This document contains definitions and descriptions of various terms related to Africa, including: - The African National Congress, a group opposed to apartheid in South Africa. - Other terms defined include veldt, Great Rift Valley, sanction, nonrenewable resource, mediate, desertification, Great Zimbabwe, coup d'etat, pastoralism, plateau, drought, Organization of African Unity, cataract, kinship, urbanization, renewable resource, missionary, savanna, overgrazing, Sahel, Bantu migration, multiparty system, apartheid, Swahili, colonialism, subsistence farming, and cash crop.

1. A group of black Africans opposed to apartheid.

2. African National Congress

3. The flat grassland of Southern Africa

4. Veldt

5. A series of broad, steep-walled valleys that stretch from the Red Sea to Mozambique

6. The Great Rift Valley

7. (a naval blockade) A penalty that is imposed upon a nation that is violating international law.

8. Sanction

9. A resource that cannot be replaced or that can be replaced only over millions of years

10. nonrenewable resource

11. To help find a peaceful solution

12. mediate

13. the process by which land that can be farmed or lived on turns into desert

14. desertification

15. A stone city built by the Shona people, beginning in the A.D. 900’s

16. Great Zimbabwe

17. An overthrow of a government by force

18. Coup d’tat (koo-day-TAH)

19. A way of life in which people raise cattle, sheep or goats as their primary economic activity

20. Pastoralism

21. A raised area of relatively level land

22. Plateau

23. A long period of time without rain

24. drought

25. An organization formed in 1963 to promote unity among all Africans

26. Organization of African Unity ( OAU)

27. A large waterfall

28. Cataract (Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe)

29. Family relationships

30. Kinship

31. The movement of people from the countryside to cities

32. Urbanization

33. A resource that can be used and replaced over a relatively short period of time.

34. Renewable resource 2. Rainforest hardwood 3. Sap from rubber tree

35. A person who goes to another country to do religious or social work

36. Missionary

37. A flat grassland in a tropical or subtropical region with scattered trees and shrubs.

38. Savanna

39. A process in which animals graze grass faster than it can grow back.

40. Overgrazing

41. A semiarid region south of the Sahara

42. Sahel

43. The gradual spreading of the ( early farmers) across Africa over 2,000 years

44. Bantu migration

45. A political system in which two or more parties exist

46. multiparty system

47. An official policy of racial separation formerly practiced in South Africa

48. apartheid

49. A Bantu language spoken in Africa

50. Swahili

51. A system by which a country maintains colonies outside its borders

52. Colonialism

53. A method of farming in which people grow food mainly to feed their households rather than to sell

54. Subsistence farming

55. A crop grown for sale

56. cash crop (cacao beans, coffee beans, sugar cane)