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

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Creator emgreg
Created March 14, 2008
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emgreg : Changed Afrikaan → language which is a mixture of Dutch and African terms to Afrikaans → language which is a mixture of Dutch and African terms
emgreg : Changed sleeping sickness → cauded by being bitten by tsetse fly and results in pain, weakness, fever, and effects every organ of the body to sleeping sickness → caused by being bitten by tsetse fly and results in pain, weakness, fever, and effects every organ of the body
emgreg : Changed Mongolois → Asians, live mostly in E and S Africa to Mongolodis → Asians, live mostly in E and S Africa
emgreg : Changed chauvinisum → extreme nationalization to chauvinism → extreme nationalization
emgreg : Changed Mongolodis → Asians, live mostly in E and S Africa to Mongoloids → Asians, live mostly in E and S Africa
emgreg : Changed jingiosm → extreme nationalization combined with militarism to jingoism → extreme nationalization combined with militarism
emgreg : Changed North → more arid, wealthier, and Arabic influenced area of Sudan to North (Sudan) → more arid, wealthier, and Arabic influenced area of Sudan
emgreg : Changed Enlglish and Swahili → 2 official languages of Kenya to English and Swahili → 2 official languages of Kenya
emgreg : Changed Zambezi → 4th longest river in Africa to Zambezi (River) → 4th longest river in Africa
emgreg : Changed Ngorongoro → Africa's largest crater to Ngorongoro crater → Africa's largest crater
emgreg : Changed plateau → Africa's main landform to plateau(s) → Africa's main landform
emgreg : Changed Zambezi (River) → 4th longest river in Africa to Zambezi River → 4th longest river in Africa
emgreg : Changed Congo → 2nd longest river in (sub-Saharen) Africa to Congo (River) → 2nd longest river in (sub-Saharen) Africa
emgreg : Changed North (Sudan) → more arid, wealthier, and Arabic influenced area of Sudan to North Sudan → more arid, wealthier, and Arabic influenced area of Sudan
emgreg : Changed 9.5-10 million → # of Africans sent as slaves to the Americas to 10 million → # of Africans sent as slaves to the Americas
emgreg : Changed over 900 million → # of people living in Africa to 900 million → # of people living in Africa
emgreg : Changed 8% → rainforests cover ___% of Africa today to 8 → rainforests cover ___% of Africa today
emgreg : Changed veld → savannas in South Africa to veld → savannas in south Africa
emgreg : Changed Mongoloid → ethnic group primarily located in E and S Africa to Mongoloid(s) → ethnic group primarily located in E and S Africa
emgreg : Changed Niger → 3rd longest river in Africa to Niger (River) → 3rd longest river in Africa
emgreg : Changed Zambezi River → 4th longest river in Africa to Zambezi (River) → 4th longest river in Africa
emgreg : Changed Movement of Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) → group for the dipolutification (?) of the Nigerian Delta to Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) → group for the dipolutification (?) of the Nigerian Delta
emgreg : Changed 1/2 milion → # of slaves sent to the United States to 1/2 million → # of slaves sent to the United States
emgreg : Changed Boers → Butch peasants who settled in South Africa to Boers → Dutch peasants who settled in South Africa
emgreg : Changed Christianity → most wiely practiced religion of the negroid people to Christianity → most widely practiced religion of the negroid people
emgreg : Changed chauvinisum → extreme nationalism to chauvinism → extreme nationalism
emgreg : Changed Numbian Desert → desert in NE Sudan and East Egypt to Nambian Desert → desert in NE Sudan and East Egypt
emgreg : Changed Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda → countries that border Lake Victoria to Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda → countries that border Lake Victoria
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  1. Tanganyika → the elongated body of water which separates DR Congo and Tanzania...deepest lake in Africa - 14 misses
  2. Niger (River) → 3rd longest river in Africa - 10 misses
  3. Zambezi (River) → 4th longest river in Africa - 10 misses
  4. Zambezi River → forms the Victoria falls - 10 misses
  5. Kalahari Desert → desert located in Botswana - 9 misses
  6. sahel → Western part of Africa - 9 misses
  7. Azores Islands → Portuguese islands - 9 misses