Music/Dance
This modern Nigerian genre combines traditional West African rhythms with elements of jazz, funk, and highlife, and has been popularized by artists like Fela Kuti and Burna Boy.
What is Afrobeats?
Addis Ababa is the capital of this landlocked country.
What is Ethiopia?
This staple West African dough is made from yam, cassava, or plantains and eaten with soups.
What is fufu?
This European country attempted to colonize Ethiopia in both the late 19th and early 20th centuries — and failed the first time at the Battle of Adwa.
What is italy?
This African country is famous for producing Nollywood, one of the largest film industries in the world.
What is Nigeria?
This traditional Ethiopian dance is known for its energetic shoulder movements and is often performed during cultural celebrations and weddings.
What is eskista?
This mountain in Tanzania is Africa’s tallest peak.
What is Mount Kilimanjaro?
In Ethiopian tradition, feeding a loved one a bite of food by hand is a gesture of affection called this.
What is a gursha?
This medieval capital of Ethiopia is known for its eleven rock-hewn churches carved from solid stone.
What is Lalibela
This North African country won the 2019 Africa Cup of Nations in soccer, defeating Senegal in the final.
Who is Algeria?
Before Burna Boy and Wizkid, this artist helped shape Afropop in the late 2000s with his debut album Mushin 2 Mo’Hits.
Who is Wande Coal?
The source of the Blue Nile is located near this Ethiopian lake.
What is Lake Tana?
This Ethiopian grain used to make injera is one of the most ancient and nutritious grains in the world.
What is teff?
This empire in West Africa was known for its wealth and trade in gold and salt.
What is the Mali Empire?
This Nigerian-born actor gained international fame starring in Black Panther and 42.
Who is Lupita Nyong’o?
This is a traditional Oromo dance from Ethiopia, known for its graceful and rapid head and neck movements, particularly by women, combined with rhythmic shoulder and chest movements by both men and women.
What is Shagoye?
This North African country is home to the Sahara Desert, the ancient pyramids of Giza, and the Nile River, the longest river in the world.
What is Egypt?
This fried pastry stuffed with meat or vegetables is a popular East African snack with Indian roots.
What is a somosa?
Kwame Nkrumah led this country to become the first sub-Saharan African nation to gain independence in 1957.
What is Ghana?
This South African singer is known as “Mama Africa” and helped bring African music to the world stage.
Who is Miriam Makeba?
The traditional Ethiopian stringed instrument often used in folk music.
What is krar?
This archipelago nation off Africa’s east coast is known for its unique biodiversity, with over 90% of its wildlife found nowhere else on Earth.
What is Madagascar?
This North African street food made from fried chickpea balls is now eaten worldwide.
What is falafel?
This 20th-century South African political party fought against apartheid and became the ruling party after 1994.
What is the African National Congress (ANC)?
This person was the previous prime minister, and served as Ethiopia’s Prime Minister from 2012 to 2018 and is known for his work on economic development and government reforms.
Who is Hailemariam Desalegn?