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Independent Africa
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History
10th Grade
04/08/2007

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trade unions
Definition
Workers' organizations that gave Africans political experience
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one
Definition
Usual number of political parties in an African country
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army (military) leaders
Definition
People who have carried out many coups since the mid-1960s
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socialism
Definition
Most common government and economic system in Africa
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skilled workers
Definition
Type of workers in short supply
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underdeveloped
Definition
Common state of African economies
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apartheid
Definition
South Africa's policy of "apartness," or separation of the races
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the Organization of African Unity (OAU)
Definition
Organization of all the continent's independent states, established in 1963
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Israel
Definition
All African states broke relations with this nation by 1974.
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the EEC
Definition
Many African nations became associate members of this European economic organization.
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the PLO
Definition
The OAU granted observer status to this Arab organization by 1973.
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neocolonialism
Definition
Continued control of former colonies' economies by colonial powers
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ethnic/tribal divisions
Definition
Main stumbling block to African unity
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Nigeria and Ghana
Definition
British colonies where the earliest nationalist parties grew
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industry and agriculture
Definition
Most African economies had a poor balance between these two elements at independence.
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American and West Indian blacks
Definition
The Pan-African movement started with these people.
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the Pan-African Congress
Definition
Meeting open to all black people, not just African governments
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the Lome Convention
Definition
Agreement of 1975 that linked both ex-British and ex-French colonies with the EEC
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the Economic Commission for Africa (ECA)
Definition
A U.N. body for Africa established in 1958
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World War II
Definition
The single most important influence on the rise of African nationalism
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the Brazzaville Conference
Definition
Meeting of 1944 to determine the common future of France and its African colonies
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Ghana
Definition
First independent British Commonwealth Colony; it gained independence in 1957
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the Commonwealth
Definition
The former British colonies all joined this British group
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the Mau Mau
Definition
Terrorist Kikuyu movement in Kenya
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Uganda
Definition
Country that included the kingdom of Buganda
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Ghana
Definition
Country with the first African government in colonial Africa
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the Kikuyu
Definition
Landless Kenyan people who fought a guerrilla war against whites
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Tanganyika and Zanzibar
Definition
Countries that united to form Tanzania
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oil
Definition
Nigeria's most valuable export
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Sharpeville
Definition
South African police fired on an unarmed crowd here in 1960.
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Soweto
Definition
Black town near Johannesburg; site of 1976 riots
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Rhodesia
Definition
Britain opposed this colony's independence, declared by the white minority
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the Gold Coast
Definition
Ghana's former name
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Entebbe
Definition
Site of 1976 Israeli commando raid on a hijacked airliner in Uganda
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sexual relations and marriage between races
Definition
These were outlawed by South Africa's Immorality Act of 1950.
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Nigeria
Definition
In this country, much of the north is Muslim, and much of the south Christian.
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the Central African Federation
Definition
The 1953 union of Malawi, Zambia, and Southern Rhodesia
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Bantustans
Definition
Homelands for South African blacks
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Zimbabwe
Definition
Rhodesia's new name under African rule
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the African National Congress, the Pan-African Congress
Definition
The two South African opposition parties banned in 1960
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Jomo Kenyatta
Definition
Kenya's nationalist leader and first president
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Nelson Mandela
Definition
South African nationalist leader jailed for 27 years and elected president in 1994
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Desmond Tutu
Definition
South African bishop; 1984 Nobel Peace Prize winner
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Charles de Gaulle
Definition
French government leader who supported colonies' independence
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Idi Amin
Definition
Uganda's notorious dictator; forced from office in 1978
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Haile Selassie
Definition
Emperor of Ethiopia; deposed in 1974
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Kwame Nkrumah
Definition
Ghana's nationalist leader and first president
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Leopold Senghor
Definition
Senegalese leader and noted poet
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Sekou Toure
Definition
Guinea's first president elected in 1958; a nationalist leader
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Patrice Lumumba
Definition
1st premier of the Democratic Republic of the Congo - forced from office and killed in 1961
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Julius Nyerere
Definition
First president of both Tanganyika and Tanzania
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Milton Obote
Definition
Uganda's nationalist leader
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Ian Smith
Definition
Prime minister of Rhodesia who declared independence in 1965
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Kenneth Kaunda
Definition
First Zambian president, a nationalist leader
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Felix Houphouet-Boigny
Definition
Leader who became Cote d'Iviore's first president in 1960
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Joshua Nkomo and Robert Mugabe
Definition
African nationalist leaders of Southern Rhodesia
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Albert Luthuli
Definition
South African leader who urged nonviolence; 1961 Nobel Peace Prize winner
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Hendrik Verwoerd
Definition
Apartheid leader assassinated in parliament in 1966
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Eduardo Mondlane
Definition
Former U.S. professor, founder of modern Mozambique nationalism; assassinated in 1969
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Mobuto Sese Seko (Joseph Mobuto)
Definition
Longtime leader who changed his country's name from Congo to Zaire
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F.W. de Klerk
Definition
South African president who began the dismantling of apartheid laws
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by referendum (vote)
Definition
How the French people decided on the colonies' independence
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forced labor
Definition
France outlawed this kind of labor in its colonies in 1946.
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Portugal
Definition
First and last European colonial power
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the Portuguese army
Definition
The Portuguese who rebelled and ended the colonial wars
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Angola, Guinea-Bissau, Mozambique
Definition
The three Portuguese colonies that fought wars of independence
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Guinea-Bissau
Definition
New name of the Portuguese Guinea in 1974
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the Cote d'Iviore
Definition
French colony with the earliest mass political involvement
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Namibia
Definition
Former South West Africa; became independent in 1990
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French Equatorial Africa
Definition
Cameroon + Gabon + Republic of the Congo + Chad + Central African Republic = this territory.
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Somalia
Definition
Eastern country whose starvation and anarchy caught the world's attention in the early 1990s
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the United Nations
Definition
A force from this organization was sent to the Democratic Republic of the Congo in 1960.
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Rwanda
Definition
Country that experienced tragic conflict between its Tutsi and Hutu peoples
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Katanga
Definition
Mining center in the Democratic Republic of the Congo that declared independence in 1960
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Liberia
Definition
A West African peace-keeping force intervened in this country in 1990.
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Eritrea
Definition
Area that became federated with Ethiopia in 1952
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Djibouti
Definition
The former French Somali Coast
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Burkina Faso
Definition
"Formerly Upper Volta, renamed in 1984"
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Angola
Definition
Former Portuguese colony plagued by a 16-year civil war
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Benin
Definition
New name for Dahomey
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