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.