African Vocabulary

2. by which fertile land becomes desert, typically as a result of drought, deforestation, or inappropriate agriculture.
4. of mouth; spoken rather than written.
5. capacity
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.
10. that is adopted as a common language between speakers whose native languages are different.
11. of institutionalised racial discrimination between 1948 and 1991.
12. naturally in a particular place; native.
14. produced for its commercial value rather than for use by the grower.
16. 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.

1. simplified form of a language, used for communication between people not sharing a common language.
3. cultivation
6. plain in tropical and subtropical regions, with few trees.
8. of people or things that can be conveyed by a vehicle.
9. crop
13. tradition
15. franca