6. 20 Countries that you need to Know
Morocco
Egypt
Algeria
Libya
Sudan
Ethiopia
Eritrea
Somalia
Kenya
Tanzania
Mozambique
South Africa
Rwanda
Congo DRC
Zimbabwe
Angola
Nigeria
Ghana
Cote D’Ivore
Liberia

7. 10 cities that you need to know
Cairo,
Nairobi,
Mogadishu,
Johannesburg,
Cape Town,
Kinshasa,
Lagos,
Accra,
Casablanca,
Tripoli,

8. 10 cities that you need to know
Cairo, Egypt
Nairobi, Kenya
Mogadishu, Somalia
Johannesburg, S.A
Cape Town, S.A
Kinshasa, Congo DRC
Lagos, Nigeria
Accra, Ghana
Casablanca, Morocco
Tripoli, Libya

9. Barack Hussein Obama Dad was from Kenya and mom was from Kansas, USA parents divorced and Barack was raised by his grandparents in Hawaii

10. Maps: Political / Physical

11. 1. AFRICA has 3 distinct regions
SAHARA DESERT north and ‘horn’
RAINFOREST (jungle) west/central
SAVANNA (grassland) east/southern
KALAHARI DESERT southwest

14. has caused havoc in Africa's most populous country through a wave of bombings, assassinations and abductions - is fighting to overthrow the government and create an Islamic state.

15. Revolutions in Tunisia, Libya and Egypt
People in these countries recently got rid of dictators but there are still many problems
In Egypt the military took control of the government and there is much fighting

16. 2. Africa is mineral rich but much corruption keeps the wealth in the hands of a few

17. 3. AFRICA hasn’t always been ‘underdeveloped’
Before the Europeans took over - Africa had:
Strong organized Kingdoms (Timbuktu, Ghana, Sonhai)
Vast trade networks
Libraries, Islamic learning centers
Tool-making, copper, iron and terra cotta
Agriculture and herding

18. 4. What has been traded in West Africa for centuries
4. What has been traded in West Africa for centuries? Gold, Diamonds, Slaves and salt

19. Islam Muhammad Arabia Medina Mecca Ka’aba Mosque Qur’an Sunni/Shiite
The 5 Pillars
*Faith
*Prayer
*Alms (charity)
*Fasting (Ramadan)
*Hajj (pilgrimage)
Jihad “duty”

20. IMPERIALISM: (Empire building) Europeans taking control of foreign countries: Eventually European countries colonized and then took over almost every country in Africa

22. Apartheid
Laws set up by the European governments that aimed at keeping the races separated and the Africans powerless
Apartheid Laws include:
Blacks can’t vote
Blacks can’t have guns
Blacks can’t marry whites
Blacks can’t go into white areas
Blacks can’t hold political meetings

23. 6. South Africa was the final country to end white rule and apartheid
Nelson Mandela was an organizer of blacks to overthrow white rule
He was jailed for 27 years and finally released in 1990
South Africa finally gave blacks the right to vote in 1992
They chose Mandela for president
Apartheid ended in 1992

24. 7. Diseases of all kinds hinder Africa
Preventable diseases
Cholera
Sleeping sickness brought on by bites from tetse flies
Malaria
AIDS

26. A.I.D.S – Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome
Sub-Saharan Africa is more heavily affected by HIV and AIDS than any other region of the world. An estimated 22.4 million people are living with HIV in the region - around two thirds of the global total. In 2008 around 1.4 million people died from AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa and 1.9 million people became infected with HIV. Since the beginning of the epidemic more than 14 million children have lost one or both parents to HIV/AIDS.1

29. Ebola

31. Buy a mosquito net for $10.00 dollars and save a child

32. Tsetse Flies: Sleeping sickness

33. Somali Pirates

34. 8. Other issues plaguing Africa
Availability to food and clean water
Corruption
Unstable governments
Child soldiers
Pirates in Somalia

35. Poaching
Illegally killing animals to sell just one part

36. 9. Problems in the availability of Food and water

37. Why is this beautiful waterfall in Africa named after a British Queen?
Imperialism
Why is this beautiful waterfall in Africa named after a
British Queen?

38. Imperialism
Colonization: sending people from your country to set up colonies in other lands in hopes of setting up trading posts to eventually get resources
Empire building: simply taking control of weaker countries to get their natural resources (i.e. gold, silver, oil, timber, rubber, etc.)
“The sun never sets on the British Empire”

41. The new Southern Sudan

42. The Conflict
The Darfur conflict is a complex crisis in the Darfur region of western Sudan.
One side of the armed conflict is composed mainly of the Government sponsored Janjaweed, a militia group recruited mostly from the nomadic camel herding, Muslim Arab tribes of northern Sudan.
The other side comprises a variety of rebel groups, notably the Sudan Liberation Movement recruited primarily from the Christian farming tribes of southern and eastern Sudan.

43. Mt. Kilimanjaro

44. The Masai tribe of East Africa