Geography
This large landform in East Africa is the location of earthquakes and volcanoes.
This is the largest hot desert in the world located in North Africa.
What is the Sahara Desert?
North Africa has been heavily influenced by this ethnic group due to Islamic conquest in the 700s.
What is Arabic?
This issue in North Africa is leading too many people to live in cities with too few resources to live adequate lives.
What is Urbanization?
This leader was a ruthless dictator of Uganda in the 1970s.
What is Idi Amin?
This is the second largest freshwater lake.
This mountain in East Africa is so high that is has glaciers at its peaks.
What is Mount Kilimanjaro?
In East Africa, Arabic and Bantu languages combined to create this unique language.
What is Swahili?
East African nations that favor cash crops as exports can often harm this type of farming that supports local families and communities.
What is Subsistence Farming?
This process of turning forests and grasslands into desert is affecting the Sahel of Africa.
What is Desertification?
What is Lake Tanganyika?
These precious minerals are often found in mines in East Africa.
What are gemstones?
Instead of written texts, many African people pass down stories using this type of tradition.
What is Oral Tradition?
North Africa is usually split into factions between supporters of Islamic fundamentalism and supporters of this government style.
What is Democracy?
This major mass killing happened in 1994 between the Hutu and Tutsi peoples in East Africa.
What is the Rwandan Genocide?
This boundary region is located between the Sahara Desert and the savannahs of Central Africa.
What is the Sahel?
What is Salt?
Many rural people in North Africa including the Berbers who move around during their lives are known as this type of person.
What is a Nomad?
National parks and refuges fight against this illegal practice of obtaining animals parts for sale.
What is Poaching?
In the 1880s, European colonial powers divided Africa up into colonies and exploited the continent for its resources and markets during this event.
What is the Scramble for Africa?
These mountains in Northwestern Africa cast a rain shadow that directly impacts the climate of the Sahara Desert.
North Africa is known for mining this important minerals used for making steel.
What is Iron Ore?
This country in East Africa was a Christian Kingdom during the Medieval Period and is known for Monophysite Christianity.
What is Ethiopia?
East African health concerns are focused on containing the spread of and curing this deadly disease.
What is HIV/AIDS?
North Africa was heavily influenced by these series of pro-democracy uprisings in 2010 and 2011.
What is the Arab Spring?