Chapter 4 Questions: World on Fire

Prepared by Shashank, Lee BenGera

Q1. What was the city in which there was no police at a certain point in time?

Answer: Luanda

Q2. Which country is referred to by some Americans as “the darkest corner of Africa”?

Answer: Sierra Leone

Q3. What does the ANC stand for?

Answer: African National Congress

Q4. Unknown to most Americans, this country is one of the most “mysteriously beautiful places in the world”.

Answer: Namibia

Q5. Zimbabwe was once known as?

Answer: Rhodesia

Q6. Zimbabwe’s land owners make up what percent of the total population of Zimbabwe?

Answer: 6% percent

* To put things into perspective (1% native Americans in America today)

 Q7. What percentage of the land in Zimbabwe do the white land owners in Zimbabwe own?

Answer: 70% of the land

 Q8. Who was found dead in Happy Valley?

Answer: The earl of Erroll, Josslyn Hay

Q9. Who are the KCs?

Answer: Kenyan Cowboys

Q10. What is the African tribe in Kenya that is a market dominant minority?

Answer: Kikuyus

Q11. Who was Liberia's President who funded the rebel forces during the country's civil war in the early 1990s?

Answer: Charles Taylor

Q12. What does RUF stand for? 

Answer: Revolutionary United Front

Q13. Who are the Bamileke?

Answer:   Merchant tribe of Cameroon

Q14. What are the countries that usually fall under the loose term West Africa? (Name two.)

Answer: Senegal, The Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Cote d'Ivoire, Ghana, Togo, Benin, and Nigeria.

Q15. what are the two most lucrative sectors of the Lebanese economy?

  Answer: Agriculture and Diamond dealing

Q16. What is the official language of Sierra Leone?

Answer: English  

Q17. Approximately, how much has the United States spent on democracy initiatives for the post-socialist countries of Easter Europe and the former Soviet Union?

Answer: $1 Billion

Q18. Who wrote "The Heart of the Matter", a novel that captured the Lebanese economic dominance?

Answer: Graham Greene  

Q19. What does UNISA stand for?

Answer: University of South Africa

Q20. What are the two general categories that South Africans fall under? 

Answer: Afrikaners, English Speakers