Vocab

Question 1

The takeover of a government, often done by a military force

Answer 1

Coup

Question 2

Where blacks were forced to live during Apartheid

Answer 2

Homelands

Question 3

A city and cheif Atlantic port of Nigeria; a state in Nigeria

Answer 3

Lagos

Question 4

A president of Ghana in the 1980s who tried to reform Ghana and stressed tradional Aftrican values

Answer 4

Jerry Rawlings

Question 5

To treat someone differently because of their gender, race, ethnic group etc.

Answer 5

Discriminate

Question 6

A long period of little or no rainfall

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Drought

Question 7

A country in southeastern Africa.

Answer 7

Lesotho

Question 8

An open air markeplace

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Souq

Question 9

the region in West and Centeral Africa that forms a changing climate zone between the dry Sahara to the north and humid savannas to the south

Answer 9

Sahel

Question 10

A family that includes relatives other than parents & children

Answer 10

Extended family

Question 11

controlled by one person or a small group

Answer 11

Authoritarian

Question 12

A volcano in central Africa

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Mount Kenya

Question 13

Tanznia’s first president

Answer 13

Julius Nyerere

Question 14

A place where monks or nuns work, live, and study

Answer 14

Monastery

Question 15

the total national income divided by the number of people in the nation

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Per capita income

Question 16

the federal capital of Nigeria

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Abuja

Question 17

the capital of Kenya

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Nairobi

Question 18

Money owed to foreign countries

Answer 18

foreign debt

Question 19

Political Independence

Answer 19

Sovereignty

Question 20

The governing body of a nation, state, or community.
The system by which a nation, state, or community is governed.

Answer 20

government

Question 21

Two or more political parties in one country

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Multi-party system

Question 22

a city and the capital of Kano state in northern Nigeria; a historic kingdom in northern Nigeria

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Kano

Question 23

a South African anti-apartheid activist, revolutionary and politician who served as President of South Africa from 1994 to 1999, the first to be elected in a fully representative, multiracial election

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Nelson Mandela

Question 24

To put a once private industry under national control

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Nationalize

Question 25

A family that just consists of a father, mother, and their children

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Nuclear family

Question 26

containing many ethnic group

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Multi ethnic

Question 27

first president of Kenya

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Jomo Kenyatta

Question 28

the capital city of Ethipoia

Answer 28

Addis Ababa

Question 29

the amount of people in a country who have the aids infection

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aids rate

Question 30

first leader of independent Ghana

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Kwame Nkrumah

Question 31

A count of the people in a country

Answer 31

A Census

Question 32

The average age a person is expected to live to be in a country

Answer 32

Life expactancy

Question 33

the first election to include more than one race

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first multi race election

Question 34

A small landlocked kingdom in southern Africa.

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Swaziland

Question 35

An old crowded section of a north african city

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Casabah

Question 36

The changing of fertile land into land that is too dry for crops

Answer 36

desertification

Question 37

The value of one currency for the purpose of conversion to another.

Answer 37

exchange rate

Question 38

Peasants or agricultural workers in an Arab country

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fellaheen

Question 39

the adults in a country that read and write at a fifth grade level

Answer 39

literacy rate

Question 40

the South African system in which racial groups were seperated an racial discrimination was legal

Answer 40

Apartheid

Question 41

To discriminate against someone, a religon, or an ethnic group

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Prejudice

Question 42

a town in Ethipoia famous for its stone churches carved in the 1100s

Answer 42

Lalibela

Question 43

Largest tropical desert in the world, covers almost all of North Africa

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Sahara

Question 44

What people in countries use to buy things is called

Answer 44

Currency

Question 45

The procuring, transporting, and selling of human beings as slaves

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slave trade

Question 46

a common language shared by different people

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Lingua Franca

Question 47

remembered for the founding and brutal exploitation of the Congo Free State

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King Leopold 2

Question 48

the legislative capital of the Republic of South Africa and the capital of Cape Province

Answer 48

Cape Town

Question 49

the President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo from 1965 to 1997

Answer 49

Mobutu Sese Seko,

Question 50

a southern province in Congo

Answer 50

Kantanga

Question 51

One of the first ethnic groups in Algeria since 3000 bc. They have tradional styles of life

Answer 51

Berbers

Question 52

a city in Mali nerar the Niger river; in the past an important center of Islamic education and a trans-Saharan caravan stop

Answer 52

Tombouctou

Question 53

To wear away slowly

Answer 53

Erode

Question 54

Came to Algeria in AD 600, and brought over the religon of Islam

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Arabic/Arabs

Question 55

clearance or clearing is the removal of a forest or stand of trees where the land is thereafter converted to a non-forest use.

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deforesation

Question 56

the capital and largest city in Tanzania, an industrial center and major port on the Indian Ocean

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Dar es Dalaam

Question 57

The Swahili word for "Let's Pull Together'

Answer 57

Harambee

Question 58

the seventh and last State President of apartheid-era South Africa, serving from September 1989 to May 1994 helped apartheid end

Answer 58

FW de Klerk

Question 59

an island in the Indian Ocean off the coast of East Africa, part of Tanzania

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Zanazibar

Question 60

A platfo cut into the side of a moutain ued for growing crops in steep

Question 61

The capital of Egypt and most populous city in Africa

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Cairo

Question 62

A tradional open-air market with rows of shops and stalls

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Bazaar