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Geography Africa
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| strategic value | the value of a country's location for nations planning large-scale military action |
| ethnocracy | a form of government in which one ethic group rules over others |
| villagization | forcing rural people to move into towns and work on collective farms |
| harambee | a swahili word which means 'pulling together' |
| pyrethrum | a pesticide made by flowers, specifically a cash crop of kenya |
| malnutrition | disease caused by not having a healthy diet |
| coup | a sudden political takeover |
| ancestor worship | the idea that spirits of the dead will live on if the people still living continue to honor and respect them |
| animism | the belief that gods or spirits can be found in ordinary things such as the sky and trees |
| shifting agriculture | moving crops to new soil every couple of years |
| forage | food for grazing animals |
| deforestation | the stripping of land of its trees, especially prominent in the sahel |
| desertification | a land's loss of all vegetation, especially prominent in the sahel |
| refugee | a person fleeing home to live elsewhere and escape danger or unfair treatment |
| landlocked | a country that has no seaport |
| inland delta | an area of lakes, creeks, and swamps away from the ocean |
| world bank/international monetary fund | agencies of the united nations that gives loans to countries for development projects |
| structural adjustment program | a set of guidelines that is supposed to make a country's economy work better, has been put into effect in nigeria |
| watershed | a central ridge dividing two river basins |
| mercenaries | a person not from a country who fights for this country, fighting involving them existed in democratic republic of congo for years |
| barter | when people exchange goods instead of money |
| enclave | a country completely surrounded by another country, like lesotho |
| white flight | departure of trained white administrators and technicians |
| land redistribution | process where land is taken from those who have plenty and given to those who have little or none |
| apartheid | a system of laws instituted in south africa to keep black americans and whites apart |
| segregation | forced separation of racial groups |
| sanctions | actions that punish a country for behavior unacceptable to the international community of nations |
| colonialism (definition) | the control or governing influence of a nation over a dependent region, 1870-1960 in africa |
| colonialism (role and way of achieving) | by force, sometimes trickery, sometimes by "agreement", racism played a role |
| colonialism (effects) | economic dependency, authoritarian, with lasting impact on economic, social, and political affairs, but led to resistance and ultimately independence |
| berlin conference | 1884-1885, european conference that divided africa into colonial territories, little regard for ethnic groups or culture, many rivers as borders |
| colonial benefits to africans | improved healthcare, new agriculture methods, development of resources, improvements in transportation, communication, and education |
| colonial detriments to africans | disruption of native culture, profits to europe (exploitation), no leadership training to africans which causes civil unrest |
| current happenings in sub-saharan africa | growth of cities, high child and maternal mortality rate, low life expectancy complicated by AIDS, not densely populated |
| AIDS impact on households | spending on education and food falling bc healthcare, over 14 million orphans, those with farms spend less time farming so make less money |
| AIDS impact on education | supply of teachers falling drastically, no secondary school age orphans in school still, only half in primary school |
| AIDS impact on the health sector | over 25 million have died |
| AIDS impact on the economy | companies reduction of production bc less workers, most productive members of society more likely to be diseased |
| nomadic herding | the practice of moving flocks to different pastures throughout the year |
| escarpment | a steep cliff that separates two level areas of different elevations |
| leaching | the dissolving and washing away of nutrients in the soil |
| chaparral | a type of natural vegetation that is adapted to mediterranean climates, small evergreen trees and low bushes or scrub |
| oral history | history passed down by word of mouth |
| savanna | a tropical grassland with scattered trees, located in the warm lands near the equator |
| plateau | an area of high, flat land |
| sahel | the region in africa just south of the sahara |
| land degradation | reduction in the productive potential of the land |
| population density | the average number of people living in a given area |
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