West African Capitals
What is the capital of Mali?
Bamako
What did the Europeans take from Ghana during the beginning of the colonial period?
Slaves
What group of people first colonized Liberia?
What is the capital of Burkina Faso?
Ouagadougou
What is the largest city in Mauritania?
Nouakchott
What is the capital of Guinea-Bissau?
What was Ghana's name before independence?
Gold Coast
How many civil wars has Liberia gone through?
Why did a war start between the Burkinabè people and the French in 1915?
Because the French had been forcing their colonial subjects to fight for them in World War I.
What is the second largest city in Mauritania?
Nouadhibou
What is the capital of Ivory Coast?
Yamoussoukro
Who was the first president of Ghana and what happened to him?
Kwame Nkrumah. He was overthrown by the military because he became a dictator who wanted to rule for life.
True or false: the majority of Black Americans wanted to leave America and colonize Liberia.
False. Most wanted to stay in the country they had been born in and that they had worked to build
What was the original name of Burkina Faso at independence?
Upper Volta
How many countries does Mauritania border? What are they?
4: Algeria, Mali, Senegal, Western Sahara*
What is the capital of Benin?
Porto Novo
What is one of the major cash crops in Ghana and why do its farmers still live in poverty?
Chocolate. Cocoa farmers live in poverty because chocolate corporations buy the cocoa for cheap and process it abroad, so they don't see any of the profits.
Which group of people was directly below the Americo-Liberians in the original Liberian social hierarchy?
Former slaves who had been sent to Liberia as punishment
Name 2 things that were banned for Burkinabè children but allowed for French children.
Picking fruits from trees, riding bicycles
Who was the first president of Mauritania?
Moktar Ould Daddah
What is the capital of Cape Verde?
Praia
What is the name of the huge lake in the east of Ghana?
Lake Volta
Who were "the Congoes"?
People who had been illegally captured as slaves elsewhere in Africa and then dumped in Liberia by the American navy
Name 3 things Thomas Sankara did to try and improve the live of Burkinabè people.
Child vaccinations, reforestation, banning deforestation, making cook stoves, building wells...
Out of 193 ranked countries: Ghana (#145), Mauritania (#164), Liberia (#177), Burkina Faso (#185)