People
Group of related people descended from the same ancestor.
What is a clan?
A process by which agricultural land is turned into desert.
Folktales and fables passed down through African cultures.
What are oral traditions?
Type of energy produced through the use of falling water.
What is hydroelectric power?
Ethnic group that dominated the Rwandan government int he 1990's.
Who are the Hutu?
Powerful force that seperated Africa from the Arabian Peninsula.
What is shifting tectonic plates?
What is few rivers have formed?
The slaughter of an entire people on ethnic grounds.
What is genocide?
First prime minister of independent Kenya.
Who is Jomo Kenyatta?
Name 1 of 3 East African nations that are landlocked.
What is Burundi, Rwanda, and Uganda?
Economic activity that has brought wealth and power to many regions of Africa.
What is Trade?
Leading East African novelist who wrote Weep Not, Child.
Who is Ngugi wa Thiong'o?
An are of tropical grasslands larger than the state of Connecticut, well known as a wildlife reserve.
What is the Serengeti plain?
The two headwaters that make up the Nile River.
What are the Blue Nile and the White Nile?
Ancient region in northeastern Africa that was the home of kushites.
What is Nubia?
The purpose of David Livingstone'strip to Africa in the 1800's.
What is to find the source of the Nile?
The purpose of the Jonglei canal project.
What is to provide more water to Egypt and Sudan?
Daily Double (1000pts)
How have the major health issues in East Africa affected the regions economy?
Poor nutrition and starvation, wars and conflicts and the spread of deadly diseases.
The result of ethnic tensions that afflicted Rwanda and Burundi in the late 1990's.
What is hundreds of thousands of people were killed?