Geography
What is the name given to the “gash” in the earth that runs from the Middle East southward through East Africa?
Great Rift Valley
This country is a world leader in tea production.
Kenya
Botswana is the world’s largest producer of what precious commodity?
diamonds
he only place in the world where vast herds of large mammals still migrate.
Serengeti Plain
The largest lake in Africa
Lake Victoria
Because of its shape, what is the wide Somali Peninsula on the east side of Africa called?
Horn of AFrica
It is primarily Muslim and recently lost its southern region in a civil war.
Sudan
What is the biggest economic concern for Africa for the foreseeable future?
Debt
Who is the missionary-doctor known for being the first to take the gospel into the interior of sub-Saharan Africa?
David Livingstone
What is the most endangered animal in Eastern and Southern Africa?
Rhinocerus
What desert lies on the Tropic of Capricorn?
Kalahari Desert
It suffered a war between Hutus and Tutsis.
Rwanda
What language did the Boers develop?
Afrikaans
The oppressive policy of ethnic separation that the Afrikaner minority began in South Africa after winning an election in 1948.
Apartheid
This is known as the cleanest city in Africa?
Kegali, Rwanda
These are areas of shallow water where boulders break the surface of the Nile.
cataracts
What is the term for the time in the late nineteenth century when Europeans were grabbing up pieces of Africa?
Scramble for Africa
What tribe from Kenya has members who are noted for their ritual dances and warriors’ skills?
Masai tribe
an economic concept in which African countries stop looking for aid and forgo socialist economic models
Africapitalism
This is the term used for when countries gained independence during the twentieth century.
decolonization
What is the longest river in southern Africa and the fourth longest in Africa?
Zambezi River
Which countries in Africa are growing faster?
Eastern African countries
Which two competing tribes in Rwanda have warred against each other repeatedly, most recently a massacre in 1994 that resulted in the loss of approximately 800,000 lives?
Hutus and Tutsis
Rwanda is following a government model of
What is the most common Bantu language?
Swahili