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List three things you know about Africa.
Bell Ringer List three things you know about Africa. Slave Trade –
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Sub Saharan Africa
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Welcome to Africa Africa
Africa is the second largest and second most populated continent in the world.
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Africa by the Numbers Africa Over 11,700,000 square miles
Over 1,000 spoken languages 1.1 billion people (2nd largest) 54 Nations
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Africa – Geography Largest Cities Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania
Lagos, Nigeria – million Cairo, Egypt –17.1 million Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania Tallest mountain in Africa at 19,340 feet Lake Victoria Feeds the world’s longest river, the Nile at 4,258 miles Sahara Desert Largest desert in the world
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Africa is a Divided Continent with Different Racial & Cultural Zones
Sub-Saharan Africans Black Africans Bantu/Swahili Thousands of tribes and cultures Sahara Desert Northern Africans Light-Skinned Speak Arabic Muslims
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Africa – Colonization Portuguese established coastal colonies in the 15th century Europeans penetrated the African interior by the late 1800’s British & French Missionaries Established primarily Catholic and Protestant colonies
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Africa – Colonization
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Africa – Political Change
By WWI only Liberia & Ethiopia remained free The second half of the 20th Century brought independence Independence did not mean freedom Tribal loyalties often took precedence over allegiance to new nations Anarchy Civil War Dictatorships
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Africa – Today Religion Sub-Sahara – Animism & Christianity
North Africa – Islam
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Colonialism, Slavery, and Religion
Africa – Economy Economics – Highly dependent on mineral resources such as diamonds, gold, platinum, etc. Developing – Most of the countries are classified as developing. Why? Low literacy rates and low per capita GDP’s Religious and tribal differences are responsible for the lack of national unity and economic prosperity Colonialism, Slavery, and Religion
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Poverty 233M (22% of SSA total pop.) of the world’s hungry/undernourished population came from Sub-Saharan Africa. 501M (47% of SSA total pop.) lived on $1.90 a day or less. ($57 a month, $684 a year) Full time-$11.50/hr AFTER TAXES/INSURANCE etc. on a 2 week pay cycle. So what does this look like?
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This is a Pulitzer Prize winning photo taken during the 1994 Sudan famine. Three months after taking the photo the photographer, Kevin Carter, committed suicide due to depression.
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Africa Gallery Walk!!
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Algeria Ethiopia Niger Angola Gabon Nigeria Benin Gambia Rwanda Botswana Ghana Sao Tome and Principe Burkina Faso Guinea Senegal Burundi Guinea-Bissau Seychelles Cabo Verde Kenya Sierra Leone Cameroon Lesotho Somalia Central African Republic Liberia South Africa Chad Libya South Sudan Comoros Madagascar Sudan Democratic Republic of the Congo Malawi Swaziland Mali Tanzania Republic of the Congo Mauritania Togo Cote d'Ivoire Mauritius Tunisia Djibouti Morocco Uganda Egypt Mozambique Zambia Equatorial Guinea Namibia Zimbabwe Eritrea
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