Vocab Flashcards
The takeover of a government, often done by a military force
Coup
Where blacks were forced to live during Apartheid
Homelands
A city and cheif Atlantic port of Nigeria; a state in Nigeria
Lagos
A president of Ghana in the 1980s who tried to reform Ghana and stressed tradional Aftrican values
Jerry Rawlings
To treat someone differently because of their gender, race, ethnic group etc.
Discriminate
A long period of little or no rainfall
Drought
A country in southeastern Africa.
Lesotho
An open air markeplace
Souq
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
Sahel
A family that includes relatives other than parents & children
Extended family
controlled by one person or a small group
Authoritarian
A volcano in central Africa
Mount Kenya
Tanznia’s first president
Julius Nyerere
A place where monks or nuns work, live, and study
Monastery
the total national income divided by the number of people in the nation
Per capita income
the federal capital of Nigeria
Abuja
the capital of Kenya
Nairobi
Money owed to foreign countries
foreign debt
Political Independence
Sovereignty
The governing body of a nation, state, or community.
The system by which a nation, state, or community is governed.
government
Two or more political parties in one country
Multi-party system
a city and the capital of Kano state in northern Nigeria; a historic kingdom in northern Nigeria
Kano
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
Nelson Mandela
To put a once private industry under national control
Nationalize
A family that just consists of a father, mother, and their children
Nuclear family
containing many ethnic group
Multi ethnic
first president of Kenya
Jomo Kenyatta
the capital city of Ethipoia
Addis Ababa
the amount of people in a country who have the aids infection
aids rate
first leader of independent Ghana
Kwame Nkrumah
A count of the people in a country
A Census
The average age a person is expected to live to be in a country
Life expactancy
the first election to include more than one race
first multi race election
A small landlocked kingdom in southern Africa.
Swaziland
An old crowded section of a north african city
Casabah
The changing of fertile land into land that is too dry for crops
desertification
The value of one currency for the purpose of conversion to another.
exchange rate
Peasants or agricultural workers in an Arab country
fellaheen
the adults in a country that read and write at a fifth grade level
literacy rate
the South African system in which racial groups were seperated an racial discrimination was legal
Apartheid
To discriminate against someone, a religon, or an ethnic group
Prejudice
a town in Ethipoia famous for its stone churches carved in the 1100s
Lalibela
Largest tropical desert in the world, covers almost all of North Africa
Sahara
What people in countries use to buy things is called
Currency
The procuring, transporting, and selling of human beings as slaves
slave trade
a common language shared by different people
Lingua Franca
remembered for the founding and brutal exploitation of the Congo Free State
King Leopold 2
the legislative capital of the Republic of South Africa and the capital of Cape Province
Cape Town
the President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo from 1965 to 1997
Mobutu Sese Seko,
a southern province in Congo
Kantanga
One of the first ethnic groups in Algeria since 3000 bc. They have tradional styles of life
Berbers
a city in Mali nerar the Niger river; in the past an important center of Islamic education and a trans-Saharan caravan stop
Tombouctou
To wear away slowly
Erode
Came to Algeria in AD 600, and brought over the religon of Islam
Arabic/Arabs
clearance or clearing is the removal of a forest or stand of trees where the land is thereafter converted to a non-forest use.
deforesation
the capital and largest city in Tanzania, an industrial center and major port on the Indian Ocean
Dar es Dalaam
The Swahili word for “Let’s Pull Together’
Harambee
the seventh and last State President of apartheid-era South Africa, serving from September 1989 to May 1994 helped apartheid end
FW de Klerk
an island in the Indian Ocean off the coast of East Africa, part of Tanzania
Zanazibar
A platfo cut into the side of a moutain ued for growing crops in steep
The capital of Egypt and most populous city in Africa
Cairo
A tradional open-air market with rows of shops and stalls
Bazaar
