Geography
Longest river in Africa, located in Egypt and Sudan.
What is the Nile?
This is White Gold.
What is Salt?
Name three European countries that colonized Africa.
What is Britain [England], France, Germany, Spain, Portugal, Belgium, and Italy?
There are many reasons why Europe was leaving Africa in the 1950s-1970s. Name two reasons why.
What is:
-broke after WW2
-constant rebellions
-Colonies more expensive than they are worth
Ghanian Air Force officer-turned-dictator changed Ghana from a military dictatorship into this.
What is Democracy?
Largest hot desert in the world, located in North Africa.
What is the Sahara?
This was the trade network between black West Africans and North african/Middle Eastern Arabs.
What is the Salt Trade?
The European colonization of Africa was called this after the Berlin Conference of 1884.
What is the Scramble for Africa?
Kenyan resistance movement against the British. Failed to liberate Kenya but it helped pave the way to independence.
What is Mau Mau?
First black president of South Africa.
Who is Nelson Mandela?
The semi-arid region located between the Sahara Desert and the rainforests of Western and Central Africa.
What is the Sahel?
Due to trade between Africans and Arabs, this religion became a major religion of West Africa and still is to this day.
What is Islam?
This part of Africa was colonized by Belgium, was full of rubber trees and lot of forced labor happened plus mutilations for slow work.
What is the Congo? / What is the Belgian Congo?
Most post-colonization African countries devolved into this type of government.
What is a dictatorship?
The illegal hunting down of animals (especially exotic species) is called this.
What is poaching?
Tall grasslands in eastern Africa, think 'Lion King.'
What is the Savanna?
This was the slave trade between Africa and Europe from the 1500s to the early 1800s before being stopped by Britain, with the purchased slaves sent to the Americas as a labor force.
What is the Atlantic Slave Trade?
This European empire lost their African colonies after their defeat in World War 1.
Who is Germany?
A major reason why Nigeria and the secessionist [rebel] region of Biafra went to war was over this resource:
What is oil?
Highly infectious STD [sexually transmitted disease], spread through blood. Started in Africa and spread across the world in the 1970s/1980s.
What is HIV/AIDS?
1. This is the main river basin of Western Africa:
2. This is the main river basin of Central Africa:
1. What is the Niger River?
2. What is the Congo River?
Emperor of the Mali Empire in West Africa, the richest man in human history, richer than Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos combined.
Who is Mansa Musa?
These are the only two countries in Africa not colonized by Europe and their borders are of their own making:
What is Liberia and Ethiopia?
South Africa put into place a racist system of segregation in 1948 that lasted until 1994. It means 'Apartness' in Afrikaner [the Dutch language spoken by the white Boers].
What is Apartheid?
Despite being the richest continent in resource potential, these are reasons why most African nations are considered poor or "developing"
What are dictatorships, ethnic violence, linguistic and cultural differences, brain drain, outdated technology and poor infrastructure.