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Mr. Doizer- Africa

a comprehensive set of flash cards of Africa for Mr. Doizer's class

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Desmund Tutu
Anglican archbishop in South Africa who won the Nobel Peace Prize
Idi Amin
Ugandan genocide leader
Biafra
the Ibo tribe wanted to separate from Nigeria and create this state
Greater Somalia
Somalia wants to combine south Ethiopia, Djbuti, and Kenya to create a ____ _____
Atlas Mts.
Africa's largest mountain range
Egypt
"Gift of the Nile"
March 1, 1896
date of the battle of Adowa
Tutsi
minority tribe in Rwanda
ghost house
a kind of jail which involves torture
Desmund Tutu
"If you want peace, fight for justice."<--adapted bumper sticker from this man's quote
marginalize
to render something ineffective
plateau(s)
Africa's main landform
West African Patrol
patrol started by British which freed slaves from ships
Ethiopia and Liberia
2 countries which were never colonized
Mongoloid(s)
ethnic group primarily located in E and S Africa
90
__% of the world's cases of Malaria are in Africa
Ghana
gold or name of king of this ancient civilization
Swahili
a Bantu language which unites East Africa
White Nile
Lake Victoria is the source of this major river
Raid on Entebbe
when Idi Amin took hostages on a plane and Isrealis ended up freeing them (except an old lady)
Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda
countries that border Lake Victoria
Luo
lesser dominant tribe in Kenya
Comoros Islands
islands east of Mozambique
Hutu
majority tribe in Rwanda
Menelik II
won the battle of Adowa against the French
Zambezi (River)
4th longest river in Africa
Tanzania
country where Africa's largest crater is located
gold-salt
Ghana recieved much of its wealth from the ______-_____ trade
river blindness
caused by a parasitic worm transmitted by the black fly
HeHe Uprising
rebellion against the British in Nigeria in the 1890's
Zambezi River
forms the Victoria falls
National Islamic Front
Sudan's ruling Party
Cape to Cairo Railroad
Cecil Rhodes' idea to connect E. Africa
Mubarak
current President of Egypt
Azores Islands
Portuguese islands
desert
largest biome in Africa
Ashanti Empire
African group who fought the British in Ghana in 1874
Scramble for Africa
frenzied effort between European countries to colonize Africa
Afrikaaners
descendant of the Boers
Tanganyika
the elongated body of water which separates DR Congo and Tanzania...deepest lake in Africa
Brazil
Portuguese's most important colony
apartheid
hierarchery system in South Africa
1st woman head of state in Africa
Ellen Sirleaf-Johnson
Madagascar
4th largest island on Earth
Mt. Kilimanjaro
highest mountain in Africa
Drakensberg
cliffs along the SE coast
Lt. Gen. Omar al-Bashir
current President of Sudan
Muammar al-Gaddafi
current President of Libya
Kikuyu
dominant tribe in Kenya
Lake Chad
lake NE of Nigeria
Lake Victoria
largest lake in Africa
53
# of countries in Africa
Niger (River)
3rd longest river in Africa
St. Helena
Napoleon's last prison
Great Trek
journey of Boers north from South Africa
Bantu
largest group of African languages
Umaru Musa Yar'Adua
current President of Nigeria
2
Africa is the ___ largest continent
Mauritania and Sudan
2 countries which still have slavery today (alphabetical order)
New Imperialism
Europe's interest in Africa
900 million
# of people living in Africa
sudan (a term)
savannas North of the equator (stepp grasslands)
Otto van Bismarck
called together the Berlin Conference
Congo (River)
2nd longest river in (sub-Saharen) Africa
Masa Mara
name of the Serengeti Plain in Kenya
Eritrea
country which broke away from Ethiopia in 1993
Ellen Sirleaf-Johnson
current President of Liberia
Joseph Kony
LRA leader
Zanzibar
island part of Tanzania
Leopold II
created the Congo Free State and used it for his own territory
Kibaki
current President of Kenya
Strait of Gibraltar
place where Europe and Africa almost touch
escarpment
a long line of cliffs
Namib Desert
desert located in Namib
sahel
Western part of Africa
Odinga
current Prime Minister of Kenya
Janjaweed
Arab militants in Sudan
Mandingo
people who formed the empire of Mali
1/2 million
# of slaves sent to the United States
sleeping sickness
caused by the tsetse fly...spreads to every organ in the body
Liberia
country founded with the help of American Quakers
Sonni Ali
Songhai's leader who created a bureacracy to help run the government
Schistosomiasis
waterborne disease occuring when people come in contact with larvae carried by snails in infested water
basins
there are 5 _____, or broad, deep depressions in the earth's surface
Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda
countries that border Lake Victoria
720 million
# of people in sub-Saharan Africa
Fulani
African group who rebelled against the Germans in German East Africa in the 1890's
jingoism
extreme nationalism combined with militarism
Mozambique Channel
body of water separating Mozambique and Madagascar
Canary Islands
Spanish-owned islands west of Morocco
70
__% of the world's cases of HIV/AIDS are in sub-Saharan Africa
veld
savannas in south Africa
Caucasoid
ethnic group which makes up 25% of Africa's population
Kalahari Desert
desert located in Botswana
Olduvai Gorge
site in tanzania where the oldest remains of humans have been found
Shariah (Shari'a)
Islamic law
Horn of Africa
eastern peninsula on which Somalia is located
Zimbabwe and Zambia
border the Victoria Falls
Boers
Dutch peasants who settled in South Africa
negroid
ethnic group which makes up 70% of Africa's population
Libyan Desert
desert in SW Egypt
Ethiopia
coffee was 1st discovered here
Mbeki
current President of South Africa
National Islamic Front
party which controls Sudan
wet and dry tropics
climate which sudan and veld are associated
English and Swahili
2 official languages of Kenya
900 million
# of people in Africa
Christianity
most widely practiced religion of the negroid people
Suez Canal
man-made body of water separating Asia and Africa
Ken Saro-Wiwa
Nigerian poet/environmentalist...executed
Mansa Musa
Mali ruler in 1324 who traveled to Mecca, giving gold along the way
savannas
main vegetation of Africa
Timbuktu
Songhai's great center of learning
3,000
# of languages spoken in Africa
Masai
nomadic cattle herders in Kenya
Moi
Kenyan leader who burned $2.5 worth of ivory to show their poachers no-tolerance policy
Carribean and Brazil
besides the US, the rest of the slaves went here
70
__% of HIV/AIDS cases in the world are in sub-Saharan Africa
Mobutu
was President of then called Zaire
8
rainforests cover ___% of Africa today
Nile (river)
longest river in the world
Nigeria
may have the world's 3rd largest population by 2100
Mt. Kenya
second highest mountain in Africa
Germany and Belgium
2 countries who fought to keep their African colonies
Triangular Trade
exchange of goods and raw materials between Europe, Africa, and the Americas
Tanzania
country where the highest mountain in Africa is located
Lord's Resistance Army
"Christian" terrorist group in Uganda
2.5 million
# of people murded in the Rwandan genocide
Kabila
current President of Democratic Republic of the Congo
Cairo
most populous city in Africa
chauvinism
extreme nationalism
north
where the oil refineries in Sudan are located
Guinea worm
caused by drinking contaiminated water and results in blisters and sometimes death
Charles Taylor
former President of Liberia who mutilated children
Nambian Desert
desert in NE Sudan and East Egypt
1960
year marking the biggest turning point for most African nations in their struggle for independence
The Great Rift Valley
giant depression in E. Africa that runs from Jordan to Mozambique
Afrikaans
language in South Africa which is a combination of Dutch and African terms
Julius Nyerere
created Tanzania's social system
Haile Selassie
longest ruling emperor...emporer of Ethiopia into 1970's
Ngorongoro crater
Africa's largest crater
Ian Smith
Zimbabwe's conservative who wanted to prevent black rule
John Garang
rebel leader of SPLA in Sudan...died in helicopter
October 1993
date of Black Hawk Down
Mugabe
current leader of Zimbabwe
Kenyatta
1st President of Kenya...leader during the Mau Mau Rebellion
Sierra Leone
former location for freeing slaves, rich in diamonds, has a bad child army
Sahara
largest desert in the world
Gabon
one of the wealthist countries in Africa
Boer War
war between the British and the Boers in which the British looked like bullies (put Boers in concentration camps)
10 million
# of Africans sent as slaves to the Americas
Kipling
wrote the "White Man's Burden" about the job of whites to educate/populate the world
Middle Passage
two-month-long trip across the Atlantic
Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND)
group for the dipolutification (?) of the Nigerian Delta
coffee
main export of Uganda
Malaria
second most deadly disease in Africa
Cape of Good Hope
southern tip of Africa
Sudan
1st African country to gain its independence
20
sub-Saharan Africa's population will double in the next __ years
Zulu
African tribe who fought the British in South Africa in 1870's-80s
Cecil Rhodes
Prime Minister of Cape Colony
Nelson Mandela
1st black president of South Africa
south
where the oil fields in Sudan are located

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