Geography
This large desert in North Africa acts as a barrier between North and Sub-Saharan Africa.
What is the Sahara Desert?
This European event divided Africa among colonial powers in 1884.
What is the Berlin Conference?
This country was the first in Sub-Saharan Africa to gain independence in 1957.
What is Ghana?
Define apartheid.
What is a system of racial segregation in South Africa?
Griots are important in African history because they...
What is preserve oral traditions and history?
Name one of the major rivers that support trade and agriculture in Sub-Saharan Africa.
What is the Niger River / Congo River?
Name one natural resource that made Africa valuable to European colonizers.
What is gold / diamonds / oil / rubber?
Who was the leader of Ghana’s independence movement?
Who is Kwame Nkrumah?
Name one way Black South Africans were discriminated against under apartheid.
What is restricted movement / segregated schools / lower wages / poor housing?
Name one traditional African music or storytelling tradition.
What is drumming / folk tales / call-and-response songs?
The Great Rift Valley was created by this geological process.
What is tectonic plate movement?
How did European powers draw borders in Africa, and why was this a problem?
What is drawing artificial borders that ignored ethnic and cultural divisions?
What made Kenya’s independence movement different from Ghana’s?
What is Kenya’s struggle involved violent conflict, like the Mau Mau Rebellion?
This activist was imprisoned for 27 years before becoming South Africa’s first Black president.
Who is Nelson Mandela?
What is one reason for rapid urbanization in modern Africa?
What is job opportunities in cities / economic migration?
Why do many African countries depend on natural resource exports rather than manufacturing?
What is colonial economic influence? / Colonization structured economies around raw materials.
One long-term effect of colonization on African economies is...
What is dependence on exporting raw materials instead of producing goods?
The Democratic Republic of the Congo faced instability after independence because…
What is Belgium left without preparing them for self-rule?
What was the international response to apartheid?
What is economic sanctions / global protests / banning South Africa from sports competitions?
Why do some African nations struggle with political instability today?
What is ethnic divisions caused by colonial borders?
How does the geography of Sub-Saharan Africa influence migration patterns?
What is people moving to cities for jobs / climate changes causing displacement?
Why did European powers leave many African nations unprepared for independence?
What is they didn’t train local leaders / kept economies dependent / wanted to maintain influence?
How did some European countries try to maintain control even after African nations gained independence?
What is economic influence, military support for certain leaders, or political interference?
How did apartheid officially end?
What is internal protests, international pressure, and government negotiations?
Explain how African traditions have influenced modern global culture.
What is through music, fashion, literature, and storytelling?