African Prehistory
Independence Leaders
Pan Africanists
Colonies
Music
100
For the vast majority of human history, what form of subsistence was used by human beings (both in Africa and the rest of the world)?
Hunting and Gathering (Foraging)
100
Under his leadership, Ghana engaged in rapid and large-scale economic development projects including education, building shipping ports, and nationalization of many banks, insurance companies, and manufacturing.
Kwame Nkrumah
100
Born in Jamaica, he founded the Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League (UNIA) and led multiple efforts to grow and scale black businesses, newspaper, and other self-advocacy.
Marcus Garvey
100
Originally established as a weigh-station for the Dutch East India Company, it was settled by European farmers.
South Africa (Cape Colony)
100
In West Africa musicians and storytellers who preserve cultural memory are called:
Griots
200
What is the name of given to the society in southern Africa that build large stone cities and was the likely source of gold traded in the Swahili coast?
Great Zimbabwe
200
This uncompromising activist for Pan-African social justice was killed within a year of his election as president of the Congo.
Patrice Lumumba
200
Born into slavery, went on to self-fund a the Tuskegee Institute, an early Black vocational college and founded the National Negro Business League.
Booker T. Washington
200
The Prime Minister of South Africa convinced the British to allocate vast tracts of land to his private mining and development company that eventually became this country.
Rhodesia
200
The formal term for the anthropological study of music.
Ethnomusicology
300
What is the name of the genetically defined common ancestor who lived in Africa that all humans today are descended from?
Mitochondrial Eve
300
He organized the Kenya African Union as a movement for land reform and social change before becoming the first president of an independent Kenya.
Jomo Kenyatta
300
The first African American to earn a doctorate from Harvard, this individual established both an academic sociology of Black life in America, and was a leading figure in the creation of the Pan-African Congress.
W.E.B. DuBois
300
This colony was integrated into French education and governance, developing a Paris-educated Black intellectual leaders.
Senegal
300
The musical performer who played at the independence ceremony in Zimbabwe in 1980.
Bob Marley
400
Ancient rock art in Sudan, dating back at least 5,000 years shows what special relationship between humans and animals?
Cattle and Pastoralism
400
This Negritude poet became the first president of independent Senegal, and maintained a close relationship with France.
Léopold Sédar Senghor
400
This anti-colonialist leader worked as a lawyer in South Africa from 1893-1915 before returning to lead independence in India. He was assassinated by an extremist in 1948.
Mahatma Gandhi
400
Administered under the Belgian "colonial trinity" (trinité coloniale) of state, missionary, and business interests, this colony had one of the worst records of violence and abuse of the local population.
Congo
400
The founder of Afro-Beat music in Nigeria and leader of an opposition political party (Movement of the People) who experienced police and Army brutality.
Fela Kuti
500
Oldowan is a term used to describe what?
Stone tools
500
Using the term ujamaa (Swahili for “familyhood”) he imagined the goal of socialism in Africa as a restoration of the pre-colonial family unit.
Julius Nyerere
500
The first African in the French parliament as a representative of Senegal, this politician and intellectual leader helped secure space and logistics for the 1919 Pan-African Congress in Paris.
Blaise Diagne
500
African leader Moshoeshoe was able to unite various local bands together and negotiate with the Boer Trekkers to establish this homeland for their people.
Lesotho (Basutoland)
500
The name of the musical genre developed in Ghana in the post-independence period that combined traditional African rhythms with Caribbean music and American jazz and soul.
High Life