Africa South of the Sahara

Hunter-gatherers

Early Africans were _________or people who moved from place to place to hunt and gather food.

Sanitation

Many rural Africans do not have systems to provide adequate ____, or the removal of waste products.

Lineage

Some ethnic groups in Africa require people to marry outside their own ____ because this larger family group has close blood ties.

Urbanization

Africa south of the Sahara has the world's highest rate of ____ or movement of people from rural areas to cities.

Discrimination

After World War I, many Africans began to protest ____, or unfair and unequal treatment.

Compounds

Although rural African families in the past often lived in ____ surrounded by walls, this is less common now.

Social status

Dancing in Africa often expresses a community's life and may reflect each person's ____ or position in the community.

Refugees

During civil wars in Africa, many people became ______ and fled to other countries.

Plantations

During the colonial period, Europeans forced many Africans to work on large farms called ______

Nationalism

Feelings of ____, the desire to rule themselves and have their own independent countries--led many Africans to demand freedom from European rule.

Griots

In West Africa, stories are told aloud and passed down from generation to generation by people called _____

Nuclear families

In cities, it is more common for people to live in ____made up of a husband, a wife, and their children.

Malnutrition

In many parts of Africa, people suffer from _____ or poor health due to not eating the right foods or not having enough food to eat.

Extended families

In rural areas in Africa, people often live in ____ which include grandparents, parents, and children.

Life expectancy

In some southern African countries, AIDS has lowered _____, the average number of years a group of people can expect to live.

Rite of passage

It is common for Africans to have a special ceremony called a _____to mark a particular stage of life.

Clans

Traditionally, African families have been organized into ___, or large groups of people who are united by a common ancestor in the far past.

Apartheid

White South Africans carried out the policy of _____, or "apartness", by passing laws that separated ethnic groups and limited the rights of black South Africans.