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 |