Religion
The primary religion in northern Africa
What is Islam/Muslim?
This is the largest desert in the world.
What is the Sahara Desert?
This Scottish woman bravely traveled to Africa to be a missionary in the 1800s, encountering and helping a tribe who killed people with poisonous beans.
Who is Mary Slessor?
This is the term for families made up of several generations.
What is extended family?
Traditionally, at this age, a father took over a boy's education to prepare him to be a man.
What is age 6?
This is how Islam spread into western Africa.
What is traders?
The savannahs in Africa are known for this wondrous sight.
What are herds of wild African animals?
Mansa Musa, who was known to decrease the value of gold in Africa by giving so much of it away during his hajj, was leader of what kingdom?
What is Mali?
This is the term for passing stories down to future generations by telling them out loud.
What is oral history?
This was the earliest African art form.
What is rock painting?
Mansa Musa is famous for this type of religious journey.
What is a hajj?
These two African kingdoms lay in the east of Africa on the Red Sea and the Nile River.
What are Axum and Kush?
Sundiata Keita, who was known by this animalistic nickname, was founder of the Mali Empire.
What is the Lion Prince?
This is the term for a story-teller who passed on a village's history, lessons, and genealogies.
What is a griot?
This was the reason for the dance rituals of many African people groups, sometimes compared to a quincenera or bar mitzvah.
What is celebrating stages of life?/What is celebrating when children became adults?
This is the Muslim policy about slavery.
Muslims cannot have Muslim slaves.
These are the names of two major rivers in Africa.
What are the Nile River, the Congo River, (and the Niger River)?
The migration of this people group helped spread their culture around Africa.
Who are the Bantu people?
This is the term for a society who traces their ancestry through mothers, not fathers.
What is matrilineal?
This European country took African slaves to work on their sugarcane plantations.
What is Portugal?
According to Acts 8, the Ethiopian eunuch learned about Jesus from this Christian man.
Who is Philip.
This African kingdom lay in the south of Africa, accessible from ports on the eastern coast.
What is Zimbabwe?
This queen spent 30 years resisting the African slave trade.
Who is Queen Nzinga?
This term comes from an Arabic word meaning "people of the coast" and came to represent the culture of East Africa's coast and their language.
What is Swahili?
This is the term for songs of religious faith and hopes for freedom, commonly sung among American slaves.
What are spirituals?