Africa Vocabulary

A religious belief that bodies of water, animals, trees, and other natural objects have spirits.

• Apartheid

• Animism

• Swahili

• Souks

The South African government policy of separation of races, which began to disappear in the 1980s.

• Dialect

• Griots

• Apartheid

• Ergs

Land area with very little precipitation.

• Regs

• Ergs

• Souks

• Desert

A Bantu language that is widely spoken in areas of Africa.

• Griots

• Malaria

• Ivory

• Swahili

The old fortress and central part of some North African cities.

• Casbah

• Souks

• Fellahin

• Gorge

A variation of a language.

• Swahili

• Dialect

• Ergs

• Regs

Marketplaces in North Africa.

• Regs

• Ergs

• Souks

• Griots

A grain crop that can survive drought.

• Sorghum

• Ivory

• Sahel

• Regs

Great "seas" of sand dunes in the Sahara.

• Regs

• Souks

• Fellahin

• Ergs

Egyptian farmers who own very small plots of land.

• Griots

• Swahili

• Fellahin

• Pharaohs