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Apartheid the legal separation of races, once practiced in South Africa. Arable land farmable land, land good for farming Ashanti The modern country of Ghana is the home of this powerful ethnic group. Cultural Assimilation giving up one’s own customs and adopting those of another culture. Bantu A general name for 300-600 ethnic groups that migrated in many different waves from the region just south of the Sahara Desert to the central and southern parts of the continent beginning over 2000 years ago. Language Bantu. Conflict diamonds diamonds that are mined and sold to fund wars and rebellions Deforestation the destruction of trees and other vegetation, problem in Sahel and the rest of Africa Desertification the process of desert expanding into areas that had formerly been farmland Drought periods of little rainfall, Sahel has had problems with this Epidemic a temporary spreading of disease F. W. deKlerk South African president, agreed to allow the African National Congress to operate as a legal party and he released Nelson Mandela from prison Green Line the place where the cultivated land ends and the desert begins. Homelands special reserves with little land and no resources Imperialism the policy or practice of extending a state's (country’s) rule over other territories; the system of acquiring colonies to provide raw materials for a stronger country Indirect rule A policy that allowed Europeans to govern the colonial empires mainly in Africa and Asia through the existing\traditional government structures. Nelson Mandela the African National Congress and the Pan African Congress leader Pan African movement reaction to the experiences of colonial rule and the desire for people of the African descent to think of Africa as a homeland Pandemic a spreading of a disease over a large country, continent, or the whole world Rainforest areas with hot, humid, tropical climates and dense, evergreen forests with trees hundreds of feet tall Sahara Desert the largest desert on planet Earth that means “empty quarter”. Sahel a dry, semi-arid region south of the Sahara Desert that is slowly turning into desert land. It serves as a transition between the desert to the north and the grassland/rain forest to the south. It stretches from the Atlantic Ocean to the Red Sea. Savanna a vast area of both grassland and more tropical habitats in the middle of Africa closer to the equator. Subsistence farming growing food to provide for the sustenance of your family Swahili community developed along the coast of East Africa when Arab and Persian traders looking for markets began to settle there with the local Bantu-speaking population Townships a racially segregated urban area outside of a city