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| how many inland states does the subsaharan have? |
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| what are the island nations of the subsaharan |
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| madagascar, cape verde, Sao Tome and Principe, Seychelles, mauritius, french territory reunion |
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| what is unity based on in subsaharan? |
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| similar livlihood systems and shared colonial experience |
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| what kind of region is the ss? |
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| which region is the world's fastest growing region |
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| what percent of the population is less than 15 yrs old in subsaharan |
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| Does the subsaharan have high or low economic output? |
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| what percent was ss's economic output in the global output? |
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| what percent is the population in the world's total of ss |
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| what makes up more than 1/3 of the ss's GNP |
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| what is the pop density of ss |
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| what do you think of when you hear lagos, nigeria |
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| official policy of racial segregation that shaped cities and social relation in South Africa (1948-94) |
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| south african term describing people of mixed African and euro ancestry |
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| what are SS's staple crops? |
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| what type of agriculture is practiced in areas with poorer tropical soils in ss |
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| swidden or shifting cultivation |
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| what is swidden or shifting cultivation |
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| burning natural vegetation to release fertility, then planting indigenous crops, allows fallow periods |
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| what agriculture does the SS export |
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| peanuts(sahel), rubber(liberia), Cotton(Sudan, Central African Republic), cacao, coffee, burundi, palm oil |
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| what does pastoralism have to do with? |
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| where is pastoralism found? |
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| what disease is connected with Tsetse flies? |
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| what is the global pop expected to increase by? |
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| what is SS population projected to increase by 2050 |
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| what percent are younger than 15 |
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what percent are older than 65 in SS? |
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| what percent of people live in cities in the SS |
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| is life expectancy long or short? |
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| what family size is prefered in SS? |
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| what does a large family guarantee in SS |
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| lineage and status, rural life so need kids for labor |
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| the expansion of desert-like condition as a result of human-induced degradation |
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| zone of ecological transition between the Sahara to north and wetter savannas and forest to South |
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| what is life dependent on in the SS |
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| where is the Sahel located? |
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| what is suffering from desertification in the SS |
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| the movement of animals between wet-season and dry-season pasture |
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| what does deforestation cause? |
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| what Movement plants tress in SS |
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| Kenya's Green Belt Movement |
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| what is the SS refered to in terms of geography? |
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| what is the great escarpment? |
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| landform rimming much of southern Africa, impending coastal settlement |
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| what are the watersheds of the SS? |
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| congo, nile, niger, zambezi |
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| what is the climate of SS? |
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| warm year-round, rainfall varies regionally |
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| what is the break-up of the gradually uplifted plateaus in SS? |
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| what vamous valley is in SS |
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| what is a major basin in SS? |
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| what are the 3 african biomes? |
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| tropical forests, savannas, deserts |
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| what contains the 2nd largest expanse of tropical rainforest in the SS? |
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| grasslands that surround central African reinforest belt |
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| what are the deserts in the SS? |
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| what is the northeastern corner of africa that includes Somalia, ethiopia, djibouti, and eritrea? |
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| what states are in teh horn of africa |
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| somalia, ethiopia, djibouti, and eritrea |
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| what 2 things does the SS have a wealt of? |
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| natural beauty and people |
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| by 2005 how many people infected iwth HIV/AIDS in SS |
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| how many dead from HIV in ss |
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| how many orphaned kids from HIV in SS |
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| how many people infected in 2006 AIDS SS |
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| 2.8 million, more than the rest of the world combined |
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| what percent of global AIDS deaths in 2007 in SS |
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| where men or women infected with AIDS more? |
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| what rate can AIDS reduce? |
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| what state in SS has negative RNI |
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| What program is showin success in SS for AIDS? |
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| Uganda's education program |
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| HIV- HUman immunodeficiency virus |
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| virus that takes over cells, replace the DNA with its own code |
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| AIDS- acquired Immune Defeiciency Syndrome |
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secondary infections that invade because the body is weakend
CDC indicator illness appears |
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| life expectancy in SS is decreasing or increasing? |
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| what 2 SS states have highest HIV rates? |
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| South africa is what for the AIDS epidemic? |
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| what percent of world's aids found in SS |
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| How are East Africa's infection trends? |
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| they are stabilizing or declining (5-19%) |
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| West and Central africa have high or low rates of AIDS |
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| how do women bear the brunt of AIDS? |
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61% infected
women take care of the sick |
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| why is SS not recieving AIDS help |
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drugs to expensive
some leaders have been unwilling to directly address their state's problem |
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| what prime minister didn't acknowledge the HIV causes AIDS in SS |
