Africa Flashcards

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4 generations

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  • 1st: independence
  • 2nd: chaos/ corruption
  • 3rd: stabilizer
  • 4th: create prosperity, institutions, universities
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Issues of Tunisia

Solutions of Tunisia

Groups protesting it

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  • Lack of political parties
  • Restoration of country’s constitution
  • spiraled toward capital from neglected rural areas
  • need to grapple with class divisions
  • Tunisia leadership must incorporate a generation of young people
  • angry youth
  • Islamist militants
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5 Fundamental Changes

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  1. Rise of democracy
  2. Stronger economic policies
  3. End of debt crisis
  4. New technologies
  5. New generation of leaders
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AMERICA vs LIBERIA

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  • both have states
  • both have presidents (24th is ellen Johnson sirleaf)
  • Liberia has song dedicated to george bush
  • both have the dollar
  • Liberia is stepchild of America
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Issues of Egypt

Solutions of Egypt

Groups protesting it

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  • rose in revolt as strikes across country brought daily life to a halt
  • started uprisings
  • repairing public sector
  • open society, no leadership helped this country
  • redesign institutions
  • citizens concerned with drivers license
  • bloggers like Khaled
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Issues of Libya

Solutions of Libya

Groups protesting it

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  • Provincial leaders working on strengthening independent republic
  • ignited protests in eastern provinces
  • recover from civil war
  • restore security and introduce law under Qaddafi
  • ragtag bands of armed rebels
  • Libyan tribes and families
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Leader of Egypt

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Mubarak

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Leader of Tunisia

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Ben Ali

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Leader of Libya

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Muammar Qaddafi

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Ivory Coast

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Lady sat in on office meetings and husband forced to 20 years of prison

St. Paul’s cathedral

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Cameroon

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Chimpanzees becoming extinct and deforestation

Mount Cameroon- active volcano
New roads being built for farmers- danger

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Guinea

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Ebola, public health agency of Canada

Mount Nimba- tourism and protection
High risk for diseases
One of most devastating areas

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Egypt

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Terrorism- Muslim brotherhood

Boy beaten because didn’t do homework

Nile River
16th most populated
In need of American weapons

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South Sudan

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Terrorism threat. Lost boys

Mt. kinyeti
2011 gained independence
2 civil wars previous to succession

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Thailand

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Water pollution

Dry, mountainous, tropical
Farmers ARENT sharing water

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South Africa

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Highest outbreak of aids, Nelson Mandela (Africa’s son)

Pretoria- capital
Grading scale lower than ours 
Uniforms, all year round schooling
Atlantic and Indian oceans 
Limestone caves 
320 days of sunshine per year
Table mountain, national parks, animals
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Kenya

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Joe Yung, Africans couldn’t eat in restaurant but he didn’t even have a license

Nairobi- capital
Racism on social media

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Tunisia

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Terrorists attacks, Isis attack

Tunis- capital
Great Mosque of Kairo- Muslims only (Mecca)

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Seychelles

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Tourism??

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Democratic republic of Congo

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Congolese army- rape children and women. Executed them

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Mauritania

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Slavery- 20% population

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Haile Salassie

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Emperor of Ethiopia

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Westerners called European leaders _____ and African leaders _____

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Kings

Chiefs

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The name of the most important document written in Africa in 1865-1871 period?

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The Fantl Constitution

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Who is President of Liberia?

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Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

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What year did Liberia finally end war?

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2003

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3 positive things that happened to Liberia over past 4 years?

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  1. rehabilitated hundreds of schools
  2. Doubled health facilities who provide immunities to yellow fever and polio
  3. Rebuilding of roads and bridges and brought water back to city
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Dictators are replaced by _______?

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Democracy

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How many countries are emerging in Africa?

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