| A | B |
| monastery | a place where people, especially men known as monks, live a religious life |
| Geez | an ancient Ethiopian language that was once used to write literature and religious texts but is no longer spoken |
| lingua franca | a language used for communication among people who speak differnet first languages |
| privatization | the sale of government-owned industries to private companies |
| multiparty system | a political system in which two or more parties compete in elections |
| Kikuyu | the largest ethnic group in Africa |
| Maasai | a seminomadic ethnic group in Kenya |
| seminomadic | combining nomadic wandering and farming in settlements |
| harambee | a social policy started by Jomo Ken-yetta and meaning "let's pull together" in Swahili |