Africa Study Guide

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Liberia 9x 12.5% stumper $688 avg DJ:8 FJ:1

DJ $200 1986 Country founded in 1821 as haven for liberated American slaves

DJ $600 1988 Francis Scott Key was a member of the society that founded this African country

DJ $1,600 DD 2003 This west African nation's flag bears a star on a blue background, & red & white stripes

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South Africa 7x $500 avg J:1 DJ:5 FJ:1

DJ $200 1995 F.W. de Klerk revealed that this country built 6 crude atomic bombs, but destroyed them

DJ $800 1988 Country which has almost half of all the telephones on the continent

DJ $1,000 1988 Only African country totally surrounded by another is Lesotho, which is surrounded by this

Morocco 5x $767 avg J:1 DJ:2 FJ:2

J $100 1985 Where you would take a ride on the Marrakesh Express

DJ $1,000 1990 Western Sahara is claimed & occupied by this North African country

FJ 2006 In November 2005 leaders of Spain & France joined in celebrating the 50th anniversary of this country's independence

Ethiopia 4x $667 avg J:1 DJ:2 FJ:1

J $400 1987 After mistakenly signing treaty agreeing to Italian control, this country defeated Italian army in 1896

DJ $800 2012 Most of the literature of this Horn of Africa country is written in either classical Ge'ez or modern Amharic

FJ 1988 This African country has been an independent nation for all but 5 of its 3000 years

Angola 4x $800 avg DJ:3 FJ:1

DJ $600 1987 w/U.S., S. African & Chinese support, Jonas Savimbi aims to topple pro Soviet regime in this former Port. colony

DJ $1,000 1995 Until it gained independence in 1975, this country was Portugal's largest overseas province in area

FJ 1997 In the 1980s the U.S.-backed FNLA & UNITA battled the Cuban-backed MPLA for control of this country

the Sahara Desert 4x $300 avg J:1 DJ:3

DJ $200 1985 From east to west, this desert covers parts of 10 countries

J $400 2023 Because much of Chad lies in this vast arid region, its population density is among the lowest in the world

DJ $400 2022 The semiarid Sahel Region is on the southern edge of this straight-up arid desert of more than 3 million square miles

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