| A | B |
|---|
| Desertification | Turing semiarid land into desert land |
| Leaching | Heavy rain that wash away the nutrients in soil |
| Kilimanjaro | Highest volcanic peak on Africa |
| Savanna | Grasslands of Africa where big game animals are found |
| apartheid | a South African policy of complete separation of the races |
| genocide | deliberate killing of an ethnic or religious group |
| Imperialism | control by one country of the political economic or cultural life of another country or region |
| Pan-Africanism | nationalist movement that began in the early 1900's and called for the unifying of all of Africa |
| Great Rift Valley | the 4,000 mile split in the eastern section of the African continent |
| escarpment | steep cliffs dividing the plateau from the coastal plain |
| Kilimanjaro | Highest volcanic peak on Africa |
| Bushman | primitive group of people who live in the Kalahari Desert and speak the "Click" language |
| Sahel | The area in Africa in danger of becoming desert land |
| "Dark Continent" | what Europeans called Africa because it was unknown to them |
| Tsetse fly | insect in the tropical rainforest causes sleeping sickness |
| Mosquito | Insect in the tropical rainforest that carries Malaria |
| Cultural Diversity | Variety of customs, ideas, and ways of living among the people within a region or nation |
| Matrilinial | describes a family in which children trace their family line through their mother |
| Tribalism | loyalty and devotion to one's tribe, as opposed to one's nation |
| Tribe | group of related families who recognize a common ancestor, speak the same language and share common traditions and beliefs |
| Brain Drain | When the young healthy men were taken from Africa for the slave trade leaving a shortage of potential professionals making it difficult to modernize |
