Africa Studys Flashcards
Animism
The belief in a super natural power that organizes and animates the material universe.
Apartheid
Was a system of racial segregation and discrimination in South Africa between 1948 and 1991
Bushmeat
Meat of African wild animals
Cash crop
Crop produced for its commercial value rather than for use by the grower.
Colony
Country under the full partial political control of another country
Great Rift Valley
Formed by crash of continental plates. Approximately 6,00 kilometers in length.
Great scramble for Africa
Was the occupation, division and colonization of African territory by European powers between the periods of 1881 and 1914
Great zimbabwea
Ruined city
Griot
Member of a class of traveling poets
Indigenous
Natives to a certain place
Slam
Religion in which people believe and Allah and read Qua’ran
Malaria
Disease caused by plasmodium parasites. Transmitted by the bite of infected mosquitoes.
Masai
Nilotic ethnic group inhabiting southern Kenya and northern Tanzania
Matrilineal society
Group adhering to a kingship system in which ancestral descent is traced through maternal instead of paternal.
Non renewable resource
Oil coal and natural gas