Africa Test
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- Apartheid
- A racial separation
- Jomo Kenyatta
- Wanted reform from the British and became President in 1964
- African Art
- (masks and sculptures) Religious and practical purposes and to pay tribute to ancestors
- Blacks under the Apartheid
- Black voters were removed, and were forced out to move from cities to rural townships
- Oral Literature
- Passed on from generation to generation
- Mediterranean Climate Zone
- Southern tip and northern coast, mild climate and fertile soil (Lot of farming)
- Colonization
- A geographical area politically controlled by a distant country.
- Subsistance Farmer
- A farmer who grows as much as he and his family can eat.
- Emperor of Ghana
- Owned all the gold mined in his empire and built a strong army to help maintain power.
- Early Written Language
- Ancient Egypt: Hieroglyphics
- Masks
- African art that represents a spirit
- Post Colonial literature
- Africans wrote in both western languages, and in traditional African languages.
- Sculptures
- Wood carvings and bronze heads
- F.W de Klerk
- He was the President before Mandela and released Mandela from prison and worked on the New Constitution.
- Steven Biko
- Formed the Black Consiousness and inspired youth of Sowe to take action. Was murdered in 1977
- Desserts
- 40% of Africa, the Sahara, Kalahari, and Namib. Temps as high as 130˚F. A lot of trading takes place in the dessert.
- Tropical Wet Climate Region
- Rainforests around the equator, hot and humid year round. 60-120 inches of rainfall a year, soil is poor
- Imperialism
- The complete control of a weaker nation's social, economic, and political life by a stronger nation.
- Precolonial literature
- Many stories that are parables using animals to explain ideas.
- Colonial African Literature
- Slave narratives
- Berlin Conference
- The European countries were fighting to take over Africa and they ended up splitting Africa into different boundaries.
- Tropical Wet and Dry Climate Region
- Largest climate zone, Savanna, and unpredictable rainfall
- Nelson Mandela
- Released from prison in 1964. Became president after the country's first multiracial elections.