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By the early 1990s,the Sub-Sahara Africa's foreign debt was around

A) $30 billion.
B) $70 billion.
C) $100 billion.
D) $200 billion.
E) $400 billion.

F) B) and D)
G) None of the above

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What is the racial category used in the country of South Africa to define people of mixed European and African ancestry?

A) biracial
B) coloureds
C) mulatto
D) mixed-race
E) negro

F) A) and B)
G) C) and E)

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Write an essay in which you discuss the ethnic tensions and some of the current hot spots of conflict in the region.Be certain to cite the major players in this conflict as well as the reason for these tensions.

Several African countries rely heavily on one or two export crops

At present,roughly half of the population in both Ethiopia and Eritrea is Coptic Christian

Tribalism,or loyalty to the ethnic group rather than to the state,has emerged as the savior of African political life.

As a region,what is the unifying theme of Sub-Saharan Africa?

Tropical deforestation in Sub-Saharan Africa is most prevalent in Madagascar.

Senegal has the largest oil reserves in Sub-Saharan Africa,and it is a member of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC).

What is the most important of the indigenous language groups of Sub-Saharan Africa?

Amid the poorer tropical soils of Sub-Saharan Africa,farming usually entails shifting cultivation (or swidden).

One positive change in the region is the decline in child mortality due to greater access to primary health care.

Two vast blocks of European language exist in Africa today: Francophone Africa,and Anglophone Africa.

Female traders in West Africa have considerable political and economic power.

The most secure wildlife reserves in Sub-Saharan Africa are located in the southern and eastern part of the region.

Of the following countries of Sub-Saharan Africa,which one saw the least political strife in the 1990s?

Which of the following is NOT a staple crop in most of Sub-Saharan Africa?

From the 1500s until 1870,about how many Africans were transported to the Americas as slaves?

European colonization was effective throughout Sub-Saharan Africa,with the exception of one country. What was that exception?

What Sub-Saharan African territory declared its independence in the 1990s,but has yet to be recognized as independent by any other nations?