Africa Flashcards
Why salt had a huge importance
It was used to preserve foods
Sunni Ali and Askia where leaders of
Songhai empire
Western Africa’s earliest empire was known as
Ghana
City developed by Mansa Musa that was a center of learning
Timbuktu
Two colonies established for free slaves after the abolition of slavery
Sierra Leon and Liberia
Mansa Musa gained international fame for his adoption of what religion
Islam
At Berlin Conference, European nations agreed to
Respect each others claims to African territories
The issue with the Berlin Conference
No Africans were invited to sit in
First African state to become a British colony
Gold Coast
Two innovations that helped Europeans in Africa
Maxim gun and medicine
By 1914, all of Africa was colonized except for these 2
Liberia and Ethiopia
Scattering of Africans due to the slave trade
African Diaspora
Christian’s belief that is was their duty to spread Western civilization to the uncivilized
White Man’s Burden
Largest desert in Africa
Sahara
The Gold-Salt trade resulted in
The growth of powerful kingdoms in western Africa
The movement to end slavery
Abolition
Belief that one culture is better than another
Ethnocentrism
A group of people who can trace descent back to one common ancestor
Lineage
A traditional African religion in which every object has a spirit
Animism
Prosperity of a nation based on the increase of gold supply
Mercantilism
Society of friends
Quakers
pan-africanism
movement supported by W.E.B Dubois and Marcus Garvey that wanted unity among all Africans
W.E.B DuBois
supported pan-africanism
kwane Nkrumah
led Kenya’s independence movement against the British
Rhodesia
renamed Zimbabwe; feared majority rule so they created an independent nation
Robert Mugabe
was the leader of the independence movement\ of Zimbabwe
Tanzania
julius Nyere led the independence movement
Julius Nyere
led the independence movement of Tanzania and was democratically elected
Senegal
senghor led the independence movement; negritude movement
lepold Sengor
famous poet and philosopher who led the independence movement in Senegal. and he was elected the first president also responsible for the negritude movement
negritude
encouraged africans to value their heritage
Rwanda
were the Hutu and Tutsi people lived
Afrikaners
were white south Africans and created the Apartheid
apartheid
were laws of segregation along racial lines “separateness”
pass laws
black south africans were required to carry them. They listed a persons information. Including if they had permission to work and travel. Also had their criminal convictions and taxes
Archbishop Desmond Tutu
Anglican bishop who urged nonviolent resistance against apartheid. He won the nobel peace prize
sharpsville massacre
1960; began as peaceful demonstration against pass las. the police opened fire on the unarmed crowd and killed 60 people. This sparked world anger. Te south african government called a state of emergency to regain control. Black south africans retaliated with a general strike
ANC (African national conference)
the goal was to end apartheid. The government outlawed the group and the leaders were arrested or went into hiding
nelson Mandela
ANC member who ended aparteid
Soweto uprising
1976; students protested a new law requiring Afrikaans in public schools
Afrikaans
was a combination of english and dutch that was only spoke by the white minority
Janjaweed
Arab militias who attacked African in S. Sudan
