| A | B |
| dictatorships | a one party system in most of East and Equitorial Africa |
| nomadic hurders | what most people are because the land is too dry |
| years of colonial rule | one of the reasons related to slow political and economical developement |
| the Bantu | people who began migrating about 2,500 years ago into Equatorial Africa |
| community | kind of land ownership in East and Equitorial Africa that is very common |
| Swahili | language in East and Equatorial Africa that has elements from Bantu, Arabic, and Portugese languages |
| ancestral deeds | Bantu epic poems describe these |
| farming | due to more rain, more people in the southern part of the East region do this |
| transportation systems | would help improve and develop the area more |
| cash crops | growing crops to increase your income |
| one-party governments | these coupled with dicatorships have dominated East and Equatorial Africa since the countries' independence |
| Coups | attempted overthrow of a government |
| Civil Wars | these with coups happen a lot due to impatience with governments that can't change quickly |