Misc. Africa Facts
The largest hot desert in the world?
What is the Sahara?
The fourth top problem in Africa.
(3000 different tribes, people are more loyal to tribes than they are the government)
What is political corruption?
The five major beliefs of Islam.
What is faith, prayer, fasting, almsgiving, and hajj?
What we would call those who believe in Judaism.
(has two potential answers)
What is Jews/Hebrews?
This woman is a female activist who is fighting for female education in Pakistan.
Who is Malala?
The the process by which fertile land becomes desert, typically as a result of drought, deforestation, or inappropriate agriculture.
What is desertification?
(drought, famine, lack of money to supply advancement, rampant disease, lack of medical supplies)
What is health problems?
The Islamic belief that says those who believe must fast during the month of Ramadan from dusk to dawn.
(Ramadan is the month-long celebration of the scriptures of the Koran)
What is fasting?
The location where Judaism was created.
What is Israel?
What is Osama bin Laden?
Urbanization, climate change, overuse of ground water, deforestation, natural disasters, cash crops are causes of blank.
What is the causes of desertifocation?
The second top problem in Africa currently.
(colonization, slave trade, Europe made borders so tribes are shut off from one another and many land locked countries)
What is historical problems?
The Islam belief that those who believe must pray in the direction of Mecca five times a day which is led by Imam, the prayer leader in a minaret on a mosque.
What is prayer?
The book that those who believe in Judaism use.
What is the Torah?
The multinational militant Sunni Islamic extremist network and was under the power of Osama bin Laden and now under the power of Ayman al-Zawahiri.
What is Al-Qaeda?
A group of people who are monogamous who live and travel in the desert and are in a constant search for an oasis.
What is the Tuareg?
The top problem in Africa.
(3000 different tribes, people are loyal to their tribes and not the government)
What is Civil War and Tribal Conflicts?
The Islam that believes that those who believe must fully submit themselves to Allah, and Allah sees everyone as "equals".
What is faith?
The place where those who believe in Judaism practice their faith.
What is a synagogue?
A policy or system of segregation or discrimination on grounds of race.
What is Aparatheid?
The southern border of the Sahara, also is a transition area from the Sahara around central Africa.
What is the Sahel?
The fifth top problem in Africa.
(results from every question above and low GDP and lack of resources)
What is perpetual poverty?
The two beliefs of Islam that self sacrifice to give to the poor, and a 5 day ceremony & prayer and it is said that those who believe must visit once in their lifetime to pray.
What are almsgiving and hajj?
Jewish special holidays during the year.
Yom Kippur - the holiest day of the jewish year
Rosh Hashanah - the Jewish new Year
Bar and Bat Mitzvah - the jewish ritual for children coming of age
This man was the former president of South Africa and he fought apartheid.
What is Nelson Mandela?