North Africa
West Africa
East Africa
South and Central Africa
Vocabulary
100
What religion helped to unify North Africa?
Islam
100
A nuclear family is composed of what?
Mother, Father, Children
100
What language is used by many different ethnic groups on the East Coast?
Swahili
100
People who move to get a job are called
Migrant workers
100
What were the names of the large farms that Europeans set up?
Plantations
200
Most of the people in North Africa are from what ethnic group?
Arabs
200
One of the strongest family bonds in West Africa is what?
Kinship
200
What is the other religion with the most people in East Africa?
Christianity
200
What part of the economy of South Africa has been the leading area at attracting workers from foreign countries?
Mining
200
What is the name of the people who were storytellers in West Africa?
Griots
300
How many Pillars of Islam are there?
5
300
Name 3 countries in West Africa.
Benin, Burkina Faso, Chad, Cape Verde, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Mali, Mauritania, Nigeria, Niger, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Togo.
300
What country was Julius Nyerere president of?
Tanzania
300
Where were the Afrikaners originally from?
Dutch
300
People who share the same religion, language and customs are a part of the same
Ethnic group
400
Name three countries in North Africa
Egypt, Libya, Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco, West Sahara
400
What is the major problem does the movie Blood Diamond tackle?
Child soldiers or conflict diamonds
400
Name three countries in East Africa.
Kenya, Sudan, South Sudan, Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Tanzania, Somalia, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, Seychelles,
400
Southern Africa is home to what two European groups (there are actually 3)
Portuguese, British, Dutch
400
Several lineages make up what
Clan
500
What body of water has a major impact on all of the countries of North Africa?
Mediterranean Sea
500
Who was Wole Soyinka?
Nobel Prize winning writer.
500
What is the name of the major island of the coast of Tanzania?
Zanzibar
500
Name three countries other than South Africa or the Democratic Republic of Congo in Central and Southern Africa.
R of Congo, Angola, Namibia, Zimbabwe, Zambia, Botswana, Lesotho, Swaziland, Central African Republic, Gabon, Madagascar, Mozambique, Comoros, Malawi, Equatorial Guinea, Cameroon, Mauritius
500
What is the spread of ideas, languages, and religion called?
Cultural diffusion
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