BJU Cultural Geography Chapter 16 (5th ed.)

Rwanda is following a model of authoritarian rules and pro-business economic policies.

What term refers to when Europeans grabbed pieces of Africa?

What is the term used for when countries gained independence during the twentieth century?

The Kalahari is located in what region?

The people of Madagascar are more closely related to __________ than Africans.

The Southwestern Plateaus make up parts of Angola, Namibia, Botswana, and Zambia.

Ethiopia, Rwanda, Djibouti, Uganda, and Kenya are some of the fastest-growing economies in the world.

What is the most endangered animal in Eastern and Southern Africa?

The capitals of Eastern Africa are some of the lowest in elevation in the world.

What is the strict policy of segregation adopted by South Africa from 1948 to 1997 called?

What is the 4th largest island in the world 250 miles off the coast of Africa.

This country started a national diamond finishing industry.

What is the most common Bantu language?

This is the only place in the world where vast herds of large mammals still migrate.

What is the largest lake in Africa (and the 2nd longest fresh water lake)

The Tutsis are a tribe from Kenya that has members who are noted for their ritual dances and warriors’ skills.

This region covers the extreme north of South Sudan and most of Eritrea.

The Blue Nile is the longer of the two Nile tributaries.

The Darfur region of western Sudan in located in the Sahara.

Most people in sub-Saharan Africa speak only one language.

What language did the Boers develop?

This region includes four independent nations and one principality of France.

 Debt is the biggest economic concern for Africa for the foreseeable future.

The Blue Nile and the White Nile join to form the Nile River

The Highveld, Middleveld, and Lowveld are here.

What desert lies on the Tropic of Capricorn?

Under apartheid, only certain citizens were registered by ethnicity.

Namibia has earned this nickname because of the large number of shipwrecks that have occurred off its northern shore:

What country experienced genocide in 1994 when conflict broke out between the Hutus and Tutsis?

Coffee was first discovered in Madagascar

Who was the famous British explorer who discovered and was a missionary to the people of Africa?

who was released from prison and later elected president; he helped to turn the tide of racism in South Africa?

When the UN withdrew from this country in 1995, anarchy and famine returned.

Many of the African lakes are in what region?

What resource does Lesotho sell to South Africa?

What is the portion of East Africa near Somalia called due to its shape?

What are the names of the two major deserts in Africa (one in the north and one in the South)?

What is Ethiopia's unifying language?

 The Sahara includes parts of Kenya, Tanzania, and Northern Mozambique.

 The “gash” in the earth that runs from the Middle East southward through East Africa is called the Great Rift Valley.