AAA Africa vocab
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- ANC
- African National Congress; opposed white denomination and aparthied
- Apartheid
- separation of all races; life of restriction for all non-whites;
- Sharpeville
- Police gunned down women, men, and children at a peaceful protest here
- Biafra
- Nigeria; the federal const. didnt work so Hausa tried to gain power; Igo declared themselves the independant state of biafra
- Afrikaners
- descendants of Dutch settlers; created Apartheid
- chibaro
- a system of taxes Africans could not pay so the payed debts off in mines; many died
- The african Debt crisis
- 1970's soaring oil prices hurt the new governments causing increased unemployment and led to higher prices that the poor could not pay
- uhuru
- "freedom" in swahili
- desertification
- spreading desert; land that becomes unproductive and into desert land; a result of overgrazing, and drought
- the African Diaspora
- a group of people forced out of land
- deforestation
- destruction of forest land once forests were cleared, heavy tropical rains washed nutrients from the soil and destroyed its fertility
- Julius Nyerere
- Tanzania's first president; supported a govt. based on African traditional cultures and cooperation and shared responsibility
- Ujamaa
- or "family hood" in swahili; a result of everyone living together and collective farming not working
- pass laws
- women had to get permission from husband, guardian to move from one district to another
- one party state
- a country has one single political party, or only one party that has any real likelihood of winning elections; mostly authoritarion
- AIDS epidemic
- the disease was spread more to southern countries; this happened because people don't know of modern medicine; how it is transmitted or where it comes from
- Archbishop Tutu and the reconciliation commitee
- won nobel peace prize for opposition to apartheid