372740343 | African National Congress | group organized to protest apartheid; current ruling party of South Africa | 0 | |
372740344 | Apartheid | literally, 'separateness'; system of legal racial segregation in South Africa | 1 | |
372740345 | Democratization | the process of becoming more democratic | 2 | |
372740346 | Desertification | the spreading of the desert | 3 | |
372740347 | Desmond Tutu | Anglican Archbishop who opposed Apartheid; won 1984 Nobel Peace Prize | 4 | |
372740348 | Divestment | opposite of investment; companies remove assets for financial or ethical reasons | 5 | |
372740349 | F.W. DeKlerk | South African President who worked to make apartheid illegal; released Mandela | 6 | |
372740350 | Green Revolution | a transformation in agriculture utilizing technology to maximize food production | 7 | |
372740351 | Hutus | the largest ethnic group in the Central African states of Rwanda, Burundi & Uganda | 8 | |
372740352 | Jomo Kenyatta | father of Kenya; led independence movement against the British; first president of Kenya | 9 | |
372740353 | Julius Nyerere | leader of Tanzania independence movement | 10 | |
372740354 | Kwame Nkrumah | leader of Ghanan independence movement | 11 | |
372740355 | Mau Mau revolt | uprising by Kenyan rebels against British rule | 12 | |
372740356 | Nelson Mandela | anti-apartheid activist, jailed for 27 years; released in 1990, elected president of South Africa in 1994 | 13 | |
372740357 | Pan Africanism | a movement seeking to unify Africans into a politically unified state | 14 | |
372740358 | Sharpeville Massacre | South African police opened fire on anti-apartheid protesters | 15 | |
372740359 | Tutsis | a minority ethnic group in the Central African states of Rwanda, Burundi & Uganda | 16 |
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