Chapter 15 West Africa

Griot

• widespread hunger

• a storyteller important in West Africa

• Grain grown along the Niger River

• the main source of aluminum

secede

• widespread hunger

• millet

• to desertify

• to break away from the main country

Millet

• the most populous city in West Africa

• grain gown along the Niger River

• to break away from the main country

• early kingdom

desertification

• the spread of desertlike conditions

• The main source of aluminum

• a strip of land

• the belief that natural objects such as bodies of water have spirits

Bauxite

• the spread of desertlike conditions

• the most populous city in West Africa

• grain gown along hte Niger River

• the main source of aluminum

Early kingdom that became rich and powerful around 800

• Ghana

• Liberia

• Georgia

• Lagos

Lagos

• capital of Georgia

• the most populous city in West Africa

• Grain

• holy land

a storyteller important in West Africa

• Griot

• Ghana

• Millet

• Famine

Strip of land that divides the desert from wetter areas

• Forestville

• savanna

• Secede

• Sahel

widespread hunger

• Lagos

• desertification

• famine

• griot