Africa Review Flashcards
Which disease is caused by a lack of protein?
Red baby
Who is the tallest group of people in the world?
Dinka
What vector brings African sleeping sickness?
The tsetse fly
Which group of people have a click incorporated into their language?
San (bushmen)
Which group fought the dutch in the battle of blood river?
Zulu
Four things about Malan
South Africa
1948
Dutch
Tomlinson committee
Who were the earliest inhabitants of Africa?
San (bushmen)
When did the Dutch arrive in South Africa?
1652
Four things about the Khoikhoi
South Africa
Nomads
First to meet the Dutch
Griqua are their offspring
Approximately, how many languages are spoken in Africa?
Over 1200
What are the two largest problems for Africa?
There are too many languages
Overpopulation
Three things about the Griqua
Outcasts
Go to center
Dutch
Khoikhoi
Which country is the most populated?
Nigeria
Which city is most populated?
Cairo
What is Egypt’s number one export?
Oil and petroleum (Used to be Cotton)
Four things about the Aswan high dam
In Egypt
Nile River
Doesn’t allow silt and nutrients to go to crops
Electricity
What is unique about Kimberly in south Africa?
It is a mine with diamonds
What does Maghreb mean?
Land farther west
The average African is host to how many parasites in their lifetime?
Three
What vector brings schistosomiasis?
Snails
What is marasmus?
Malnutrition
What is the great rift valley and how many grand canyons can fit into it?
Two plates that pull apart
30
What is the birthrate, death rate, life expectancy, and per capita income for Africa?
The birthrate is 44
The death rate is 14
The life expectancy is 53
The per capita income is 610
What is Afrikaans?
Dutch and French in south Africa
A gully or dry riverbed
Wadi
A market in an Arab community
Souk
This was instituted to encourage economic growth in Kenya
Harambee
religious belief that nature has spiritual beings
Animism
An overthrow of an existing government
Coup
An Egyptian farmer
Fellaheen
Broad band of semi arid land south of the Sahara
Sahel
A steep cliff that separates two level areas of differing elevations
Escarpment
A country completely surrounded by another country
Enclave
Wealth in the form of money or property owned or used in business; Wealth in whatever form, used to produce more wealth
Capital
The old section of a north African city usually centered around a mosque
Medina
A person who flees his or her country to escape invasion, oppression, or persecution
Refugee
A program to reform the structure of an economy
Structural adjustment program
The departure of trained white administrators and technicians from a region
White flight
