| A | B |
|---|
| Olusegun Obasanjo | christian president of Nigeria |
| Kibaki | current president of Kenya |
| John Garang | leader of SPLA, 2005 VP of Sudan, assass. 3 months later |
| Moi | leader before Kibaki, pres. 24 years, kenya, started off good but became corrupt |
| SPLA | Sudanese People's Liberation Army |
| NIF (national islamic front) | took control of Sudan in military coup 1989, passed constitution on Islamic law 10yrs later |
| Janjaweed | arabic militias attacking black african villages in sudan |
| Haile Selassie | emperor of Ethiopia, pleaded UN help, got none when Italy invaded |
| Clinton | tried to help somalia early 1990s BlackHawkDown |
| Idi Amin | dictator of Uganda 71-79, 300,000 killed genocide |
| Joseph Kony | killed at least 100,000, abducted over 30,000 children for child soldiers, leader of LRA |
| LRA (Lord's Resistance Army) | "Christian" extremist group in northern uganda, displaced 1.2 mil |
| Julius Nyerere | president 70s and 80s Tanzania, collectivized farms and nationalized, very good for a while |
| Kikuyu | major tribe in Kenya (22% of population) |
| Masai | fierce tribe in tanzania and kenya |
| hutu | big tribe in rwanda, controlled by tutsi when belgium ruled them |
| tutsi | smaller tribe in rwanda, genocide where 2-2.5 mil died |
| Mobutu | general seized control of govt in 1965, socialist economy |
| L. Kabila | Marxist (commie) led rebel army in civil war in zaire, won, called it DR Congo, ass. in Jan 2001 |
| Joseph Kabila | son of L. Kabila, won recent democratic election |
| Doe | president of Liberia in 1980s, not very good prez, overthrown during civil war, death |
| Charles Taylor | Liberia - former rebel leader from civil war elected pres. in 1997, incredibly corrupt, UN accused of war crimes. fled to nigeria, now in Hague |
| Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf | just elected president last year of Liberia |
| Ibo | tribe that wanted to secede from Nigeria and create "Biafra" (never happened) |
| Ken Saro-Wiwa | writer, environmentalist, 1995 executed by military controlling Nigeria, world protested |
| MEND | Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta |
| Cecil Rhodes | P.M. of cape colony in South Africa, "Cape-to-Cairo" Railroad, 1800s |
| ANC - African National Congress | black African group wanting equality, created in 1912 |
| Nelson Mandela | leader of ANC, sentenced to life in prison in 1964, pres of SA after deKlerk |
| Desmond Tutu | Anglican Archbishop who called for peaceful change, Nobel Peace Prize, SA |
| F. W. deKlerk white SA | elected pres 1989, got rid of apartheid and freed Nelson Mendela WOW |
| Qaddafi | leader of LIBYA |
