temperature differences in two streams of overland winds create energy when they collide near the West African coast after their journey across North Africa, the Sahel, and to Guinea. When they hit the Atlantic they are already locked in a whirling dance, transformed, in full communion. These conditions do not disappear and reappear; they are always present and at work like gods. It is only when the annual conditions are righ...