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Nuclear family |
family unit husband wife and children. Rapidly replacing the extended family unit in Africa. |
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clan |
the large group of people descended from the same ancestor |
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patriarchal |
family headed by male family member |
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animist |
religious belief in which nature and objects such as animals and mountains have spirits. When the Europeans colonized Africa colonies cut across and merged this with Muslim and Christians. |
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poaching |
illegal hunting. |
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conflict diamonds |
mined in war-torn areas and used to finance wars |
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cash crop |
farm crop grown to sell or trade rather than used by the farm family. (French colonized Africa and changed subsistence farming into this for exporting) |
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subsistence farming |
small-scale agriculture that provides for the needs of a family or village. |
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commercial farming |
growing large quantities of crops or livestock to sell for a profit |
