Theory question 108
Geography of Africa(a) Draw a sketch map of Africa. On it show and name: (i) Cameroun Highlands; (ii) Fouta Djallon Highlands; (iii) one important river that takes its source from any of the highlands named in (a)(i) and (ii) above. (b) Highlight four ways in which rivers are important to the economy of Africa. (c) Outline three problems limiting the use of African rivers.
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(a) Map: Cameroun Highlands on the Nigeria-Cameroon border; Fouta Djallon in Guinea; river: Niger, Senegal or Gambia (from Fouta Djallon) or Benue (from Cameroun Highlands).
(b) Transport and navigation; hydro-electric power; irrigation; fishing; domestic and industrial water supply; tourism and recreation; fertile floodplains for farming; boundaries.
(c) Rapids, waterfalls and cataracts; seasonal fluctuation in volume; sandbars and silting at mouths; water weeds (water hyacinth); flow through sparsely populated areas; diseases (river blindness, bilharzia); lack of capital for development.
Show the river starting in the highland you named.