It is divided from North Africa by the Sahara desert. Most peoples of Sub-Saharan Africa share similar livelihood systems, such as similar practices of subsistence agriculture and pastoralism.
Most peoples of Sub-Saharan Africa share similar livelihood systems, such as similar practices of subsistence agriculture and pastoralism.
Imaginative geographies of Africa tend to portray the entire continent as homogenous, despite important regional and national differences in human and physical geographies. Nice work! You just studied 25 terms!
Common imaginative geographies of Africa include perceptions of the continent as, variously, overpopulated with starving people; or, as wild landscapes full of safari animals but empty of people.
The political and economic structures of Africa were transformed by European colonialism, so that today they are heavily dependent on exports of just a few key products.
Europeans had no natural immunity for diseases such as malaria, yellow fever and sleeping sickness.
It is divided from North Africa by the Sahara desert.
It is divided from North Africa by the Sahara desert.#N#Most peoples of Sub-Saharan Africa share similar livelihood systems, such as similar practices of subsistence agriculture and pastoralism.#N#Sub-Saharan Africa should not be considered a region separately from Northern Africa, since the colonial history of all of the continent of Africa is shared, and all the countries may join the political organization the African Union.
Imaginative geographies of Africa tend to port ray the entire continent as homogenous, despite important regional and national differences in human and physical geographies.