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● A corrupt former President – Robert “Bob” Mugabe
● Elephants and lions
● Gin and tonics
● Lack of fuel
● Lots of inflation
● Natural scenery
● Pleasant weather
● Victoria Falls
Most items were listed in The Africa Book; the MLA citation is below. What are other "trademarks" of this African country? Feel free to share your thoughts with a comment!
Phillips et al. The Africa Book: A Journey through Every
Country in the Continent. Lonely Planet, 2007.
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● Copper
● David Livingstone
● Growing tourism
● Peaceful sunsets
● The Victoria Falls
● The Zambezi River
● Troubled political history but a current multiparty democracy
Most items were listed in The Africa Book; the MLA citation is below. What are other "trademarks" of this African country? Feel free to share your thoughts with a comment!
Phillips et al. The Africa Book: A Journey through Every
Country in the Continent. Lonely Planet, 2007.
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● Being nicknamed the Pearl of Africa
● Entrepreneurialism
● Idi Amin
● Lake Victoria and its tranquil scenery
● Mountains of the Moon – Rwenzori Mountains
● Murchison Falls
● Rare mountain gorillas
● White Nile River
Most items were listed in The Africa Book; the MLA citation is below. What are other "trademarks" of this African country? Feel free to share your thoughts with a comment!
Phillips et al. The Africa Book: A Journey through Every
Country in the Continent. Lonely Planet, 2007.
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● Beach gigolos
● Having more women’s rights compared to other Arab countries
● Jasmine
● Star Wars filming locations
● The desert – and desert hockey
● The Hand of Fatima (Hamsa) symbols for good luck
● White-sand beaches
Most items were listed in The Africa Book; the MLA citation is below. What are other "trademarks" of this African country? Feel free to share your thoughts with a comment!
Phillips et al. The Africa Book: A Journey through Every
Country in the Continent. Lonely Planet, 2007.
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● Colonial French influences in architecture, etc.
● Emmanuel Adebayor
● Its skinny shape
● Lomé boulevards
● Riots, unfortunately
● Tamberma villages
● Voodooism
Most items were listed in The Africa Book; the MLA citation is below. What are other "trademarks" of this African country? Feel free to share your thoughts with a comment!
Phillips et al. The Africa Book: A Journey through Every
Country in the Continent. Lonely Planet, 2007.
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● Africa’s highest mountain, Mount Kilimanjaro
● Dhow sailboats
● Its wildlife
● Karibu (Welcome)
● Red-garbed Maasai warriors
● Safaris
● Serengeti (extends into a small portion of Kenya)
● Zanzibar’s carved doorways
Most items were listed in The Africa Book; the MLA citation is below. What are other "trademarks" of this African country? Feel free to share your thoughts with a comment!
Phillips et al. The Africa Book: A Journey through Every
Country in the Continent. Lonely Planet, 2007.
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● Ezulwini Valley
● HIV/AIDS, unfortunately
● King Mswati III and his lavish lifestyle
● Mkhaya Game Reserve
● Royal weddings
● Swazi art and crafts
Most items were listed in The Africa Book; the MLA citation is below. What are other "trademarks" of this African country? Feel free to share your thoughts with a comment!
Phillips et al. The Africa Book: A Journey through Every
Country in the Continent. Lonely Planet, 2007.
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● Atrocities at Darfur and fleeing-for-their-lives refugees, unfortunately
● Bokasi pickup trucks used for public transportation
● Cities at the confluence of the Blue and White Nile Rivers
● Desert land
● Having more pyramids than Egypt!
● Quiet but warm hospitality
● Riverside palm groves
Most items were listed in The Africa Book; the MLA citation is below. What are other "trademarks" of this African country? Feel free to share your thoughts with a comment!
Phillips et al. The Africa Book: A Journey through Every
Country in the Continent. Lonely Planet, 2007.
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● Civil war, unfortunately
● Having about 70 languages
● Its newfound independence from Sudan in 2011
● National parks with anti-poaching missions
● Petroleum
● The towering Mount Kinyeti, near Uganda
● The White Nile River
Most items were listed in The Africa Book; the MLA citation is below. What are other "trademarks" of this African country? Feel free to share your thoughts with a comment!
Phillips et al. The Africa Book: A Journey through Every
Country in the Continent. Lonely Planet, 2007.
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● Apartheid, unfortunately
● Cape Town and Table Mountain
● Deafening vuvuzela horns
● Giant steaks
● Nelson Mandela
● Peace and reconciliation
● Relative prosperity compared to other African countries
● Springboks
● Surfing
● Wildlife safaris
Most items were listed in The Africa Book; the MLA citation is below. What are other "trademarks" of this African country? Feel free to share your thoughts with a comment!
Phillips et al. The Africa Book: A Journey through Every
Country in the Continent. Lonely Planet, 2007.
