Environment
Name of major desert in Sub-Saharan Africa.
What is the Sahara?
The TFR in the region is ______________
What is five?
Name of prolific movie industry based out of Nigeria.
IDP stand for __________________.
What are Internally Displaced Persons?
FDI stands for _________________.
What is Foreign Direct Investment?
Desert like conditions due to human-induced degradation.
What is desertification?
Proportion of the pop who is less than 15 years old (+/- 1%)
What is 43%?
The unofficial trade language throughout the region
What is Swahili?
Government by those who seek chiefly status and personal gain at the expense of the governed.
What is a kleptocracy?
Burning 1/4 of your land each year and rotating crops on your land.
What is swidden agriculture?
Major environmental issue in the region (and so sad).
What is poaching?
Proportion of the population who lives in urban areas?
What is 40%?
Majority religion in northern parts of Sub-Saharan Africa.
What is Islam?
Someone who flees their state/country because of well-founded fear of persecution based on race, ethnicity, religion or political orientation.
Who is a refugee?
The TFR is high because the region relies on this type of agriculture.
What is subsistence agriculture?
Ecological transition between the Sahara and savannas and forests
What is the Sahel
Number of years it will take for the population of South Sudan to double with its current population growth rate of 4.78% (according to CIA World Factbook).
What is the insane number of 14.5 years?
Moving livestock from pasture to pasture in order to find green/healthy vegetation for them to eat.
What is pastoral nomadism?
Name of gathering where 13 European countries divided up the continent to their advantage from a natural resource standpoint without regard to ethnic homeland borders and without any African leaders input.
What is the Berlin Conference of 1884?
What are women tend to spend aid on education (themselves and their children) and healthcare both of which advance economic development.
Three reasons for desertification.
What are
1) mismanagement of water resources
2) overgrazing
3) deforestation
The compounding effect of people moving to cities to find jobs and rapid population growth.
What is the multiplier effect?
Legacy of colonizers establishing capital and ports in countries (to get resources) and exude influence from there.
What are primate cities?
Name of agreement that tried to give support to IDPs so that they get some help/recognition similar to refugees.
What is the Kampala convention?
Five of the six roots of African slow development.
What are:
slavery, colonization, superimposed borders, disease and climate, failed econ development policies, corruption and kleptocracy.