| A | B |
| Kwame Nkrumah | African Leader in Ghana, US Educated, led the Pan-African movement, economic plan "tanked" due to lack of treasury |
| Apartheid | Legal Separation of races in South Africa |
| Nelson Mandela | 1st Black President of South Africa, 1994, spent 27 years in jail, national hero |
| Rwanda genocide | Genocide in Rwanda, Hutus (majority) vs. Tutsis (minorities), 800,000 Tutsis are killed by Hutus |
| Darfur/Sudan | Sudan, Government backed "genocide" of Black Africans, Christians, etc. |
| Pan-Africanism | movement in Africa to unify the continent of Africa into the "country/community" of Africa |
| Afrikaners | Ethnic group in Southern Africa descended from almost equal numbers of Dutch, French and German settlers whose native tongue is Afrikaans |
| Jomo Kenyatta | first Prime Minister (1963–1964) and President (1964–1978) of Kenya. He is considered the founding father of the Kenyan nation. |
| Partition | Division of India; set off mass migrat5ions of Muslims feeling India and Hindus fleeing Pakistan |
| Tribalism | loyalty to "tribe" over nation/country; has led to many civil wars in Africa, |
| ANC | Africian National Congress; used violence and boycotts and nonviolent civil disobience to oppose apartheid |
| Desmond Tutu | civil rights activists convinced foreign nations and businesses to limit trade and investment in segregated South Africa |
| F.W de Klerk | President of South African in 1989; legalized the ANC, released Mandela. |
| deforestation | destruction of forests, especially tropical rain forests for lumber or clearing land for farming |
| desertification | changeover from farmable land to desrt, caused mostly by humans such as overgrazing, cutting down forests, etc |
| One party system | is a type of party system government in which a single political party forms the government and no other parties are permitted to run candidates for election. |
| opposition | against |