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🌍History of Africa – 1800 to Present
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239 essential vocabulary terms and definitions to know for your History of Africa – 1800 to Present exam

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1994 democratic elections

A

Aborigines' Rights Protection Society
Accra Agreement
African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights
African Debt Crisis
African Governance Architecture
African Independence Movements
African Peace and Security Architecture
African Solidarity
African Standby Force
African Union Agenda 2063
African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM)
Africanization of Christianity
Afrobeat
Agricultural policies
Agroforestry
Akan
Aladura Church
Anglo-Zulu Treaty
Angola
Ashanti Empire

B

Battle of Adwa
Battle of Badme
Benin Bronzes
Berber Culture
Biafran War
Black economic empowerment
Bretton Woods Agreement
Bretton Woods Institutions
British Colonization
British Gold Coast

C

Cairo Conference
Cameroon under Paul Biya
Cape Colony
Cocoa production
Colonial missionary movement
Congo Basin
Congo Crisis
Congo River
Constitution of South Africa
Continental early warning system
Convention People's Party
Cultural boycotts
Cultural Diaspora
Cultural hybridity
Cultural hybridization
Cultural Nationalism
Côte d'ivoire

D

Dahomey
Debt crisis
Decolonization of Education
Decolonization of the Mind
Defiance Campaign
Democratic backsliding
Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda
Desmond Tutu
Disarmament, Demobilization, and Reintegration
Dutch Gold Coast

E

East African Campaign
East African Community
East African Trade Routes
Economic diversification
Economic independence
Economic Underdevelopment
Edward Wilmot Blyden
Egyptian Cinema
Egyptian Coup of 1952
Egyptian Revolution of 1952
Elmina Castle
Ethiopia under the Derg
Ethiopian Empire
Ethiopian Highlands
Ethiopian Resistance to Italian Invasion
Ex-FAR and Interahamwe
Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative