First Black Secretary General of UN

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Ghana: Parliament Approves All 4 Supreme Court Nominees

The four, Clemence Jackson Honyenuga and Issifu Omoro Tanko Amadu, Court of Appeal Judges, Emmanuel Yonny Kulendi, private legal practitioner and Professor Henrietta Mensah-Bonsu, last week endured an average of three hours of vetting at the Joseph Osei-Owusu chaired Appointments Committee where

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Nelson, Charles Joseph (1921-2011)

Ambassador Charles Joseph Nelson was born in 1921 and raised in Battle Creek, Michigan. He was a 1942 graduate of Lincoln University, a historically black college in Pennsylvania where his field of study was Public Administration and Political Science. Upon graduation, Nelson was drafted into the

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W.E.B. DuBois

Born: 2/23/868 Great Barrington, MassachusettsDied: 8/27/963 Accra, GhanaWilliam Edward Burghardt W. E. B. Du Bois was an American sociologist, historian, civil rights activist, Pan-Africanist, author and editor. Born in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, Du Bois grew up in a relatively tolerant and

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Feb

3

1998

U.N. Leader Calls For Global Ceasefire On Africa Day

Africa Day will go virtual this year with a star-studded benefit concert hosted by English actor Idris Alba, an online how-to video for jollof rice, and a U.N. call for a global ceasefire issued by the Secretary General, Antonio

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Reggae Sunsplash (1978-1996)

Reggae Sunsplash, founded in 1978 to promote a slow summer tourist season in Jamaica, was the first Caribbean music festival to introduce reggae to a global audience. The idea of the festival originated with a group of young entrepreneurs who called themselves Synergy. They were led by Tony

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28

1978

Niger

National name: République du Niger

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Raila Odinga

Raila Odinga , in full Raila Amolo Odinga (born January 7, 1945, Maseno, Kenya), Kenyan businessman and politician who served as prime minister of Kenya (2008–13) following the contentious presidential election of December

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Robert Mugabe

Best Known

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Du Bois, W. E. B.

Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt Du Bois) dəbois´ [key], 1868–1963, American civil-rights leader and author, b. Great Barrington, Mass., grad. Harvard (B.A., 1890 M.A., 1891 Ph.D., 1895). Du Bois was an early exponent of full equality for African Americans and a cofounder (1905) of the

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Africa, Eid-Al-Fitr and the Virus

The New York Times went beyond the raw data that is quoted daily by Johns Hopkins University which tracks the incidence of COVID-19 in the United States (over 1.6 million confirmed cases, and over 98,000 deaths - the highest COVID-19 figures in the

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Akuetteh, Cynthia Helen (1948- )

In 2014, Cynthia Akuetteh, career Senior Foreign Service officer, was nominated by President Barack Obama to serve as ambassador to Gabon and the island nation of Sao Tomé & Principe. After U.S. Senate confirmation she arrived in Libreville, capital of Gabon, to take up her

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Sue K. Brown (1948- )

Ambassador Sue Katherine Brown is a career member of the Senior Foreign Service with the rank of Minister Counselor. In 2011 President Barack Obama nominated her to become the U.S. Ambassador to Montenegro, the first African American to hold this post and only the second U.S. ambassador since

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Jun

3

2006

Williams, Franklin Hall (1917-1990)

Longtime civil rights organizer and later U.S. Ambassador, Franklin Hall Williams was born on October 22, 1917, in Flushing, New York. His mother died in 1919. Williams was raised by his maternal grandparents. He graduated from Lincoln University in Chester County, Pennsylvania in 1941. After

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May

22

1990

Burkina Faso

Slightly larger than Colorado, Burkina Faso, formerly known as Upper Volta, is a landlocked country in West Africa. Its neighbors are Côte dIvoire, Mali, Niger, Benin, Togo, and Ghana. The country consists of extensive plains, low hills, high savannas, and a desert area in the

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This Day In History - June 29

