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Box Quiz 6
Global Studies 9 Box Quiz 6
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Jomo Kenyatta | Kikuyu who led the drive for independence and became the first leader of an independent Kenya |
| Patrice Lumumba | First leader of an independent Belgian Congo, was overthrown and assassinated by Moise Tschombe |
| Cecil Rhodes | diamond magnate and first governor of the Cape Colony in South Africa who wished to build a railroad from the Cape to Cairo |
| Mobutu Sese Seko | corrupt dictator of Zaire for 30+ years |
| Biafra | oil rich region in southeast Nigeria that unsuccessfully tried to create an independent country in the 1970's |
| Bartolome de las Casas | Spanish monk whose book criticized the encomienda system and instead suggested Africans for labor on plantations and mines in the New World |
| Steve Biko | South African Anti-Apartheid leader who was beaten to death in jail |
| Leopold Sedor Senghor | Senegalese nationalist poet who contributed to the Negritude movement and became the nation's first president |
| Boer War | struggle between the British and Afrikaaner settlers over control of Northern South Africa, a region with gold deposits |
| Berlin Conference | meeting of European leaders who made rules for the division of Africa in 1884 |