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Looking at a map of South Africa between 1795 and 1910, which country was in control of South Africa?

• Belgium
• France
• England
• Italy

Who was F. W. de Klerk?

• Fought against apartheid and was put into prison.    First black president of South Africa.  
• South African college professor and prime minister of South Africa.  Creator of apartheid. 
• South African president who ended apartheid.  Freed  many blacks who were imprisoned for protesting the apartheid government.  
• South African Rugby Team Captain.  Became a symbol of unity between the blacks and whites of South Africa.  

What does ANC stand for?

• African National Convention - meeting where South African leaders and politicians gather every year to discuss ways to heal the racial divide.  
• Association of Native Cultures - a cultural festival that celebrates the different ethnic groups that were present in South Africa before Europe controlled it.  
• African National Congress - a political party formed in 1911 to give blacks a voice in the South African government.
• Awesome New Contagion - a recently discovered bacterial infection that causes projectile vomiting in students who don't pay attention in social studies class. 

If a country has a high literary rate, the country is usually

• More developed/Richer
• Less developed/Poorer

Who was Nelson Mandela?

• First black president of Somalia
• First black president of Libya
• First black president of South Africa
• First black president of Kenya

How could the political situation in Nigeria be described today?

• The government is still unstable.
• Nigeria currently has a government that is able to work efficiently with its problems.
• Ghana took over Nigeria several years ago.
• Nigeria never got its independence over Great Britan

What type of government does Kenya have after it gains its freedom from Great Britain?

• Democratic Republic
• Parliamentary Democracy 
• Theocratic Republic 
• Presidential Democracy

How did Kenya become an independent country?

• The Indians took over and killed every British man.
• The British are still in Kenya and it isn't independent.
• The British left the country in large numbers and the Africans took Kenya back over.
• The British segregated against Africans so they decided that they should stay in power forever so no black man will be the leader of Kenya.

The desire for self-determination in African nations became a powerful force for change immediately afer

• World War II
• The Boer War
• revolutions in Russia and France
• the end of the Cold War

Since Nigeria's independence in 1960, its government has frequently shifted between democracy and military dictatorship.  This situation suggests that

• some Nigerians support British colonialism.
• international problems are more easily solved by military governments.
• democracy is often difficult to establish in nations where little democratic tradition exists.
• economic prosperity is frequently achieved by military governments.