Africa Main Notes
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- tanzania
- aka german east africa
- 1963
- year zaire got independence
- national islamic front
- name of sudan's ruling party
- 1997
- year charles taylor became president of liberia
- capetown
- city the dutch lost to britain
- Somalia
- people living S Ethiopia, Djibouti, and Kenya want to combine into larger _____
- tsetse
- cause of sleeping sickness, mostly in central nigeria
- oct. 1993
- month and year of Black Hawk Down
- coffee
- resource ethiopia has a lot of
- zaire
- country with 60% of the world's cobalt, copper, gold, iron ore
- kaddafi
- leader of libya
- libya
- leader is Qaddafi (Kaddafi)
- 1847
- year liberia became a country
- 1974
- year ethiopia declared a Communist Marxist state after Selassie was overthrown by military
- muslim
- in egypt, 89% are _____
- Cairo
- most populated city in Africa
- 1910
- year British combined all the southern republics into the Union of South Africa
- 1994
- year of first free vote in South Africa
- tanganyika
- aka tanzania
- mobutu
- man who created socialist economy and nationalized businesses in zaire
- muslim
- sudan: 5% are christian, mostly ___
- Nigeria
- most populous country in Africa
- boers
- dutch peasants
- kabila
- man who led zaire after mobutu died
- Kabila
- man who renamed zaire Democratic Republic of Congo
- sharia
- ____ has been adopted by 1/3 of Nigeria's 36 states
- british
- winners of boer war
- somalia
- country where black hawk down took place
- secular democracy
- nigeria's offical form of govt
- kenya
- country w/ mau mau rebellion
- kenya
- country that has one of the highest population growth rates in the world
- janjaweed
- Arab militia that attack villages, have killed thousands
- 1976
- year of situation in entebbe
- Nelson Mandela
- man with the ANC (African National Congress)who got rid of apartheid
- belgium congo
- name of congo free state after belgium took over
- sudan
- country that has oil in the southern part, refineries in the north
- liberia
- country that has a constitution modeled after ours
- 1994
- year Rwandans fled into eastern Zaire b/c of civil war
- maathai
- peace prize winner, from kenya
- Gabon
- SS country that has oil, now a member of OPEC, gold, uranium, coffee, and cacao
- Mbeki
- today's president in south africa
- Mobutu
- man who took over Zaire in 1965
- afrikaans
- language that is a mix b/w boers and africans
- south
- all of uganda's economic growth is in the ____
- Desmond Tutu
- won Nobel Peace Prize, from south africa
- ANC
- political party in south africa that protested apartheid
- kenya
- country that Used to be the model for political stability
- Menelik II
- leader of Ethiopia who fought french
- mobutu
- man we gave aid to b/c he wasn't Communist- Took money for himself
- ujamaa
- type of socialism created by nyerere
- Cameroon
- SS country with lots of crops and resources
- the great trek
- term for when boers left capetown in covered wagons
- 1991
- year civil war broke out in somalia
- israel
- other country involved in entebbe
- christian
- south nigeria religion=
- France
- european country defeated by Ethiopia
- Cecil Rhodes
- PM of Cape Colony
- 1652
- year Dutch established Cape Town
- 1989
- year National Islamic Front took control of Sudan in a coup
- sanctions
- methods the world used to get mandela freed
- 1990
- year president of liberia was overthrown in a coup which led to a civil war
- sudan
- country with a long-standing civil war
- libya
- 90% of country is desert
- diamonds
- sierra leone has a lot of _____ (minerals)
- Congo Free State
- name of country owned by leopold II
- National Islamic Front
- Extremist Islamic group that wants to create the first African all-Islamic nation; have their own version of Sharia
- 1993
- year Eritrea gained independence, so now Ethiopia is landlocked
- charles taylor
- Would send money to Sierra Leone (they had a civil war) to support rebels to get diamonds
- 2003
- year moi was forced out of kenyan presidency
- nigeria
- country with a one crop economy
- Afrikaaner
- descendant of a Boer
- F.W. de Klerk
- elected by whites, wanted to end apartheid in South Africa
- Adowa
- March 1, 1896 battle
- Cecil Rhodes
- wanted to connect all of east Africa with a railroad (under the British empire) "Cape to Cairo" Railroad
- Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta
- MEND=
- Boer War
- war between British and boers, rhodes wanted their gold and diamonds
- libya
- north african country with lots of oil; member of OPEC
- boers
- dutch people who were offered free transportation to south africa
- somalia
- country that is mostly Islamic (over 90%)
- biafra
- country created by ibo tribe but never recognized by the world
- 1963
- year kenya gained independence
- liberia, sierra leone
- two countries known for letting freed slaves in
- 1822
- year former American slaves in America wanted to go back to Africa
- nigeria
- They are rich in oil, but they can't even make gasoline
- moi
- kenyan president that burned up ivory, later became corrupt
- Orange Free State, Transvaal
- two Boer Republics created during the Great Trek
- south africa
- country that leads the world in gold production
- hutus
- majority in rwanda
- charles taylor
- Arrested and now in the Netherlands on trial, former president of liberia
- language, slavery
- british let boers keep their ____, but made them give up ____
- serengeti
- tanzania equivalent to kenya plain
- nigeria
- 1/5 people in sub-Saharan Africa live in this country
- ibo
- tribe that wanted to secede from nigeria
- masai
- nomadic herders, cattle
- sudan
- largest country in Africa (geographically)
- Mussolini
- his economic policy wasn't working, so he decided to invade Ethiopia in 1936
- 1991
- end of military rule in ethiopia
- Kikuyu, Luo
- two main tribes in kenya
- muslim
- north nigeria=
- sharia
- strict islamic law
- zaire
- country mobutu led
- Haile Selassie
- emperor of Ethiopia, fled the country when mussolini invaded
- liberia
- colony formed (now a country) for ex-slaves
- apartheid
- hierarchy of all races
- somalia
- country with no govt, anarchy- warlords control everything
- masamara
- plain in kenya, continues through tanzania
- NElson Mandela
- first black president in south africa
- sudan, mauritania
- countries where there is modern day slavery
- Kalahari Desert
- planned location for south african nucleur detonation
- Sudan people's liberation army
- sudanese rebel group
- kenya
- country that is mostly christian (66%)
- first
- # South Africa was to dismantle nuclear arms
- lord's resistance army
- joseph kony's army
- british
- sierra leone was once a ____ colony
- 1984
- year ethiopia had an extended drought (under Communist government who didn't want to admit what was going on—didn't help) people starved to death