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| Has Uganda's epidemic stabilized? |
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| what president personally motivated people about hte epidemic in Uganda |
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| abstain, be faithful, condomise |
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| not fatal, caused by parasitic worms |
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| permanent hardening and thickneing of the skin |
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| fatal if untreated, caused by parasite carried by tsetse fly |
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| not fatal, caused by parasitic worms carried by snails, victim develops flu and malaria like symptoms, and a rash |
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| which disease is cause by parastitic worms caried by snails? |
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| which disease has flu ike symptoms? |
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| which one is cause by flies? |
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| which one is caused by parasitic worms? |
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| not fatal, caused by parasite carred by black flies, develops eye lesions |
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| which infection is caused by parasites carride by black flies |
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| the quality of life and life expectancy |
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| early euro contact in SS was limited by? |
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| what made it hard for euro to establish colonies in SS? |
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| malaria and other tropical diseases |
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| what made colinization possible in SS? |
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| where did colonization in SS start and then move? |
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| on the coasts and then up-river |
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| what kills one child every (blank) in SS? |
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| malaria kills 1 every 30 seconds |
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| most of the deaths due to malarie are kids under the age of? |
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| what are symptoms of malaria? |
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| how is malaria transmitted? |
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| mosquitos transfer parasites from one person to another |
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| what weapon was associated with early euro encounters in the SS? |
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| an estimated how many slaves where taken from SS to Western hemisphere? |
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| how was SS colonized by the Euro civilization? |
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| through the bErlin Conference |
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| what was the berlin conference? |
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| gathering of 13 countries in 1884 in which SS was carved u and traded around |
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| what was the result of the berlin conference? |
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| what was a major conflict for SS |
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| genocide between Hutus and Tutsis |
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| what was the Sudan(darfur) conflict? |
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| ethnic conflict between gov-backed ARab nomads and non-arab black sedentary farmers |
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| structural adjustment programs |
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| controversial economic measures designed to reduce gov spneding and encourage private sector initiatives |
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| who uses structural adjustment programs |
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| what do structural adjustment programs usually trigger? |
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| cutbacks that affect the poor |
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| what is the poorest and least developed region in the world? |
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| what does the SS have roots of? |
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| what depopulated many areas in the SS? |
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| what did colonization result in, in SS? |
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| failure to build infrastructure |
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| very corrupt, failed policies |
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| a state where corruption is so institutionalized that politicians and gov bureaucrats siphon off huge percentage of coutnry's wealth |
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| who does the SS trade with? |
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| China, India(growing), and Asia and US |
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| does the SS have a high or low conectivity? |
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| Does SS have more aid or more investment? |
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| what discourages investment in SS |
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| poverty and political instability |
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| do most countries in SS strive or struggle? |
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| where in the SS is it well-developed well-balanced industrial economy? |
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| what does South Africa develop? |
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| where in SS is the largest oil reserves? |
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| Nigeria, but a large pop causes it to struggle |
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| Sahel, the horn, and the SE |
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| what are the reasons for optimism in SS |
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| areas for farming, signs of declining birth rates, some wars ended, improving infrastructure |
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| as a region, what is the unifying themem of the SS |
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| similar livelihood and shared colonial experience |
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| where is desertification the most severe in SS |
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| what animal is not found in the SS |
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| how did great escarpment effect coasstal settlement? |
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| what is the problem with drugs for HIV AIDS |
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| SS has a young or old population? |
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| who didn't recieve african territory in the Berlin conference? |
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| what is not an element or characteristic of apartheid |
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| non-whites where enslaved |
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| what describes SS physical environment? |
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| vast elevated plateaus that are higher in eastern Africa and lower in western africa |
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| what trees are not included as the vegetation in SS? |
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| what is not a reason for large fams in SS |
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| what is not a successful strategy to prevent furthur spread Of AIDS |
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| increased access to generic drug therapies |
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| what is not a problem faced by cities in SS |
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| proliferations of small cities with none getting too much larger than the others |
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| what is a non-unique language to SS |
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| what crop is not exported by SS |
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| what is kwaito of South Africa |
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| post-apartheid political music |
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| until the discover of (blank) about 1.2 of euro died from disease in SS/Africa |
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| who does not qualify easily for international huminatarianism aid because they stay within the boundaries of their coutnry orgin? |
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| internally displaced persons |
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| what other country has low life expectancy like SS |
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