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Pan-Africanism
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Movement promoting the cultural unity of the people of African heritage in their struggle for freedom.
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Kwame Nkrumah
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Young Ghana nationalist leader of the Gold Coast.
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Mau Mau
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Kikuyu organization that waged a guerilla campaign against British presence in Kenya.
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Robert Magabe
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Most radical guerilla warfare candidate in Rhodesian election of 1980; he won the election.
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apartheid
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Government policy of segregation and an economic exploitation in South Africa.
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Nelson Mandela
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African National Congress (ANC) leader, black lawyer, Nelson Madela felt violence should confront violence.
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Desmond Tutu
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ANC leader who continued to speak out against Apartheid.
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Steven Biko
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ANC leader who continued to speak out against Apartheid.
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F.W. de Kirk
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Elected President of South Africa in September of 1989.
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Jerry Rawlings
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Young air force pilot who led Gahana's takeover, let elections take place & country back to civilian rule.
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Laurent Kabila
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Led Tutsi & anti-Mobutu forces in the city of Kinshasa, took over, vowed to rebuild and stop foreign interference.
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desertification
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Spread of the desert.
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Shaaban Robert
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Father of modern Swahili literature. Was Tanzanien poet, essayist and novelist.
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Wole Soyinka
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First African to win Nobel Peace Prize for literature in 1986, Nigerian playwright and poet.
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kibbutz
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Collective farm in Israel.
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Gamal Abdel Nasser
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Popular, young army officer who emerged as a leader for Egypt in 1952.
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Suez Crisis
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Conflict between primarily Western powers & Egypt over the possession of the Suez Canal in the 1950's.
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Mohammed Mosaddeq
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Iranian nationalist leader who became Iran's Prime Minister in 1951.
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PLO
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Palestine Liberation Organization
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Yasir Arafat
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Palestinian guerilla leader of the PLO during Six Day War.
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Anwar Sadat
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Leader of Egypt upon the death of Nasser in 1970.
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Golda Meir
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Israeli prime minister in the 1970's.
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Camp David Accords
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Peace agreement between Egypt and Israel, mediated by the United States.
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OPEC
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Organization of Petroleum Exporting countries.
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Ayatollah Khomeini
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Conservative Islamic leader who opposed the Shah of Iran's modernization efforts.
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Saddam Hussein
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Driving force of the nationalist Ba'ath Party that seized power of Iraq in 1968.
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