North Africa
This desert covers much of North Africa and is the largest hot desert in the world.
What is the Sahara Desert?
This region south of the Sahara has poor soil and little rainfall, making farming difficult.
What is the Sahel?
This large rainforest and river system dominates much of Central Africa.
What is the Congo Basin?
This volcanic mountain, Africa’s tallest peak, is found in Tanzania.
What is Mount Kilimanjaro?
This desert, one of the oldest in the world, stretches across Namibia and Botswana.
What is the Kalahari Desert?
This body of water lies to the north of Egypt.
What is the Mediterranean Sea?
Millions of West Africans were taken across the Atlantic in this horrific trade system.
What is the transatlantic slave trade?
This major resource-rich area in Central Africa stretches through Zambia and DROC.
What is the Copper Belt?
This language, widely spoken across East Africa, is a mix of Bantu and Arabic influences.
What is Swahili?
The first Europeans to explore Southern Africa were the _______________.
Who were the Portuguese?
This major city, once the capital, was home to the famous Library of the ancient world.
What is Alexandria?
This resource was so valuable that it was traded for gold in ancient West African kingdoms.
What is salt?
This Central African kingdom grew powerful in the 1300s through trade.
What is the Kongo Kingdom?
In the 1700s, this island became a major international center for the slave trade.
What is Zanzibar?
This system of racial segregation and discrimination was officially ended in South Africa in 1994.
What is apartheid?
This ruler controlled Libya for over 40 years until 2011.
Who was Muammar Gaddafi?
Some people in the Niger Delta and Nigeria turn to this illegal activity to survive and make money.
What is oil theft or illegal oil refining?
This valuable metal, used in batteries and smartphones, is mined in the DROC, often by children in dangerous conditions.
What is coltan?
The Mau Mau rebellion was a major resistance movement against colonial rule in this country.
What is Kenya?
Lesotho and Eswatini share a unique geopolitical status as _____________.
What is an enclaves?
Morocco is known for this traditional open-air market.
What is a souk?
This international organization or agreement tries to reduce child labor in cocoa production through fair trade practices.
What is Fairtrade (or what is the International Labour Organization / Harkin–Engel Protocol)?
The Democratic Republic of the Congo was a colony of this European country until 1960.
What is Belgium?
Elders from the Nandi ethnic group want this spiritual leader’s head returned from Britain. (From NY Times Article)
Who is Koitalel Arap Samoei?
Name two of Madagascar’s main exports.
What are vanilla, coffee, cloves, and spices?