Apartheid
Derived from the Afrikaans language, this 9-letter word literally translates to 'apartness' or 'separateness.
What is Apartheid?
In geography, this two-word term describes negative reasons—like war, famine, or lack of jobs—that force or encourage people to leave their home country.
What is a push factor?
Unlike a democracy where many people share power, this system of government features a single leader with absolute and total control over the country.
What is an autocracy?
In this novel based on a true story, a young boy named Salva Dut becomes one of the 'Lost Boys' after fleeing civil war in this East African nation.
What is Sudan (or modern South Sudan)?
In this economic model, often associated with communism, the central government—rather than supply and demand—determines what goods are produced, how much is made, and the price at which they are sold.
What is a command economy?
South Africa’s colonial history is unique because it was shaped by two different European nations: first the Dutch, and later this English-speaking empire.
What is Great Britain?
This 8-letter term describes a population that has been scattered or dispersed away from its original homeland to various parts of the world.
What is diaspora?
Instead of every citizen voting on every single law, this system used in the U.S. allows the people to elect specific officials to make decisions on their behalf.
What is a representative republic?
Unlike race, which is often based on physical traits, this identity is based on shared cultural characteristics, such as language, religion, ancestry, and traditions.
What is ethnicity?
Often called capitalism, this system relies on the 'invisible hand' of supply and demand, where private individuals and businesses—rather than the government—make most production and pricing decisions.
What is a market economy?
After spending 27 years in prison for his activism, this Nobel Peace Prize winner was elected in 1994 as South Africa's first Black president.
Nelson Mandela
Taking place during the Vietnam War, this covert military campaign involved the U.S. CIA recruiting Hmong soldiers to fight in the neighboring country of Laos.
What was the Secret War?
While some rights stop the government from acting, this type of right requires the government to provide a service, such as public education or healthcare.
What are positive rights?
After decades of conflict and a national vote, South Sudan officially became the world's youngest nation when it gained independence on July 9 of this year.
What is 2011?
This term describes the ability of a party to produce a greater quantity of a good or service than competitors, using the same amount of resources, often because of their geography and climate.
What is absolute advantage?
The title of Trevor Noah's memoir refers to his birth violating this specific act, which banned marriages and relationships between people of different races.
What is the Immorality Act
What is Laos?
Adopted by the United Nations in 1948, this landmark document outlines 30 fundamental rights that belong to every person on Earth, regardless of where they live.
What is the Universal Declaration of Human Rights?
Nya spends her days walking for water and belongs to this ethnic group, which has a long-standing history of conflict with the Dinka people.
What is Nuer?
Often described as 'the road not taken,' this term refers to the value of the next best alternative that you must give up when making a choice.
What is opportunity cost?
Under Apartheid, Black South Africans were required to carry these identification booklets at all times to justify their presence in 'white-only' areas.
What are passbooks?
Beginning in 1991, this ongoing internal conflict and lack of a central government forced millions of people to flee this nation in the Horn of Africa.
What is the Somali Civil War?
Located between the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman, this narrow waterway is a vital shipping lane where approximately one-fifth (20%) of the world's total oil supply passes through daily.
What is the Strait of Hormuz?
Displaced during the Second Sudanese Civil War, this group of over 20,000 children traveled hundreds of miles on foot to reach refugee camps in Ethiopia and Kenya.
Who were the Lost Boys?
This measurement refers to the level of wealth, comfort, and material goods available to the average person.
What is standard of living?