East Africa

True or False: The East African country of Rwanda is landlocked.

• True

• False; Djibouti

• False; Sudan

• False; Ethiopia

True or False: The Nile River has 2 sets of Headwaters; the Blue Nile and the White Nile.

• True

• False; Blue Nile & Green Nile

• False: Tigris and Euphrates

• False; Nile and Red Sea

True or False: Well known wildlife reserves are located on the Sudanese Plain, an area of tropical grasslands larger than the state of Connecticut.

• True

• False; Serengeti Plain

• False; Great Rift Valley

• False; Nile River

True or False: Even before the 1800s, Europeans knew a great deal about Africa.

• True

• False; Everything

• False; Nothing

• False; Only about the landforms

True or False: Folktales and Fables are part of East Africa's oral tradition.

• True

• False; Religion

• False; Agricultural practice

• False; holiday celebration

Ethnic groups that dominated the Rwandan government in the 1990s

• clan

• Hutu

• Tutsi

• Sudanese

First Prime Minister of independent Kenya

• Jomo Kenyatta

• Ngugi wa Thiong'o

• Nelson Mandela

• Barack Obama

Leading East African novelist who wrote Weep Not, Child

• Jomo Kenyatta

• Ngugi wa Thiong'o

• Nelson Mandela

• Barack Obama

group of related people descended from the same ancestor.

• friends

• barbarians

• clans

• savages

type of energy produced through the use of falling water

• Hydroelectric

• Solar

• Nuclear

• Natural