Africa Vocabulary

South Africa’s government policy of separation of races that was abandoned in the 1980s and 1990s

• Apartheid

• Animism

• Nationalism

• Imperialism

the belief that bodies of water, animals, trees, and other natural objects have spirits

• dialects

• genocide

• animism

• enclave

a generally flat region surrounded by higher land such as mountains and plateaus

• savanna

• basin

• escarpment

• sahel

a regional version of a language

• malaria

• genocide

• ethnocentrism

• dialect

the intentional destruction of a people

• genocide

• imperialism

• nationalism

• animism

an extreme shortage of food

• malnutrition

• famine

• dialect

• apartheid

a small territory surrounded by foreign territory

• Sahel

• enclave

• sanctions

• Middle Passage

the belief that one’s own culture or ethnic group is superior

• animism

• malnutrition

• nationalism

• ethnocentrism

a steep face at the edge of a plateau or other raised area

• mosque

• escarpment

• savanna

• basin

periods when little rain falls and crops are damaged

• famine

• basin

• drought

• malnutrition