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Africa: Continent's Richest Countries

[Nairobi News] Africa remains a powerhouse in the production of natural resources and innovation, despite the social and political issues the continent undergoes.

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LETTERS: Kenya needs strategies for future pandemic

As leaders around the world race to catch up to this disease, policymakers in Kenya have an opportunity to not only respond to the current crisis, but also to invest in health security infrastructure that includes a suite of tools to prevent future

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African Americans in Louisiana

African Americans in Louisiana are residents of the state of Louisiana who are of African-American

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Swahili language

Swahili language, member of the Bantu group of African languages (see African languages and Bantu languages ). Swahili is spoken by 30 million people, chiefly in Tanzania, Kenya, Congo (Kinshasa), Burundi, and Uganda, and serves as a lingua franca for additional millions in E Africa, including

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Kofi Awoonor , original name George Kofi Awoonor Williams (born March 13, 1935, Weta, Gold Coast [now Ghana]—died September 21, 2013, Nairobi, Kenya), Ghanaian novelist and poet whose verse has been widely translated and

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Uganda: World Tributes Flow in for Legendary Kirunda

Kirunda's far-reaching impact, which shows him as Uganda's most successful captain having led the Cranes to their best ever finish at Afcon finals, where they lost to champions Ghana in 1978, also had the game's most powerful man chip

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Madagascar măd˝əgăs´cär [key], officially Republic of Madagascar, republic (2005 est. pop. 18,040,000), 226,658 sq mi (587,045 sq km), in the Indian Ocean, separated from E Africa by the Mozambique Channel. Madagascar is the worlds fourth largest island. The country also claims several small

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Rwanda: Will Rwanda Ever Replicate the Afcon 2004 Glory Days?

After the stunning 2003-04 campaign that led to Rwanda's historic debut at the 2004 Africa Cup of Nations in Tunisia, everyone hoped it was the beginning of a new dawn for Rwanda football, but particularly for the national team

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(1884) William H. Crogman, “Negro Education: Its Helps and Hindrances”

? William Henry Crogman, a native of the West Indian island of St. Martin, was educated at Pierce Academy in Massachusetts immediately after the Civil War. In 1868 he was named to the English faculty of newly organized Claflin College in South Carolina. By 1870 Crogman returned to college, ente

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(1869) Frederick Douglass Describes The "Composite Nation"

In an 1869 speech in Boston, Frederick Douglass challenged most social observers and politicians (including most African Americans) by advocating the acceptance of Chinese immigration. His argument is presented

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Liberia lībēr´ēə [key] (New Lat.,=place of freedom), officially Republic of Liberia, republic (2005 est. pop. 3,482,000), 43,000 sq mi (111,370 sq km), W Africa. Liberia fronts on the Atlantic Ocean for some 350 mi (560 km) on the southwest and is bordered on the northwest by Sierra Leone, on the

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Slave narrative

The slave narrative is a type of literary work that is made up of the written accounts of enslaved Africans in Great Britain and its colonies, including the later United States, Canada, and Caribbean nations. Some six thousand former slaves from North America and the Caribbean gave accounts of

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Free Africa Society organized

January 28, 1787 - Free Africa Society organized in Philadelphia.

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(1797) Abraham Johnstone, “Address To The People Of Color”

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Cameroon University Suspends Professor For Asking A Legal Question In A Law Class | Afro

Cameroon’s University of Buea suspended a law instructor more than a month after he asked students a legal question during a political and constitutional history

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Uganda: Ministry Unveils Programme to Curb Rising Heart Diseases

As country commemorated World Hypertension Day on Sunday, the health ministry unveiled a new programme to improve screening, train more health workers and refurbish facilities to tackle the rising burden of

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Hidden Figures (2017)

Hidden Figures (2017) - Savoy Network

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Unions oppose Cameroon’s plan to reopen schools

A group of trade unions in Cameroon's education sector has opposed the government's plan to reopen schools on June 1 for students of examination

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Negro Year Book

Monroe Nathan Work marries Florence Evelyn Hendrickson. Greatly assisted by his wife, Work will publish The Negro Year Book, and annual encyclopedia of African American achievement. He will later publish A Bibliography of the Negro in Africa and American (1928) with over 17,000 entries. Reviewers

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Wanda L. Nesbitt (1956-- )

Wanda L. Nesbitt holds the rank of Career Minister in the U.S. Foreign Service. She joined the United States Foreign Service in 1981. She was appointed U.S. Ambassador to Madagascar by President George W. Bush and served in that capacity from 2001 to 2004. President Bush appointed her ambassador

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Queries raised over Kabuga's Kenya link

For many years believed to have been hiding in Kenya, Kabuga, born in 1935 in Muniga, Rwanda, is said to have been one of the perpetrators of the genocide against the Tutsi, in which more than a million people were

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Rwanda: Kwizera Looks to Guide Gisagara to Glory in His Maiden Managerial Year

PIERRE Marshall Kwizera is keen on inspiring Gisagara to their third national volleyball league title as he looks to make history of clinching the championship in his maiden season as

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Ethiopia coronavirus: Cases pass 1,000 mark; total tests top 100,000

May 30: Cases pass 1,000 mark; total tests top 100,000

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Perry, June Carter (1943- )

Ambassador June Carter Perry was born November 13, 1943 in Texarkana, Arkansas. After completing grade school, Perry was accepted at the Loyola University in Chicago, Illinois where in 1965 she earned her degree in history. Two years later she earned a master’s degree in European History at the

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Black nationalism

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S. Africa to ease Covid-19 lockdown

South Africa will ease the Covid-19 lockdown from level four to level three beginning from June 1, President Cyril Ramaphosa announced Sunday amid a surge in confirmed

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Cape Verde vûd [key], Port. Cabo Verde, officially Republic of Cape Verde, republic (2005 est. pop. 418,000), c.1,560 sq mi (4,040 sq km), W Africa, in the Atlantic Ocean about 300 mi (480 km) W of Dakar, Senegal. It is an archipelago made up of 10 islands and 5 islets. Praia, located on the

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Somalia sōmä´leə [key], country (2005 est. pop. 8,591,000), 246,200 sq mi (637,657 sq km), extreme E Africa. It is directly south of the Arabian peninsula across the Gulf of Aden. Somalia comprises almost the entire African coast of the Gulf of Aden and a longer stretch on the Indian Ocean. It is

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Thomas-Greenfield, Linda (1952- )

Born in Baker, Louisiana circa 1952, Linda Thomas-Greenfield graduated from a segregated high school in 1970. The first in her family to graduate from high school, Thomas-Greenfield saw the local Peace Corps training center, which trained volunteers for work in Somalia and Swaziland, as influencing

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The science behind Level 3 - Ramaphosa lauds 'diverse and sometimes challenging views'

As President Cyril Ramaphosa announced the downgrade to Level 3 of the national Covid-19 lockdown, he thanked scientists for challenging and pushing the government's response to the global

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When Blacks Succeed: The 1906 Atlanta Race Riot

This is part six, the final section of the award winning documentary, When Blacks Succeed: The 1906 Atlanta Race Riot

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