Capitals
What is the capital of Kenya?
Nairobi
The Congo River separates the capital cities of the D.R.C. and what other country?
The Republic of the Congo
The region of the Kongo (D.R.C. and the Congo) used to be controlled by what European country?
Belgium
What country in Africa, besides Liberia, was never colonized by a European power during the colonization era of the 19th century?
Ethiopia
What country derives its name from the Portuguese word for Shrimp?
Cameroon
What is the capital of the D.R.C.?
Kinshasa
What is the tallest mountain in Africa?
Mt. Kilimanjaro
What was the name of the infamous dictator of Uganda who was deposed when Tanzania invaded?
Idi Amin
The practice of piracy has become a prominent issue along the coast of what country?
Somalia
What country in Africa used to be formerly known as Zaire?
D.R.C
What is the capital of Equatorial Guinea?
Malabo
Many military bases are owned by the U.S. and China, France, and Japan in what country?
Djibouti
What country experienced a nationwide genocide in 1994?
Rwanda
What country saw its ruling Bongo family overthrown in 2023?
Gabon
Kenya exports a large quantity of tea and what other commodity?
Coffee
What is the capital of Ethiopia?
Addis Ababa
Somalia encompasses the majority of what geographic feature in East Africa?
Horn of Africa
Prior to WWII in 1935, Ethiopia was invaded and taken over by what country?
Italy
President Mobuto Sese Seko used to rule what country until his removal in 1997?
D.R.C.
The modern country of Tanzania was formed out of a union between Tanganyika and what island off the coast?
Zanzibar
What is the capital of Tanzania?
Dodoma
The Great Rift Valley is a prominent geographic feature in what country?
Ethiopia
In the 1950s, Kenya faced an armed uprising called what?
Mau Mau Rebellion
What region in northern Ethiopia fought a costly and deadly civil war from 2020-2022 with Ethiopia?
Tigray
Republic of the Congo