Geography
This is the geographic feature that separates Northern Africa from the rest of the continent.
The Sahara Desert
This ethnic group was given preferential treatment by Belgian colonists in Rwanda, and was subsequently targeted during the Rwandan Genocide.
Tutsi
This was the group of white settlers who came to South Africa in the 1600s and took control.
Afrikaners
The spiritual leader and self-proclaimed prophet who led the Lord's Resistance Army in Uganda.
Joseph Kony
This is the youngest country in the world, formed in 2011 as result of a civil war.
South Sudan
This is the tallest mountain in Africa, standing at 19,340 feet.
Mt. Kilimanjaro
Upon leaving, European colonizers left African nations with a lot of this type of financial burden.
Debt
This is the name of the policy that instituted racial segregation and white rule in South Africa between 1948-1994.
Apartheid
This is the name of the militia that the Sudanese Army helped carry out ethnic cleansing in the Darfur region beginning in 2004.
Janjaweed
This is the leader who controlled the Congo as a dictator from 1965-1997.
Mobutu
What are three different types of natural resources found in Sub-Saharan Africa?
Answers vary (Diamonds, gold, oil, copper, cobalt, coltan)
These are the only two countries that remained independent for most of the "Scramble for Africa."
Ethiopia and Liberia
This man led a resistance group against racial segregation and inequality in South Africa, was jailed, and later became president of the country.
Nelson Mandela
This is a rebel group currently operating in mineral-rich regions of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, which the Congolese government has accused Rwanda of supporting.
Belgian colonizers used short nose length and owning fewer than ten cows to identify this lower-class ethnic group in Rwanda.
Hutu
This is a region just south of the Sahara Desert that includes Mali, Burkina Faso, Niger, Chad, and Nigeria.
The Sahel
Europeans often imposed this religion on the African colonies.
(Hint: think back to last unit)
Christianity
This group fought against racial segregation and inequality in South Africa with protests, strikes, and even a military operation.
African National Congress
This terror group primarily operates in Somalia and infamously carried out an attack on a Kenyan mall in 2013.
Al Shabaab
This country is sometimes included in the BRICS group, which is a group of nations expected to significantly influence global economic growth in the coming decades.
South Africa
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Red: Democratic Republic of the Congo
Blue: Sudan
Green: Somalia
Orange: Rwanda
Name two types of infrastructure that European colonists had built in their African colonies in order to make them profitable.
Answers vary (mines, plantations, factories, ports)
This is the name for the poor urban communities that Black South Africans were forced to live in, situated on the outskirts of major cities.
Townships
This terror group declared the territories it controlled in Nigeria as a caliphate in 2014, and later pledged these territories to a different group's ambitions to build a global caliphate in 2015.
Boko Haram
While Sub-Saharan Africa has the world's highest birth rate and highest population growth rate, they have the lowest of these two statistics in the world.
(Hint: one is related to life, one is related to economies)
Shortest life expectancy, lowest economic growth rate