1. Nation-Building in Africa and the Middle East
Chapter 29
World History: Volume II: Since 1500
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2. People, Places, Ideas uhuru African National Congress (ANC)
pan-Africanism
nationalism
negritude
neocolonialism
The Population Bomb (pg. 871)
AIDS
desertification
pan-Islamism
apartheid
South Africa
Nelson Mandela
ethnic genocide
Rwanda
Tutsis
Hutu
Chinua Achebe / Things Fall Apart
Pan-Arabism
Palestine-Israeli conflict
Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO)
Camp David Agreement / Jimmy Carter
intifada
Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC)
Iranian Revolution of 1979
Ayatollah Ruholla Khomeini
Saddam Hussein
Operation Desert Storm
Taliban
Hosni Mubarak
Golda Meir
Islamic feminism*
chador / hijab / burkah

3. Big Questions
What factors can be advanced to explain the chronic instability and internal conflict that have characterized conditions in Africa and the Middle East since World War II?