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Africa's most common industry
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Agriculture
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Where did the Niger Congo people migrate from?
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From West to Southern Africa
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What is 2/3 of Africa made up of?
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Desert
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What are the 4 major bodies of water surrounding Africa?
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Indian Ocean, Atlantic Ocean, Red Sea, Mediterranean Sea
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What are two major African rivers?
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Nile and the Congo
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How many countries are in Africa?
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54
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Who are African storytellers?
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Griots
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Name three ancient African kingdoms.
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Sundiata, Great Zimbabwe, Swahili city states
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When was the Berlin Conference?
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1884
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What was the Scramble for Africa?
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European countries flight to occupy African countries
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Uniting people of African descent and fighting racism
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Pan-Africanism
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Who does Henry Louis Gates blame for slavery?
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the African slave traders
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The word "slaves" comes from what word?
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Slavs the Romans took into slavery
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List two ways the Atlantic slave trade differed from older forms of slavery.
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Based on race/color of skin
People traded for money Massive size of trading |
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About how many Africans were enslaved in the Atlantic Slave trade?
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16.5 million
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The peak of the Atlantic slave trade was between which centuries?
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1500-1800
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Dahomey was what?
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slave trading kingdom
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El Mina was what?
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slave trading castle, shipping place
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What settlers began to settle in Liberia in 1822?
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returned American ex-slaves
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Who outlawed slave trade in 1807?
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The British
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"Legitimate trade" meant what?
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taking raw materials from Africa, making products, and selling them back to the Africans
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Colonialism began to end in Africa after which event?
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World War II
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Struggle between US and USSR was called...
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Cold War
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A Metropole is
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the capital city of a colonizing country
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Patrice Lamumba was Prime Minister of what country?
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Congo
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Who invaded the Congo shortly after its independence?
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Belgians
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Where did the Belgians invade when they invaded the Congo?
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Katanga
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Which Europeans first made landfall in South Africa?
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Portugese
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The word "amandla" means what in Zulu?
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Power
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Apartheid began in
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1948
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Apartheid lasted until:
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1994
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The film Amandla is about:
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South African protest songs
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Who was brought to OU to train to be leader of Liberia?
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John Templeton
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Descendents of the Dutch settlers in South Africa are called?
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Afrikaners
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Afrikaners speak which language?
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Afrikaans
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African language families:
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Afro-asiatic
Nilo-Saharan Niger-Congo/Bantu Khoi-san Austronesian |
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First slave ship came to America from Africa in this year:
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1518
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Bulk of slaves came from:
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Benin, Angola, & Congo
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Slavery outlawed:
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1807
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Main players in scramble for Africa:
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governments, private companies, and missionaries
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Kwame Nkrumah
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Ghana
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Sekou Toure
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Guinea
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Patrice Lamumba
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Congo
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First African colony to gain independence from Britain
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Ghana
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Killed by U.S. CIA
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Patrice Lamumba
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South Africa gets independence in this year:
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1910
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Temporary places blacks could stay when working in the city
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Townships
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Apartheid tried to force all Soweto students to learn in Afrikaans in this year:
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1976
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Aesthetics of Nollywood
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Ancestral, Mixed, Contemporary
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How many were killed in the Rwandan genocide?
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800,000 - 1,000,000
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General for the United Nations
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Romeo Dallaire
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Traditional, African court system
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Gacaca
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knitting together/interdependence of economic, technological, socio-cultural, and political forces
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Globalization
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How Islam spread to Africa?
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trade networks, education, and empire building
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first genocide in Rwanda
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1959
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Major helping organization in Rwanda
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Red Cross
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Largest population in US of Somalian refugees
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Columbus and Minneapolis
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More mystical, localized version of Islam
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Sufism
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Ancient centers of Islamic learning
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Timbuktu, Cairo, Cartoon
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What was given Rwanda during the Berlin Conference?
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Germany
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Who was given Rwanda following WWI?
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Belgium
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What is the RPF and when was it formed?
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Rwandan Patriotic Front
1986 |
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What is Nollywood?
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The Nigerian movie industry
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When did Nollywood begin?
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1992
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What is the capital of Nigeria?
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Lagos
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What is the main overtone in Nollywood videofilms?
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religion
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What is Hip-Life?
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Hip-hop beats fused with raps in any Ghanaian language
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Who is the Godfather of Hip-Life?
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Reginald Osei, known as Reggae Rockstone
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What are some issues with hip-life?
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social issues
political - corruption cultural |
