Unit+6+Africa+in+Transition

=Africa in Transition=

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Vocabulary
__Leopold Sedar Senghor__ - led the Negritude Movement __Negritude Movement__ - led by Senegalese poet (Leopold Sedar Senghor) in 1930s. Strengthened Pan-Africanism by encouraging Africans to value their heritage. __Kwame Nkrumah__ - led the Gold Coast to independance in 1957 __Jomo Kenyatta__ - Demanded political and economic reforms from the British, then arrested** __guerrilla warfare__ - small bands of fighters stage hit-and-run attacks against a larger power __secede__ - break away and withdraw, especially as a group, from a country or an organization __democratization__ - accepting many different political parties __socialism__ - system in which the government owns and operates major businesses and controls other parts of the economy __multinational corporations__ - huge enterprises with branches in many countries __ethnicity__ - attachment to one's own ethnic group __nonalignment__ - policy that did not favor either the U.S. or Soviet Union during Cold War __apartheid__ - rigid seperation of races by law in South Africa __alley-cropping__ - method of limiting soil erosion __Economic Sanction__ - cutting off trades with other countries to get them to change their policies __griot__ - storyteller in African societies __Organization of African Unity__ (1963) - organization of independant nations of Africa to support economic cooperation to promote peace __International Monetary Fund__ - oversees global financial system by following macroeconomic policies of its neighboring countries __Robert Mugabe__ - current president of Zimbabwe __Nelson Mandela__ - former president of South Africa __Desmond Tutu__ - first archbishop of South Africa**
 * __Pan-Africanism__ - nationalist movement that began in early 1900s and called for unifying all of Africa
 * __boycott__ - refusal to buy certain goods or services