| A | B |
|---|
| coup d'etat | an overthrow of a government by force |
| OAU | Organization for African Unity |
| mediate | help find a peaceful solution |
| ECOWAS | Economic Community of West African States |
| subsistence farming | growing food mainly to feed your own family, rather than to sell it |
| cash crop | a farm crop grown only for sale |
| rite of passage | a special ceremony that marks the transition from one stage of life to another |
| Yoruba | an ethnic group in southwestern Nigeria |
| Igbo | an ethnic group in southeastern Nigeria |
| Hausa | the largest ethnic group in Nigeria |
| Wole Soyinka | a Yoruba man born in Nigeria who was the first black African to win the Nobel Prize in literature in 1986 |
