1. Africa- South of the Sahara
Unit 7

2. Physical Geography
Chapter 20

3. The Great Rift valley…
Landforms that make up south of the Sahara…

4. Escarpment… Cataracts…

5. The Mountains
Mt. Kilimanjaro and Mount Kenya
The kinds of mountains…

6. The Drakensberg Range

7. The water Nearly impossible to navigate the African rivers
Lake Victoria…

8. The Water (cont.)
Lake Chad…

9. The Water (part 3)
Victoria Falls…
Congo River…

10. Savanna…
~1/2 of Africa is Savanna
Serengeti Plain…

11. Climate change in Africa closer to the equator…
Namib Desert and Kalahari Deserts

12. Cultural Geography
Chapter 21

13. Sahel…
Muslim majority and Traditional African Religion

14. The Conflict in Darfur
Arab Muslims vs nonArab Muslims

16. East Africa…
Bantu…
Hutu…
~over 900 ethnic groups

17. 1994 in Rwanda

18. Lingua Franca of East Africa… Christianity and Muslim
~Dominate Religions

19. West Africa Population problems… “The Colonial Era”
Dominant Religions…

20. Central Africa Pidgin and the use of it… Dominant Religions…
~Traditional Religions

21. Southern Africa Drastically limit the population… Apartheid
Dominant religions…
~Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, traditional African religions and Judaism.

22. Nelson Mandela
anti-apartheid revolutionary, politician, and philanthropist, President of South Africa ( )
Influenced by…
“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world”

23. The Region Today
Chapter 22

24. Farming Two thirds of the population is involved in Agriculture
Subsistence Farming…
Pastoralism…

25. Shifting Cultivation…
Slash & Burn Agriculture…
Sedentary Farming…
Commercial Farming…
Cash Crops…

26. OPEC- Nigeria

27. Ecotourism