Chapter 23
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Julius Nyerere | President of Tanzania who advocated an African form of socialism |
| Apartheid | a social policy or racial segregation involving political and economic and legal discrimination against non-whites |
| Haile Selassie | emperor of Ethiopia |
| Patrice Lumumba | the first prime minister of the Congo and also helped the Congo gain independence from Belgium; he was liked by the Congolese but not by the U.S. and the government and he was quickly imprisoned and murdered |
| OAU | Organization of African Unity, promoted cooperation among members, supported independence and sough peaceful settlements of disputes |
| FLN | National Liberation Front -- underground movement by Algerian Muslims to gain independence from France. |
| Nelson Mandela | South African statesman who was released from prison to become the nation's first democratically elected president in 1994 (born in 1918) |
| Nkrumah | founder of Ghana's independence, Ghana's First President |
| Muammar al-Gadhafi | dictator of libya |
| General Joseph Mobutu | The leader who changed the name of his country to Zaire; when he was overthrown it became the Democratic Republic of Congo. |
| Jomo Kenyatta | A nationalist leader who fought to end oppressive laws against Africans; later became the first Prime Minister of Kenya |
| Mau Mau | a violent movement against European settlers that eventually led to Kenya's decolonization from Britain |
| Ian Smith | Rhodesian statesman who declared independence of Zimbabwe from Great Britain (born in 1919) |
| Afrikaners | South Africans descended from Dutch and French settlers of the seventeenth century. Their Great Trek founded new settler colonies in the nineteenth century. Though a minority among South Africans, they held political power after 1910. (735) |
| African National Congress | An organization dedicated to obtaining equal voting and civil rights for black inhabitants of South Africa. Founded in 1912 as the South African Native National Congress, it changed its name in 1923. Eventually brought equality (809) |
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