Africa Vocabulary Crossword Puzzle

QUESTIONS LIST:

• boer : the afrikaans word for farmer, was used to describe the people in southern africa who traced their ancestry to dutch, german and french huguenot settlers who arrived in the cape of good hope from 1652.
• mandela : a south african anti-apartheid revolutionary, political leader, and peace activist who served as the first black president of south africa from 1994 to 1999.
• guerrilla : a member of a small, loosely organized army that fights a larger, stronger force.
• inflation : an increase in the price level of goods and services in an economy over a period of time.
• federation : a political entity characterized by a union of partially self- governing provinces, states, or other regions under a central federal government.
• sanction : permission or approval.
• kalahari : a large semi-arid sandy savanna in southern africa extending for 350,000 square miles, covering much of botswana, parts of namibia, and regions of south africa.
• apartheid : a system of institutionalized racial segregation and political and economic discrimination that existed in south africa from 1948 until the early 1990s.
• afrikaner : a southern african ethnic group descended from predominantly dutch settlers first arriving in south africa during the 17th and 18th centuries.
• famine : a widespread scarcity of food, caused by several factors including war, inflation, crop failure, population imbalance, or government policies.
• infrastructure : the basic, underlying framework or features of a system or organization.
• drought : a period of below-average precipitation or rainfall in a given region, resulting in prolonged shortages in the water supply.
• segregation : the institutional separation of an ethnic, racial, religious, or other minority group from the dominant majority.