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Central and Southern Africa **  What is the political influence of South Africa?  Until 1990 Europe ruled South Africa. In 1923, Europeans separated Africans in South Africans into categories on skin color. People of African descent are black, Europeans are white, and mixed are colored. Asians are a fourth category called Asians. Blacks, Asians, and colored couldn’t vote and didn’t have basic rights. For seventy years these groups had a hard time gaining their rights. This created a sense of nationalism. White settlers had established the nation of South Africa. As blacks tried to gain rights they began to consider themselves as members of the nation. The struggle of majority rule in South Africa went on for so long it inspired movements in Namibia.  This is a picture of a woman protesting for the right to vote in South Africa. This picture was found at [|http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/4633637.stm I chose this because it took many years for blacks to gain basic rights in South Africa.
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Facts found at World Explorer. "The politica influence of South Africa" __Eastern Hemisphere.__

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2. What was the apartheid? The apartheid is a system of laws that made it legal to discriminate on the basis race. The apartheid forced thousands of Africans to 10 rural areas call homelands. The areas had poor farmland and were the driest parts of South Africa. The Africans lived in poverty there. The apartheid finally fell when the Blacks kept on protesting, and the government tried to end them with force but the protests got bigger and bigger. Until other countries around the world stopped trading with South Africa, or lending it money. Its athletes were also banned the Olympic Games and other international sports events.



3. Are the traditions of Central Africa perishing? In some ways their traditions are fading away and for some of their traditions are still alive. For an example of how their traditions are staying alive is in Congo one ethnic group called mbuti live in the rain forests of Congo. This ethnic group is unique because because they live the way their ancestors did. In forests camps 10-25 families make their dome-shaped houses from leaves and branches. For food the mbuti are hunter-gathers which means they hunt animals as well gather wild plants. The culture of the mbuti is more than 3,000 years old. The traditions of Central Africa are changing, an example is in Kinshasa the largest city in Congo, millions of people live in crowded shantytowns or cinder block apartments. They walk or take buses or trucks and work in factories, offices, and hotels. These people are much different then the mbuti.

I chose this picture because this is a mbuti family.

Vocab: hunter-gatherer- are people who hunt animals and gather wild plants. Nationalism: A pride in ones country. Communism: When there is one prime dictator in a country. Work cited: World Explorer, Eastern Hemisphere World Explorer, Eastern Hemisphere