Strongmen
He had torture chambers and a shark pool to torture his enemies
Who is Adi Amin?
It is Nigeria's main source of income
What is oil?
In 1994, Hutus massacred Tutsis in this country begining a genocide that ended with 800,000 people killed
What is Rwanda?
It is the most populous country in Africa
What is Nigeria?
The Battle of Mogadishu, also known as the "Black Hawk Down" incident, involved a US-led UN mission in Somalia to capture this Somali warlord
Gen. Mohammed Farah Aidid
Nigeria's main two religions
What is Christianity and Islam?
Portugal fought this other European country over control of Mozambique
What is Great Britain?
It is the richest country in Africa, by GDP measure
What is Nigeria?
The first president of Ghana
Who was kwame Nkrumah?
It was a secessionist state that declared independence from Nigeria in 1967, which existed until 1970 when it was defeated during the Nigerian Civil War
What was Biafra?
The ciivil war in Rwanda in 1994 spilled over into these two countries
What is the Congo and Uganda?
Besides Mozambique, it was Portugals other main colony, abandoned in 1975 after a long civil war
What is Angola?
He spent $20 million - one quarter of his nation's revenue - on his coronation ceremony in 1977. He wore a robe that had 2 million pearls and a two million-dollar crown topped with a 138 carat diamonds
Who was Jean-bedel Bokassa?
It is the largest river in West Africa, and flows through Nigeria
What is the Niger river?
A civil war in this country of the horn of Africa brought the U.S. military into the conflict in 1993
What is Somalia?
This country built the "Freedom Railway," linking landlocked Zambia with the Tanzanian port of Dar El Salaam
What is China?
He was the president of Zimbabwe who drove the economy into the ground due to hyper-inflation
Who was Robert Mugabe?
It is a self-proclaimed jihadist terrorist organization based in northeastern Nigeria, that aims to turn Nigeria into a Muslim theocracy
What is Boko Haram?
This country on the Horn of Africa became landlocked in 1991 after a long civil war during which Eritrea seceded
What is Ethiopia?
They are known as "Devils on horseback," an Arab nomad militia group operating in Darfur and eastern Chad
What is the Janjaweed?