1967: Israel defies international protests and unites divided city of Jerusalem for first time in two decades, following victory in Six-Day

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Togo

Togo, officially Togolese Republic, republic (2010 pop. 6,191,155), 21,622 sq mi (56,000 sq km), W Africa. It borders on the Gulf of Guinea in the south, on Ghana in the west, on Burkina Faso in the north, and on Benin in the east. Lomé is the countrys capital and its largest

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African philosophy

African philosophy is philosophy produced by African people, philosophy that presents African worldviews, or philosophy that uses distinct African philosophical methods.[1] Although African philosophers may be found in the various academic fields of philosophy, such as

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Côte d'Ivoire

Côte dIvoire kōt dēvwär´ [key] or Ivory Coast, officially Republic of Côte dIvoire, republic (2005 est. pop. 17,298,000), 124,503 sq mi (322,463 sq km), W Africa, on the Gulf of Guinea of the Atlantic Ocean. It is bordered by Liberia and Guinea on the west, by Mali and Burkina Faso on the

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(1997) The Idea of an African Renaissance, Myth or Reality?

I come to you from a liberated South Africa, a nation that many of you helped to set free. I come from a continent about which more is written but less is understood; so I come with a message that is straight-forward and simple. Like the Apostle Paul on his return from the provinces, I come to

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Mar

13

1997

A List of Famous African-Americans Who Spent Time in Africa

Most people know about the forced emigration of millions of Africans to the Americas as slaves. Far fewer think of the voluntary flow of the descendants of those slaves back across the Atlantic to visit or live in

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Covid-19: Ghanaian World War 2 veteran in virus fundraising

A 95-year-old World War Two veteran from Ghana has set up a challenge of walking two miles a day for a week to raise money for coronavirus

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Kofi Annan

Born: 4/8/1938 Kumasi, GhanaKofi Annan is a Ghanaian diplomat who served as the seventh Secretary-General of the United Nations from January 1997 to December 2006. Annan and the United Nations were the co-recipients of the 2001 Nobel Peace Prize for their work for a better organized and more

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Ethiopia Invaded by Italy

Ethiopia, one of the only two independent African nations at the time, was invaded on October 3,1935 by Facist Italy under Benito Mussolini. The Italians, seeking revenge for their prior

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Oct

3

1935

Africa Shines - How Elon Musk and Dr Thomas Mensah Have Changed the Worldforever

Dr Thomas Mensah described by one of the major American TV Networks CBS Television , as one of the Engineers who revolutionized the Modern Internet platform that supports Social Media worldwide, and Elon Musk who developed the Dragon I , Spacecraft that recently took two Astronauts to the

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Africa: COVID-19 Cases Across the Continent Exceed 78 Thousand

South Africa has the most reported cases – 13,524, with deaths numbering

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Organisation of African Unity

This articles lead section may not adequately summarize key points of its contents. Please consider expanding the lead to provide an accessible overview of all important aspects of the article. Please discuss this issue on the articles talk page. (March

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Second Liberian Civil War (1999–2003)

The Second Liberian Civil War was an intense four-year conflict that involved child soldiers on all sides and extensive civilian casualties. It was also one of the few civil wars that spread into neighboring countries, in this case, Guinea and Sierra Leone. The conflict began in April 1999 when

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Aug

11

2003

Amo, Anton Wilhelm (1703? -1753)

Anton Wilhelm Amo, also known as Antonius Guilielmus Amo Afer ab Aximo in Guinea, was the first intellectual of African ancestry to study in Germany. He obtained a doctorate degree in philosophy and held lectures at the universities of Halle and Jena. Having spent forty years of his life in

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Elmina - Medieval Trading Center on West African Coast

In the 15th century AD, Elmina (also known as Mina, Amina, Aminra, or Aminer) was one of several port communities on the Ghana coast (a.k.a. Gold Coast) of western Africa, associated with the West African ethnic group called Akan (Asante or Atweafo). Between the late 16th and early 19th

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