According to different estimates, between 65,000 and 120,000 sub-Saharan Africans enter the Maghreb (Mauritania, Morocco, Tunisia, Algeria, and Libya) yearly, of which 70 to 80 percent are believed to migrate through Libya and 20 to 30 percent through Algeria and Morocco. Several tens of thousands (not hundreds of thousands, as media coverage might suggest) of sub-Saharan Africans try to cross the Mediterranean each year.
It created new jobs, expanded available farming land, and more
They are called Griots.
<span>A griot is "a member of a class of traveling poets, musicians, and storytellers who maintain a tradition of oral history in parts of West Africa."</span>
To create the visual illusion of depth on a flat surface, Renaissance painters used the technique called foreshortening which can make individuals look shorter or have shrunken proportions. For an example see the painting "The Lamentation of Christ" by Andrea Mantegna c.1480.
