Africa vocabulary part II
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| animism | The belief that bodies of water, animals, trees, and other natural objects have spirits
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| apartheid | South Africa's government policy of seperation of races that was abandoned in the 1980s and 1990s; apartheid means "apartness"
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| Berbers | members of an ethnic group who are native to North Africa and speak Berber language
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| Boers | Africaner frontier farmers in South Africa
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| civil war | a conflict between two or more groups within a country
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| dialects | a regional variety of a language
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| dictator | a ruler who has almost absolute power
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| enclaves | a small territory surrounded by foreign territory
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| exclaves | a part of a country that is seperated by territory of other countries
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| fallahin | Egytian farmers who own very small plots of land
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| free port | a city in which almost no taxes are placed on goods
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| griots | a west African storyteller
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| Organization of African Unity | an organization that tries to promote cooperation among African countries
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| sanctions | economic or political penalties imposed by one country on another to try to force a change in policy
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| secede | to break away from the main country
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| Swahili | a language widely spoken in areas of Africa near the Indian Ocean (regional language)
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| townships | crowded clusters of small homes in South Africa outside of cities where black South Africans live
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| the veld | open grassland areas in South Africa
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