Keys to Africa's Past
a scholar who studies languages
linguist
How was the trade of salt and gold done in Ghana?
Silent trade
Languages spoken in the San and Khoikhoi tribes
click languages
An African people of small stature
Pygmies
a person who studies plants and traces people’s movements by their crops
botanist
King of Aksum Empire
Ezana
A nomadic people of the Sahara in northern Africa
Tuareg
Migrated south from the Benue River
Bantu
an African oral storyteller
griot
Visited King Solomon
Queen of Sheba
One of the earliest people groups in Central Africa
Sao
Dutch and British
stories about the past that are spoken instead of written down
oral history
Remembered for his extravagant pilgrimage to Mecca
Mansa Musa
were farmers, herders, and traders
Tuareg
They organized themselves into clans
Shona
a fertile area in the desert with water
oasis
Mali's strong ruler
Sundiata Keita
Serius abuses of the human rights of these people have plagued Central Africa into modern times.
Pygmies
Miss Montás has 18% of these African people in her blood
Bantu