SSA PPT associated notes
1. Timbuktu – approx.. 1200 years old, built in 800s – library – Islamic center of learning, edge of
desert – domesticate goats and sheep
2. Great Western Wall – 9 miles north to south – stop degradation of soils – economy
3. Khartoum – Sudan – confluence of Blue and White Nile – dust storm
4. Harmattan – winds
5. Great Lakes of Africa found in Great Rift Valley – begins in Arabian Peninsual – continental drift,
plate tectonics
6. Cataract waterfalls – makes rivers hard to navigate – Victoria Falls in Africa
7. Rwandan Genocide – Hutu & Tutsi – colonized by Belgium – declared Tutsi superior based on
height, nose size, and eye type – also became cattle herders – Hutus were farmers. Hutus killed
Tutsi. 1994 – 100 days – 100 million people.
8. Serengeti – Circle of Life – mass migration – patter – place – plain and a national park.
Wildebeest, giraffe, lions
9. Cacao – plant – pods – West Africa – economy
10. Global Water Initiative – benefits, long-term, ownership, stop waste
11. Afrikaans
12. Escarpment – cliff – drop off highland to coastal land, Cape Town, Table Mountain
13. Okavango – mass migration – Angola to Botswana – river heads inland; seasonal area similar to
Serengeti
14. Lifestraw- $3 – stops Guinea Worm
15. Big Hole – tourist attraction – mining – keep people interested
16. Witwatersrand – area in South Africa – gold rush in Southern Africa – gold and diamonds
17. Madagascar – 4th largest island, Lemur – indigenous – unique vegetation
18. Apartheid – legal policy in South Africa – Nelson Mandela – solitary confinement – 1990’s
changed – he became 1st black President of South Africa – laws to keep land and wealth in the
hands of white.
19. Kinshasa – DRC – separated Kinshasa and Brazzaville by Congo River – inhibits trade – cataracts
to ocean –
20. Mbuti – forest people – “pygmy”
21. Understory and Canopy of Forest
22. Montane Forests of East Africa
23. Zaire – multiple switches back.