African Unit Review
History 1
• Ghana• Mali• Songhai
History 2
• Europeans began taking Africans as slaves to the Americas
History 3
• Depopulation (West Africa particularly)• Economic damage• Development slowed
History 4
• Berlin Conference in 1884-85 in Germany to divide the continent of African in spheres of influence (colonies).
History 5
• Partitioning caused civil war, ethnic conflict, artificial boundaries, poor example of democracy and therefore dictatorships
History 6
• After WWII but mainly in the 1960s and 1970s
History 7
• Great Britain & France
History 8
• Dutch (the Netherlands)
History 9
• The separation of blacks & colored (Indians & other Asians) people from whites in South Africa
• Black South Africans had much of their rights and land taken away
• Purpose was so the white minority could maintain control of the country and all its natural resources
History 10
• The first democratically elected and first black president of South Africa
• Freedom fighter, member of the ANC• One of the greatest men to ever walk the face
of this earth.
History 11
• President of South Africa who released Mandela from prison and worked with him to make South Africa a democratic nation.
• He & Mandela won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1993
History 12
• First president of an independent Kenya
Government 1
• Autocratic• Democratic• Oligarchic
Gov 2
• Unitary – most every country• Federal – US/India• Confederation – UN, EU, OPEC
Gov 3
• Presidential• Parliamentary
Gov. 3 cont’d
• Presidential – leader is elected separately from the legislature and answers to the people
• Parliamentary – people elect legislature and legislature chooses leader. Leader answers to legislature. Title is Prime Minister
Gov 4
• Many possible answers – several political parties, low level of corruption, free elections, military doesn’t control country.etc. etc
Gov 5
• Many possible choices – one party rule, no or few citizen rights, corruption, civil war, etc. etc.
Gov 6
• South Africa• Kenya• Ghana• Botswana• Mauritius (where I wish I was right now – no
offense)
Econ 1
• Command – government controls• Market – consumer controls• Traditional – ancestors control
Econ 2
• Mixed is the most common• Know about the economic continuum
Econ 3
• Command – government• Market – consumers• Traditional – you do what your ancestors did
Econ 4
• Government does not invest in human capital or technology therefore the countries many resources do not benefit Nigeria (or other similar countries) like they should.
• Plentiful natural resources do not make a country wealthy, investment in human capital does
Econ 5
• If you invest in the children/education/human capital - you can do great things!!!!!