African Vocabulary

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Across
  1. 3. by which fertile land becomes desert, typically as a result of drought, deforestation, or inappropriate agriculture.
  2. 7. of agriculture, used especially in tropical Africa, in which an area of ground is cleared of vegetation and cultivated for a few years and then abandoned for a new area until its fertility has been naturally restored.
  3. 8. of people or things that can be conveyed by a vehicle.
  4. 9. hunting of rhinoceros in Africa, primarily because of an increase in the demand for a traditional Chinese medicine that is made from the powder of rhinoceros horn.
  5. 11. naturally in a particular place; native.
  6. 12. that is adopted as a common language between speakers whose native languages are different.
  7. 13. crop
  8. 14. plain in tropical and subtropical regions, with few trees.
Down
  1. 1. produced for its commercial value rather than for use by the grower.
  2. 2. of mouth; spoken rather than written.
  3. 4. cultivation
  4. 5. capacity
  5. 6. simplified form of a language, used for communication between people not sharing a common language.
  6. 10. franca
  7. 11. tradition
  8. 15. of institutionalised racial discrimination between 1948 and 1991.