ANSWERS

1. 22%

2. c) Botswana. He was the president from 1966 to 1980 and died in office.

3. Nigeria. A 2006 estimate shows 132 million.

4. Upper Volta. Its name was changed in 1984.

5. Malawi

6. Menelik II. He died in 1913

7. Pula

8. Chinua Achebe. His first book is Things Fall Apart, 1958 and he is one of the most read African novelists.

9. Mali.

10. Mozambique. It is taken from Resistacia National Mocambicana

11. Eritrea. It became an Italian colony on January 1, 1890.

12. d) Libya

13. a) Albert John Luthulu, South African Civil Rights Leader, 1960

14. Portuguese East Africa.

15. Uhuru.

16. Teferi Mekonen.

17. New Partnership for African Development.

18. Port Said and Suez, both Egyptian.

19. Gabon, Congo Republic, Democratic Republic of Congo, Uganda, Kenya and Somalia.

20. South Westerly Township.

21. Thomas Sankara. He was the president of the country from 1983 to 1987. He rose to power in a bloodless coup and lost it and his life in another coup led by his own friend and advisor.

22. b) Julius Kambarage Nyrere, the first president of Tanzania.

23. Naguib Mahfouz, Egypt, 1988.

24. Zambia. He died in 2005 while still in exile.

25. Albert Luthuli, 1960. It was part of his acceptance speech when he won the Nobel Peace Prize award.

26. Winnie Mandela

27. Western Sahara.

28. Albert Bernard. He announced his conversion to Islam and changed his name in 1973.

29. The Atlantic Coast of Namibia.

30. Operation Moses.