African Nationalism & Independence

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Across
  1. 1. controlled the Congo region of Africa
  2. 6. the rich in many East African countries
  3. 8. were able to vote and run for political office now
  4. 10. Nobel Peace Prize Winner 1984
  5. 11. Mandela spent 26 years here
  6. 13. Nigerian novelist & Nobel Prize winner for lit.
  7. 14. Liberia depended on this export
  8. 16. formed but little success of economic and political reform
  9. 17. less precipitation, caused starvation and migration
  10. 18. new African leader that supported Pan-Africanism
  11. 20. a state that was torn apart by civil war in 1960s
  12. 21. most countries relied on export of a single crop or natural resource
  13. 22. resources were spent on military equipment or expensive consumer goods rather than necessities lead to this
  14. 23. Between 1957-1982, more than ________ leaders were overthrown.
  15. 25. diseases that hit Africa hard; many people died
  16. 26. native or originating from
  17. 27. these people saw cities as corrupting & destructive to traditional African values
  18. 29. first black president of South America
  19. 30. went through challenges to be free from colonial rule
Down
  1. 2. first British colony to gain independence
  2. 3. Africa depended on _______investment
  3. 4. The Charter of the United Nations believed all colonial people should have this right
  4. 5. African countries wanted this from European colonies
  5. 7. Nyerere declared that the basis of socialism is _________
  6. 9. founded by leaders of 32 African states, a result of Pan-Africanism
  7. 11. the unity of all black Africans regardless of national boundaries
  8. 12. African leader of independence movement of Ghana
  9. 15. where peaceful march was at; people were killed
  10. 19. the system of racial segregation
  11. 24. varied and not alike
  12. 28. site of 1994 genocide