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Abacha, Sani

Abdallahi, Sidi Ould Cheikh

Abiola, Moshood Kashimawo Olawale

Abubakar, Abdulsalam Alhaji

Abubakar, Atiku

Acheampong, Ignatius Kutu

Afewerki, Isaias

Aguiyi-Ironsi, Johnson Thomas Umunnakwe

Ahidjo, Ahmadou

Akintola, Samuel Ladoke

Amin, Idi

Atta Mills, John Evans

Awolowo, Obafemi

Azikiwe, Benjamin

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Ashe, Arthur Robert

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By the end of the 1980s, Benins economy was near collapse. As its oil boom ended, Nigeria expelled 100,000 Beninese migrant workers and closed the border with Benin. Kérékous socialist collectivization of Benins agriculture and the ballooning bureaucracy further damaged the economy. By

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2011

Book of the Dead

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Addis Ababa (1886- )

Addis Ababa was the last imperial capital of Ethiopia and serves as the capital of the modern state of Ethiopia. Addis Ababa came into existence in 1886 as a mineral springs resort for Ethiopias royal family and nobility. In 1892, Emperor Menilek II (r. 1889-1913) made it the capital when he

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South African Literature: Biographies

South African Literature: Biographies | FactMonster

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Howard University

Howard University | FactMonster

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Haiti History: Biographies

Haiti History: Biographies | FactMonster

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Namibia | FactMonster

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Uganda, twice the size of Pennsylvania, is in East Africa. It is bordered on the west by Congo, on the north by the Sudan, on the east by Kenya, and on the south by Tanzania and Rwanda. The country, which lies across the equator, is divided into three main areas—swampy lowlands, a fertile plateau

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Jul

27

1985

Banks is a former model who created the popular TV reality show Americas Next Top Model and hosted her own talk show, The Tyra Banks Show. Banks was a top supermodel of the 1990s, when she became the first African-American model featured on the cover of the Sports Illustrated swimsuit

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Djibouti | FactMonster

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Selma | FactMonster

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Ancient History, Egypt: Biographies

Ancient History, Egypt: Biographies | FactMonster

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James Baldwin established his reputation with his first novel, Go Tell It On The Mountain (1953), an autobiographical tale of growing up in Harlem. He became one of the leading African-American authors of his generation, known for novels and essays that tackled black-white and hetero-homosexual

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Destiny’s Child

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2013

Woods, Tiger | FactMonster

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Chad | FactMonster

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Kenya lies across the equator in east-central Africa, on the coast of the Indian Ocean. It is twice the size of Nevada. Kenya borders Somalia to the east, Ethiopia to the north, Tanzania to the south, Uganda to the west, and Sudan to the northwest. In the north, the land is arid; the southwest

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Garveyism Looks Toward the Pacific: The UNIA and Black Workers in the American West

In the article below historian Robin Dearmon Muhammad discusses the growth of the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) or the Garvey Movement in the American West, with particular emphasis on its influence in black working-class organizing in the San Francisco Bay Area after World War

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(1995) Louis Farrakhan, “A Million Men Marching On"

In 1995 Minister Louis Farrakhan was the leader of the Nation of Islam. That year his organization became the driving force in the Million Man March, a call for African American men to come to Washington D.C. on October 17, 1995, in what was billed as “a day of atonement.” Although

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Christianity: General

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Actress Berlinda Tolbert Born

Berlinda Tolbert played Jenny Willis, Lionel Jeffersons girlfriend, on the long running comedy The Jefferson.

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Nov

4

1949

Morocco | FactMonster

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Africa | FactMonster

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Libya | FactMonster

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