Minister To Liberia

President Bio calls on regional leaders to unite on single currency adoption

Yesterday, president Julius Maada Bio of Sierra Leone chaired a zoom online meeting of the West African Monetary Zone Authority of Heads of States and Governments, where he encouraged his colleagues Heads of State and Governments across the region to unite, in ensuring that the proposed single

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Source: SIERRA LEONE TELEGRAPH – Sierra Leone News

After the Underground Railroad: Finding the African North Americans who Returned from Canada

The Underground Railroad which fugitive slaves followed from the antebellum South to Canada is now a well-known story. But what of those who returned? In his ongoing research, University of Texas at El Paso historian Adam Arenson explores this little-known aspect of nineteenth- century African

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AMHVoices: Corrupt leaders enabling price hikes - NewsDay Zimbabwe

EARLIER this year Finance minister Mthuli Ncube (my neighbour) visited us in Lupane, the provincial capital of Matabeleland North province. BY Martin Stobert, Our Reader Personally, I felt that he received a warm welcome he deserved not only because he is a prodigy of the district, but also because

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Source: NewsDay Zimbabwe - Everyday News for Everyday People

Spingarn Medal

Spingarn Medal awarded to Col. Charles Young, U.S. Army, for organizing the Liberian constabulary and establishing order on the frontiers of Liberia.

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Nov

7

1916

List of topics related to the African diaspora

List of topics related to the African diaspora - Wikipedia

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Gilbert Hunt: Slave Recognized for Heroic Actions in 1811

Hunt arrived at the theater to hear that a doctor, Dr. McCaw, was inside and had led women from the lobby to

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Source: Black Then

25 Facts about Marcus Mosiah Garvey – Black History Studies

Marcus Garvey worked at the offices of the African Times and Orient Review journal under the leadership of Duse Mohammed Ali, the famous Black nationalist and

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Source: Black History Studies – Educating the community to educate themseves

Ferdinand Léopold Oyono

Ferdinand Léopold Oyono , (born September 14, 1929, Ngoulemakong, Cameroon—died June 10, 2010, Yaoundé), African statesman, actor, and comic writer whose two best-known works—Une Vie de boy (1956; Houseboy) and Le Vieux Nègre et la médaille (1956; The Old Man and the Medal), written while he was

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Jun

10

2010

Monrovia, Liberia (1821- )

Monrovia is the capital of Liberia as well as its largest city. It is located on Bushrod Island and Cape Mesurado along the Mesurado River. A 2008 census showed its population as

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Source: Black Past

Apr

25

1822

Minister to Liberia

Lester Walton appointed minister to Liberia.

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Jul

22

1848

Marcus Garvey, "The Negro Moses"

Did Garvey, in his espousal of the repatriation of blacks to Africa, forsake the rights of African Americans in

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President of Liberia Dies

William Tubman, president of Liberia dies.

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Apr

23

1971

Jeter, Howard Franklin (1947- )

Howard Jeter, U.S. Ambassador to Botswana and later to Nigeria, was born in Maple Ridge, Union County, South Carolina on March 6, 1947 to James Walter Jeter, Jr. and Emma Mattocks Jeter. Howard Jeter first attended school in a one-room schoolhouse in Maple Ridge. The school had no

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Mar

6

1947

Garnet, Henry Highland (1815-1882)

Born into slavery near New Markey, Maryland on December 23, 1815, Henry Highland Garnet escaped from bondage via the Underground Railroad with his parents, George and Henrietta Trusty in 1824. After residing briefly in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, the family settled in New York City, New York

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Dec

23

1815

Coronavirus in Africa: 233,836 cases; 6,261 deaths; 107,013 recoveries

There are now more than over 220,000 confirmed cases of coronavirus across the continent, with a number of African countries imposing a range of prevention and containment measures against the spread of the

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Source: Africanews | Latest breaking news, daily news and African news from Africa

Africa COVID-19 stats: 382,190 cases; 9,664 deaths; 182,553 recoveries

There are now more than over 380,000 confirmed cases of coronavirus across the continent, with a number of African countries imposing a range of prevention and containment measures against the spread of the

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Source: Africanews | Latest breaking news, daily news and African news from Africa

Moses A. Hopkins

Moses A. Hopkins, minister and educator, named minister to Liberia.