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● A lot of coastal land
● Civil war and terrorism, unfortunately
● Colorful tropical fish swimming around islands near Zeila
● Pirates
● Qat
● Secluded beaches
● Somaliland striving to break away from Somalia
Most items were listed in The Africa Book; the MLA citation is below. What are other "trademarks" of this African country? Feel free to share your thoughts with a comment!
Phillips et al. The Africa Book: A Journey through Every
Country in the Continent. Lonely Planet, 2007.
— #AfricaWeek —
● Banana, Bunce, Sherbro, and Turtle islands
● Chimpanzees
● Diamonds
● Freetown’s cotton trees
● Gara cloth
● Murals
● Palm-fringed beaches
● Whale sightings in the Atlantic Ocean
Most items were listed in The Africa Book; the MLA citation is below. What are other "trademarks" of this African country? Feel free to share your thoughts with a comment!
Phillips et al. The Africa Book: A Journey through Every
Country in the Continent. Lonely Planet, 2007.
— #AfricaWeek —
● Granite boulders
● Giant and oil tortoises
● Oceanside palm trees
● Coups d’état, unfortunately
● White-sand beaches
Most items were listed in The Africa Book; the MLA citation is below. What are other "trademarks" of this African country? Feel free to share your thoughts with a comment!
Phillips et al. The Africa Book: A Journey through Every
Country in the Continent. Lonely Planet, 2007.
— #AfricaWeek —
● As a French-speaking nation with multiple native languages
● Colorful pirogue boats
● Dakar’s colorful minibuses, or car rapides
● Football
● Hospitality
● Île de Gorée
● Youssou N’Dour
Most items were listed in The Africa Book; the MLA citation is below. What are other "trademarks" of this African country? Feel free to share your thoughts with a comment!
Phillips et al. The Africa Book: A Journey through Every
Country in the Continent. Lonely Planet, 2007.
— #AfricaWeek —
● Being a small but magnificently beautiful island country
● Children playing in colonial-era plantation buildings and former hospitals
● Locally-handcrafted chocolate
● People barbecuing freshly caught fish on the São Tomé waterfront
● Plenty of yellow taxis in the town of São Tomé
● Possible oil prospects
● Roads and railroad tracks leading into rainforests
Most items were listed in The Africa Book; the MLA citation is below. What are other "trademarks" of this African country? Feel free to share your thoughts with a comment!
Phillips et al. The Africa Book: A Journey through Every
Country in the Continent. Lonely Planet, 2007.
— #AfricaWeek —
● Being the headwater source of the Nile River
● Gorillas in the mist
● Its location along the Great Rift Valley
● Le pays des milles collines – The country of a thousand hills
● Primus beer
● The 1994 genocide, unfortunately
● Virunga volcanoes
Most items were listed in The Africa Book; the MLA citation is below. What are other "trademarks" of this African country? Feel free to share your thoughts with a comment!
Phillips et al. The Africa Book: A Journey through Every
Country in the Continent. Lonely Planet, 2007.
— #AfricaWeek —
● Afrobeat music
● Chinua Achebe, Wole Soyinka, and other writers
● Email scams from a “Nigerian prince,” unfortunately
● Lagos’ urban sprawl
● Many (over 500) languages
● Nollywood, Nigeria’s burgeoning film industry
● Petroleum
Most items were listed in The Africa Book; the MLA citation is below. What are other "trademarks" of this African country? Feel free to share your thoughts with a comment!
Phillips et al. The Africa Book: A Journey through Every
Country in the Continent. Lonely Planet, 2007.
— #AfricaWeek —
● The Cure Salée (Salty Cure) – Festival of the Nomads
● Historic salt and gold trade routes
● Pyramidal mosque minaret in Agadez
● Taureg nomads in the desert
● Aïr Mountains
● Ténéré Desert
Most items were listed in The Africa Book; the MLA citation is below. What are other "trademarks" of this African country? Feel free to share your thoughts with a comment!
Phillips et al. The Africa Book: A Journey through Every
Country in the Continent. Lonely Planet, 2007.
— #AfricaWeek —
● The Kalahari and Namib Deserts
● Etosha Pan
● Desert elephants
● Caprivi Strip
● Oktoberfest
● Being sparsely populated
● Skeleton Coast
Most items were listed in The Africa Book; the MLA citation is below. What are other "trademarks" of this African country? Feel free to share your thoughts with a comment!
Phillips et al. The Africa Book: A Journey through Every
Country in the Continent. Lonely Planet, 2007.
— #AfricaWeek —
● Cahora Bassa Dam
● José Craveirinha’s poetry
● Makonde woodcarvings
● Malangatana’s paintings
● Marrabenta music
● Prawns and crayfish
● Serene islands and beaches along the Indian Ocean
Most items were listed in The Africa Book; the MLA citation is below. What are other "trademarks" of this African country? Feel free to share your thoughts with a comment!
Phillips et al. The Africa Book: A Journey through Every
Country in the Continent. Lonely Planet, 2007.
— #AfricaWeek —
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