People 1
Socialist dictator who began to nationalize the Congo’s industries and named it Zaire.
Joseph Mobutu
Name the 3 rivers that form natural borders in southern Africa.
Orange, Zambezi, Limpopo
What country was once called the “Gold Coast”?
Ghana
Small peninsula close to the southernmost tip of Africa.
Cape of Good Hope
Aswan High Dam’s reservoir was named after him and he was Egypt’s first president.
Gamal Abder Nasser
Eventual name given to the Boers (Dutch farmers) as hey increased in number
Afrikaners
Former slave owner and writer of “Amazing Grace”
John Newton
What vast desert covers most of Northern Africa?
Sahara
What city in the Nile River Valley is the largest city in Africa?
Cairo
The easternmost point of Africa is said to be shaped like a ________ of a ________.
horn of a rhinoceros
Scottish missionary who explored the African interior in the mid-19th century.
David Livingstone
Open air markets
bazaars
First bishop of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church, remembered as “Father of Peace”
Frumentius
What is Africa’s second highest mountain?
Mount Kenya
Pagan tribal belief that natural objects are inhabited by mostly evil spirits.
Animism
Longest lake in Africa.
Tanganyika
First black bishop to be ordained by the Church of England
Samuel Adjai Crowther
Narrow streets or alleys lined with shops and workrooms
Medinas
Man who traced the Congo River to its source in 1877.
Henry M. Stanley
Largest lake in Africa and second largest freshwater lake in the world.
Lake Victoria
Most likely the most threatening disease in Africa.
Malaria
Large fracture in the earths surface that begins in Asia's Jordan River valley and continues beneath the Red Sea and cuts through Africa from Ethiopia to Mozambique.
Great Rift Valley
Deposed Libya’s pro-Western king and established a military dictatorship.
Muammar Qaddafi
Program of racial segregation
Apartheid
Communist leader of the African National Congress
Nelson Mandela
Body of water that separates the African mainland from the island of Madagascar.
Mozambique Channel
The lands west of Egypt are known to Arabs as what?
Maghreb
Name the 6 main rivers in Africa.
Congo, Nile, Niger, Orange, Limpopo, Zambezi
Emperor who began a modernization program in Ethiopia to increase prosperity and security of his people.
Haile Selassie I
Nomadic people that first settled in the Maghreb
Berbers
Kikuyu leader who became the first president of Kenya and helped Britain set up some free enterprise
Jomo Kenyatta
What is Southern Africa’s largest desert region known as?
Kalahari
Nomadic tribe that roams the desert & steppe of the savanna as herdsmen/farmers.
Tuaregs
List the 4 northwestern countries that make up the "Maghreb".
Morocco, Tunisia, Algeria, Libya
Ghana’s first president who became an idol of African nationalists
Kwame Nkrumah
A vast marshy area between the White Nile and the Blue Nile / largest swamp in the world.
Sudd