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SECTION 2

Chapter 13

Sahel and Coastal West Africa

Sahel means “border”

Have short grasses and trees that are used for grazing animals

Severe droughts and desertification

Coastal country climates is affected by the Gulf of Guinea’s warm currents.

Sahel

Mostly Muslim

Speak mainly African or French

West Coastal Countries

Tropical disease easy to spread

Deforestation

Slave trade – prisoners of war captured in battle and sold to the Europeans, destroying families and villages

GHANA – first West African country to become independent (1957)

Rest of West Africa not independent until the 1970s

Most of West Africa’s farmers grow crops on their own small plots of land

Mali – completely landlocked country in West Africa

Famous ruler of Mali – Mansa Musa

Mud Mosque in Djenne

Bauxite – mineral used to make aluminum (Gambia, Senegal, and Guinea)

Senegal – West African country along the Atlantic coast Named after the Sènègal River that flows through

several West African countries

Ghana

Capital city – Accra

Has Lake Volta – one of the largest human-made lakes in the world

Cote d’Ivoire

Capital city – Yamoussoukro

Known for elephant ivory tusk

Diary Entry West Africa

Pretend you live in a West African nation. Write a diary entry about what your life is like. Include details about your family, weather, clothes, house, neighbors, economy etc.

Papers must be two paragraphs long. A paragraph is at least 5 sentences long. If it is not I WILL NOT GRADE YOUR PAPER. YOU WILL GET A ZERO!!!