The largest mining and industrial center in Africa, and a city built on gold, is:
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Johannesburg.
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Kinshasa is often used as an example of relocalization. What is relocalization?
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When a city becomes a set of distinct neighborhoods cut off from each other
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In the 1980s, Ghana agreed to pursue the World Bank's recommendations for economic reform. As a result, Accra:
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-witnessed a decline in state-controlled businesses.
-put resources into building new roads and upgrading the airport.
-established export-processing zones to attract foreign investment.
******all of the above.
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HIV/AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa:
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has been facilitated in its spread by the high density of people in urban areas.
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Which one of the following programs could be instituted to reduce the push factors behind rural-to-urban migration in cities such as Dakar?
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NOT:programs that put tolls on all highways, not just major thoroughfares
-programs that strengthen agriculture and connect farmers to markets
- programs that subsidize housing prices in in-town new towns
-programs that use the media to change potential migrants' minds about moving
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The first city in Africa to become the capital of a new nation after World War II was:
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Accra, Ghana
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The slums of former French-colonial cities in Africa are known as:
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bidonvilles.
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The township of Roma is now inhabited by Lusaka's professional class. Under the British, it was inhabited exclusively by privileged whites. In both cases, Roma's maids and gardeners come from the informal settlement to the northwest. This is an example of:
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how segregation by race has been replaced by segregation by class.
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Much of what comprises Kinshasa in both physical and economic terms is undocumented, giving rise to discussion of it as:
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an Invisible City.
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The historical centers of urbanization in Southeast Africa include cities on which one of the following lists?
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Zimbabwe, Sofala, Dingaan's Kraal
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