West Africa
Leader of the first country in Africa to achieve independence (in 1957).
Who is Kwame Nkrumah?
Name of Nelson Mandela's political party that won South Africa's first non-racial election in 1994.
What is the ANC?
French settler colony with the largest numbers of settlers in Africa after South Africa.
What is Algeria?
This country suffered a genocide in 1994.
What is Rwanda?
In general these colonies had more violent decolonization processes.
What are Settler Colonies?
What was the cash crop that boomed in Gold Coast/Asante during colonialism?
What is Cocoa?
This disease was particularly devastating in Southern Africa in the 1990s.
What is HIV/AIDS?
Political party/armed movement fighting for Algerian independence
What is the FLN?
Name of state in modern day Uganda ruled by Kabaka Mutesa.
What is Buganda?
Term that means "Portuguese speaking"
What is Lusophone?
Name of the leader of the PAIGC?
Who is Amilcar Cabral?
Located on the Indian Ocean, this was a major Portuguese colony.
What is Mozambique?
Leader of Libya who fell from power in 2011.
Who is Gaddafi?
What was a major British settler colony in East Africa that became independent after the Mau Mau uprising?
What is Kenya?
Name of US military command established in 2007.
What is AFRICOM?
Military figure and war criminal who waged war in Liberia, and was convicted by the ICC.
Who is Charles Taylor?
What was the name of the armed wing of the ANC?
What is Umkhonto we Sizwe or MK?
Name for European settlers in Algeria.
What are pieds-noirs?
Name of a missionary and explorer who mapped much of East and Central Africa?
Who is David Livingston?
This event ended Estado Novo and Portuguese colonization in Africa.
What is the Carnation Revolution?
These works of art were stolen by Britain in the late 1800s.
What are the Benin Bronzes
The name of the independence movement in Namibia?
A main character (and real historical figure) in the Battle of Algiers.
Who is Ali la Pointe?
Name Mobutu changed Congo to in 1971?
What is Zaire?
Name of the British official who developed the strategy of "Indirect Rule."
Who is Frederick Lugard?