Countries
Between 1989 and 2019, this nation experienced a 30-year-long military dictatorship led by Omar al-Bashir, which was accused ethnic genocide due to its role in the War in the Darfur region that broke out in 2003.
What is Sudan?
"Blood diamonds" are also referred to as this kind of diamond, to highlight that they are often mined in war zones.
What are "conflict diamonds"?
This capital of Egypt is also its largest city.
What is Cairo?
One of the world's largest deserts, it spans nearly a third of the African continent.
What the Sahara?
Three African lakes named after British royalty include Lake Albert, Lake Edward, and this, the largest of them all.
What is Lake Victoria?
The main tourist attractions in this country are photo safaris through the 60 national parks and game reserves. Other attractions include the wildebeest migration at the Masaai Mara, which is considered to be the 7th wonder of the world.
What is Kenya?
Algeria is rich in this, also known as crude oil.
What is petroleum?
A city in Morocco, made famous among American audiences by a movie starring Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman.
What is Casablanca?
The oceans to the west and east of Africa.
What are the Atlantic and Indian Oceans?
This animal is widely considered to be the most dangerous in Africa. (other than the mosquito)
What is the hippopotamus?
The most populous country in Africa, as well as its largest economy.
What is Nigeria?
20% of the world's supply of this resource is found in Africa (chemical symbol Au).
What is gold?
This capital and largest city of Libya has a name that derives from the Greek for "Three Cities."
What is Tripoli?
This animal is important for trans-Saharan trade.
What is a camel?
This river figures prominently in Joseph Conrad's novella Heart of Darkness.
What is the Congo?
This country was the first independent nation after colonization, Kofi Annan, the Secretary-General of the United Nations from 1997-2006, was from this nation, which has recently enjoyed a positive diplomatic relationship with the United States.
What is Ghana?
Production of this element (chemical symbol U) is important part of the African economy.
What is uranium?
This Egyptian city was founded in c. 331 BC by the King of Macedon and leader of the Greek League of Corinth, during his conquest of the Achaemenid Empire.
What is Alexandria?
This is the name of a rocky headland on the Atlantic coast of the Cape Peninsula in South Africa--its a common misconception that this place is the southern tip of Africa.
What is the Cape of Good Hope?
What is the Niger?
This country takes its name from a mountain range named for a large African cat.
What is Sierra Leone?
What is arabica?
This city was a site of a major 1993 battle in the Somali Civil War.
What is Mogadishu?
This South African desert covers much of Botswana and extends into Namibia and South Africa.
What is the Kalahari?
A region of the Nile River, known for its fertility, shares its name with this Greek letter.
What is Delta?