The Sahel
Much of the Sahel was under ________ colonial rule.
What is French?
Government policies and poor ___________ practices cause poor food production in East Africa.
What is farming?
Most of the people in West Africa live along the ___________ and river plains
What is the coast?
This country experienced human rights abuses and one-party rule from the late 1960s to the 1990s
What is the Democratic Republic of the Congo?
Which people's traditional homes are called kraals?
Who are the Zulu?
Civil ______ is a consequence of colonial boundaries that cut across ethnic boundaries.
What are wars?
The oldest human bones found in East Africa are about __________ years old.
What is 3 million
High _________ mortality is a consequence of poor health conditions and inadequate nutrition in parts of West Africa
What is infant?
The French changed the economy of the Congo by extracting resources and growing __________ crops.
What is cash?
What percentage of the world's HIV-positive population live in South Africa?
What is 70 percent?
Most rural Africans live without adequate _________, or waste disposal.
What is sanitation?
English and French often serve as a lingua ________, or common language, spoken throughout the subregion.
What is franca
Portuguese explorers wanted ________ and slaves when they began trading in West Africa
What is gold?
__________ and other natural resources is helping countries in Central Africa stabilize?
What is oil?
Country that enjoyed a relatively smooth transition from European colonial rule to independence?
What is Botswana?
________ is the practice of passing down stories through generations by word of mouth.
What is oral tradition?
Country where conflict between Hutu and Tutsi people lead to genocide in 1994
What is Rwanda?
The movement of people from rural areas to cities is called ____________.
What is urbanization?
People who speak different languages may use a simplified speech known as _________.
What is pidgin?
____________ is an imposed separation of races within a country?
What is apartheid?
Members of a(n) ____________ are descended from an early common ancestor.
What is a clan?
Urban Africans often live in a(n) ____________ family made up of parents and their children.
What is nuclear?
The ________ trade greatly increased when Europeans began shipping Africans to the Americas to work on plantations
What is slave?
An overthrow of the government is called a(n) ___________.
What is a coup d'etat?
Universal __________ provides equal voting rights for all.
What is suffrage?