Government
Areas with limited government control of territory pose a security threat to other nations.
What is a failed state?
900 million people
What is the population of Sub-Saharan Africa?
99% of China’s imports from Africa are ___
What are primary commodities?
This has been difficult for African countries since the Berlin Conference in 1885
What is nation-building?
The blueprint for transforming the African continent into a global powerhouse.
What is agenda 2063?
An undemocratic means to seize power that commonly occurs in the Sahel Belt
What is a military coup?
What two major religions are most widely practiced across Sub-Saharan Africa?
What is Christianity and Islam?
The concept that once a person becomes educated or skilled, they will leave the African continent
What is the brain drain?
What political events have contributed to Nigeria’s instability?
What are repeated military coups?
Organization formed to maintain independence of African states amidst Cold War pressure, and finding common African bonds.
What is African Unity?
The tendency of institutions to develop based on tradition, structure, or previous decisions
What is path dependence?
This percentage of Africa's population is below the age of 25.
What is 60%?
Political instability, civil war, lack of trade relations, and the resource curse are examples of this
What are (Africa’s) challenges to economic development?
What terms refers to the problem resulting when Nigeria focuses too heavily on oil?
What is the resource curse?
This organization replaced the Organization of African Unity (OAU) in 2003?
What is the African Union (AU)?
Racial segregation and discrimination in South Africa enforced by British Settlers
What is apartheid?
Afro-Asiatic, Niger-Congo, Khoisan, Nilo-Saharan, Malagasy
What are the language groups of Sub-Saharan Africa?
This act gave eligible African countries duty-free access to US markets
What is the Africa Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA)?
What has contributed to instability in the DRC?
What are Corruption and civil war?
One of the three major goals of the Millennium Development Goals
What is eradicating extreme hunger and poverty, achieving universal primary education, OR promoting gender equality?
This occurs when African leaders funnel governmental resources into their own cultural groups
What is a neo-patrimonial system?
What event in the late 1800's controversially finalized many of Africa’s colonial borders?
What is the Berlin Conference (1884-1885)?
This corporation uses country-led projects and policies to promote economic development rather than providing loans
What is the Millennium Challenge Corporation, MCC?
What percentage of the DRC’s population lives below the poverty line?
What is around 70%?
This framework’s main goal is to reverse cross-continental economic instability and promote economic development
What is NEPAD, the New Partnership for Africa’s Development?