Rwanda, Nigeria, Kenya, Sudan

This lesson aligns with course essential question #6- What are the important and ongoing Issues in Africa?

World Regions and Cultures 11- Africa- Nigeria, Rwanda, Kenya, Sudan

Nigeria

1. Pg 122- How many ethnic groups are in Nigeria?
2. Why is English spoken commonly? (2 reasons)
3. Pg 123- What religion has taken over Nigeria?
4. What law code is followed in Muslim countries like Nigeria?
5. What is the problem with Shariah law?
6. How has that been partially overcome in the last decade?

Rwanda

7. When did Hutus migrate to Rwanda and Burundi?
8. When did the Tutsi migrate from Ethiopia?
9. Tutsis spoke the same __________ as Hutu, adopted the same cultural __________ and there was __________ practiced between the two tribes for hundreds of years.  Many historians claim that there was no ethnic difference between the Hutu and Tutsi after many years because of the intermarriage
10. What was the economic difference between the Hutu and the Tutsi?

11. Belgians put the __________ in charge
12. Why?
13. Belgians claimed that the Tutsis could have been descendants of __________
1. Hammitic Hypothesis=
14. Belgians required the Hutu and Tutsi to carry __________
15. __________ were measured to determine race
16. Tutsis could attain higher __________ and hold positions of power
17. In 1962, ____________________ split into Rwanda, Burundi and Uganda as all free nations
18. __________ got control of Rwandan government!
19. In the 1960’s there was a mass killing of 20,000 __________
20. Many Tutsi emigrated to __________
21. Tutsis were the __________ of Rwandan problems
22. In 1986, the President of Uganda was __________.  He formed the ____________________ or      RPF to protect Rwandan Tutsis
23. In __________ Tutsis maintained control with violent treatment of the Hutu
24. In 1993, the RPF proposed a peace treaty with President Habyarimana of __________ who was a Hutu
25. He and the President of Burundi were in a __________that was shot down!  They died!  Many blame __________ for the killings!
26. Who was to blame?
27. A __________ is the systematic killing of a group of people due to their race, ethnicity, and economic, political or social status for purposes of extermination.
28. The Rwandan Genocide was from April to July in __________
29. __________ Tutsis and moderate Hutus died
30. The Hutu leaders of the Genocide used the __________ to propose attacks
31. General Bizimungu and the Rwandan military did little to stop the __________ from the killings
32. Women and __________ were targeted
33. Lists of __________were published for execution purposes
34. __________and guns were primarily used by the militia
35. What other messed up ways were used to kill Tutsis?

36. The purpose was to eliminate the __________ race and keep them from multiplying
37. The __________ did not stop the Genocide because it was seen as inter-tribal warfare.
38. The __________ stopped the Genocide in July, 1994
39. General __________, a Hutu, became President
40. A multi-__________ government was set up
41. __________ people were sentenced to death by the __________ trials
42. __________ are still in prison

Film clips-

• Hotel Rwanda
• Sometimes in April

Kenya

43. The Mau-mau movement in the 1960’s and 1970’s led to Jomo __________ becoming the first African leader of Kenya
44. Many __________ stayed and even flourished in Kenya afterward
45. Violence ensued in 2008 after a __________ election

Sudan

46. Over 200,000 people have been killed in __________
47. Darfur is the __________ part of Sudan
48. Darfur means land of the __________
49. The Sudanese genocide in Darfur is considered the worst humanitarian crisis in the world by many in the __________
50. The people who are perpetrating (committing) the violent acts call themselves __________
51. Dr. Kenneth Okeny, a professor from Salem State University, is from Sudan and he says is it senseless violence because both groups are __________
52. The people are Darfur are victims because they do not speak __________, many are not Muslim and they don’t make an effort to assimilate