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Africa Since WWII
Unit 11 - Africa Since World War II
Term | Definition |
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Nationalist leader who changed the name of the Gold Coast to Ghana | Kwame Nkrumah |
Policy of strict racial separation in South Africa where the white minority ruled over the black majority | Apartheid |
Small plots of land in South Africa under apartheid that were very poor where blacks were relocated to. | Homelands |
Anti-apartheid leader who was imprisoned for 27 years. Became the symbol of the anti-apartheid movement and the 1st black president of South Africa. | Nelson Mandela |
Nationalist leader of Kenya | Jomo Kenyatta |
Movement for unity among all Africans. | Pan-Africanism |
Product that is grown for sale rather than for feeding the population (example: tobacco) | cash crop |
The spread of this disease has been a humanitarian and public health crisis in Africa (particularly South Saharan Africa) | HIV/AIDS |
Loyalty to one's tribe or ethnic group rather than to the nation (a reason for so much ethnic conflict in Africa) | tribalism |
Location of the genocide in 1994 where the Hutu majority slaughtered the Tutsi minority | Rwanda |
Region of the Sudan where African tribal groups were targeted by the janjaweed militias supported by the Arab government headquartered in Khartoum. | Darfur |
Organization in South Africa whose original purpose was to end apartheid | African National Congress |
Incident where South African police shot into a crowd of anti-pass protesters. | Sharpeville massacre |