Vocabulary
This is the term for colonies becoming independent.
What is decolonization?
This event was where European leaders came together to divide Africa into colonies.
What was the Berlin Conference?
This country maintained Apartheid until 1991.
What is South Africa?
This pandemic was caused by unclean drinking water.
What is Cholera?
This HEI encourages 11 countries to work together to create a natural barrier to desertification and overgrazing.
What is the Great Green Wall?
This is the term referring to an outbreak of disease.
What is "pandemic"?
This country colonized Rwanda.
What is Belgium?
This is caused by the rise of dictators and government corruption in North Africa.
What was the Arab Spring?
These are geographical features that make trade harder in Africa.
Which are waterfalls, deserts, plateaus, smooth coastlines, and landlocked countries?
This HEI connects Europe, Africa and Asia for trade by shortening travel time. It is a chokepoint connecting Red Sea and Mediterranean Sea.
What is the Suez Canal?
This term is used for a diamond that is mined and sold to finance a war or a dictator.
What is a "conflict/blood diamond"?
50 years of rapid colonization of Africa by European leaders.
What is the Scramble for Africa?
This occurred when extremists from the Hutu tribe killed 800,000+ people from the Tutsi tribe.
What was the Rwandan Genocide?
These gems are used to fund wars and dictators.
What are conflict/blood diamonds?
This HEI provides electricity to people in Egypt, along with preventing floods.
What is the Aswan High Dam?
This was the meeting of European nations to divide Africa into colonies.
What is the Berlin Conference?
These two countries colonized South Africa.
What were the Netherlands and Great Britain?
Blood/conflict diamonds funded a war in this country.
What is Sierra Leone?
This is the term referring to a policy or system of segregation or discrimination based on the grounds of race.
What is Apartheid?
Overgrazing, overfarming, deforestation, drought
What are causes of desertification?
This term refers to the transitional zone between the Sahara Desert and the savanna.
What is the Sahel?
This European country had the most colonies in Africa.
What is France?
(extra points for guessing how many colonies France had!)
These are the two tribes that had conflict with each other, which led to the Rwandan Genocide.
What are the Tutsi and Hutu tribes?
Name one of the four pandemics that had a large impact on Africa.
What is Cholera, Malaria, Ebola, or HIV/AIDS?
This geographical feature allows no natural harbors, which makes it hard for African countries to establish trade.
What is a smooth coastline?