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Chapter 4 Questions: World on Fire
Prepared by Shashank, Lee BenGera
Q1. What was the city in which there was no police at a certain point in time?
Answer: Luanda
Q2. Which country is referred to by some Americans as “the darkest corner of Africa”?
Answer: Sierra Leone
Q3. What does the ANC stand for?
Answer: African National Congress
Q4. Unknown to most Americans, this country is one of the most “mysteriously beautiful places in the world”.
Answer: Namibia
Q5. Zimbabwe was once known as?
Answer: Rhodesia
Q6. Zimbabwe’s land owners make up what percent of the total population of Zimbabwe?
Answer: 6% percent
* To put things into perspective (1% native Americans in America today)
Q7. What percentage of the land in Zimbabwe do the white land owners in Zimbabwe own?
Answer: 70% of the land
Q8. Who was found dead in Happy Valley?
Answer: The earl of Erroll, Josslyn Hay
Q9. Who are the KCs?
Answer: Kenyan Cowboys
Q10. What is the African tribe in Kenya that is a market dominant minority?
Answer: Kikuyus
Q11. Who was Liberia's President who funded the rebel forces during the country's civil war in the early 1990s?
Answer: Charles Taylor
Q12. What does RUF stand for?
Answer: Revolutionary United Front
Q13. Who are the Bamileke?
Answer: Merchant tribe of Cameroon
Q14. What are the countries that usually fall under the loose term West Africa? (Name two.)
Answer: Senegal, The Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Cote d'Ivoire, Ghana, Togo, Benin, and Nigeria.
Q15. what are the two most lucrative sectors of the Lebanese economy?
Answer: Agriculture and Diamond dealing
Q16. What is the official language of Sierra Leone?
Answer: English
Q17. Approximately, how much has the United States spent on democracy initiatives for the post-socialist countries of Easter Europe and the former Soviet Union?
Answer: $1 Billion
Q18. Who wrote "The Heart of the Matter", a novel that captured the Lebanese economic dominance?
Answer: Graham Greene
Q19. What does UNISA stand for?
Answer: University of South Africa
Q20. What are the two general categories that South Africans fall under?
Answer: Afrikaners, English Speakers