Africa Flashcards
A meeting of European powers, held between 1884-1885 to regulate European colonization of Africa.
Berlin Conference,
a belief that all elements of nature have spirits.
animism
large family groups with an early common ancestor. People often marry within their clan
clans
the practice of passing down stories and history by word of mouth. It is evident in folktales, myths, and proverbs.
oral tradition
most common, where the farmer and family consume most of what is produced, leaving little to sell at market.
Subsistence farming
caused by too many animals eating plants in an area for too long.
Overgrazing
A famous European explorer was a British doctor and missionary. He wanted to end the slave trade, but also spread European civilization throughout Africa.
David Livingstone
hundreds of indigenous languages are spoken in East Africa, however, because of European colonization, English and French often serve
lingua franca
(acquired immunodeficiency syndrome), a disease caused by a virus known as HIV (Human immunodeficiency virus) has become an epidemic.
AIDS
The Masai of Kenya and Tanzania are pastoralists and live in where elders make important decisions in the absence of a formal government
stateless societies
tourism based on concern for the environment.
ecotourism
illegal hunting
Poaching
Diamonds from some parts of Africa have been referred to or blood diamonds.
Conflict diamonds,
West Africa has one of the highest rates in the world today.
urbanization
the physical systems that affect the organization and operation of a place (transportation systems, phone lines, roads, sewer, electricity, etc.)
infrastructure
In 1878 began establishing trade posts along the Congo River. He convinced European powers to grant him control of the region, which along with the people, were considered to be his personal property.
King Leopold II of Belgium
farming or a system of farming that provides all or almost all the goods required by the farm family usually without any significant surplus for sale.
subsistence agriculture
from the 1960s through the 1990s. His rule involved many human rights abuses and civil war. (During his rule the country was called Zaire)
Mobutu Sese Seko
a simplified speech used among people who speak different languages.
pidgin
refers to the meat of animals hunted in the forest, which includes many threatened or endangered species including monkeys, gorillas, and bonobos.
bushmeat
One of the most important Africans in the history of Southern Africa the son of a Zulu chief and Lageni princess.
Shaka
In order to communicate, the Afrikaners and the Africans developed a pidgin dialect that eventually evolved into a new language.
Afrikaans
In 1948 the government established a policy called (an Afrikaans word meaning “separateness.”)
apartheid
Civil protests and boycotts during the 1970s and 80s helped end apartheid in 1994 when South Africa’s first black president, was elected.
Nelson Mandela