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Sep

11

1885

Media Watch: Kenya to consolidate spike in tech use during COVID-19

Ethiopia restores internet to western Oromia after 3-month blackout

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Source: Africanews | Latest breaking news, daily news and African news from Africa

From Slave to Litigant: African Americans in Court in the Post-Civil War South

In the following article Melissa Milewski, a graduate student in history at New York University, describes her research which has uncovered the surprising success of African American litigants in court cases in the post-Civil War

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Source: Black Past

Jan

1

1854

First Baptist Church [St. Louis, Missouri] (1817- )

First Baptist Church in St. Louis, founded as First African Baptist Church, is the oldest continuously operating black church in Missouri. The precursor to the church was founded by John Peck and James Welch, two white Baptist missionaries sent west in 1817 by the Baptist Triennial Missionary

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Source: Black Past

Coronavirus in Africa: 306,390 cases; 8,116 deaths; 146,337 recoveries

There are now more than over 300,000 confirmed cases of coronavirus across the continent, with a number of African countries imposing a range of prevention and containment measures against the spread of the

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Source: Africanews | Latest breaking news, daily news and African news from Africa

Henry Highland Garnet, first Black to speak in the

Henry Highland Garnet, first Black to speak in the Capitol, delivered memorial sermon on the abolition of slavery at services in the House of Representatives. Henry Highland Garnet was born a slave in New Market, Maryland, in 1815. He escaped in 1824 and made his way to New York where he studied at

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Feb

12

1865

Kenya: Purge in Jubilee is Justified, CCM Chief Ruto Now Says

Chama Cha Mashinani (CCM) party leader Isaac Ruto has described the Jubilee purge in the Senate and National Assembly leadership as a normal party disciplinary

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Source: allAfrica.com

Cinemas and theatres to reopen for 14 days, restaurant dining to resume

The Government has approved the conditional reopening of cinemas, playhouses, and theatres for 14 days effective Sunday, July 5. This was announced in Parliament this afternoon by Local Government Minister, Desmond McKenzie, who noted that...

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Guinea

An outbreak of Ebola hit Guinea in March 2014 and spread to Sierra Leone and Liberia. By September, is estimated to have killed about 430 people in Guinea, and there were nearly 650 suspected and confirmed cases of it in the country, according to the Centers for Disease Control. In late August, the

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Source: Fact Monster - Black History

Sierra Leone

Sierra Leone, on the Atlantic Ocean in West Africa, is half the size of Illinois. Guinea, in the north and east, and Liberia, in the south, are its neighbors. Mangrove swamps lie along the coast, with wooded hills and a plateau in the interior. The eastern region is

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Source: Fact Monster - Black History

Tunisia: Ministerial Meeting On Project for Integration of Young People Excluded From School and Professional System

Tunis/Tunisia — The draft of a programme for young people excluded from the school system, vocational training and work was at the heart of a ministerial meeting chaired on Wednesday by Prime Minister Elyes

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Liberian Emigrants

The ship Azor left Charleston with 206 Black emigrants bound for Liberia.

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Apr

21

1878

Alphabetical List of All African Countries

Below is an alphabetical list of all African countries, along with capitals and the state names as they are known within each country. In addition to the 54 sovereign states in Africa, the list also includes the two islands still governed by European states and Western Sahara, which is recognized

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Liberia

Lying on the Atlantic in the southern part of West Africa, Liberia is bordered by Sierra Leone, Guinea, and Côte dIvoire. It is comparable in size to Tennessee. Most of the country is a plateau covered by dense tropical forests, which thrive under an annual rainfall of about 160

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Source: Fact Monster - Black History

Apr

12

1980

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