Africa: Taliban Triumph Means More Worries in Africa

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Africa: Taliban Triumph Means More Worries in Africa

[DW] The return of the Taliban in Afghanistan has taken the world by surprise. In Africa it compounds the worry and fear in countries struggling to crush Islamist insurgencies.

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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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Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela was inaugurated as the first democratically elected St

Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela was inaugurated as the first democratically elected State President of South Africa.

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10

1994

Queen Nzingha Joins the Ancestors

Queen Nzingha, amazon queen of matamba west africa, joins the ancestors on this day. Nzingha was a warrior queen who waged war again Europeans. Her formation of strategic alliances and fighting prowess urged other great african leaders totake a stand against the colonialism/imperialistic regimes of

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17

1663

Eartha Kitt was a singer and actress who recorded the hit holiday song “Santa Baby”. She was born on January 17, 1927 in South Carolina to an African American mother and a white father. She was raised by Anna Mae Riley, as her biological mother had abandoned her. It wasn’t until later

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Jan

17

1927

Ellas Neau, a French immigrant, opens the Carechism Schoolfor black slaves in

Ellas Neau, a French immigrant, opens the Carechism School for black slaves in New York City with help from the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts; by 1708 he is instructing more than 200 pupils.

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1704

Touissant L'Ouverture, born

Birthday of Haitian revolutionary Pierre-Dominique Touissant LOverture. There had been slave revolts before: in the Caribbean, in South America, and in

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May

20

1743

Frank Wills and Watergate Conspiracy

Frank Wills, Washington security guard, foiled break-in at offices of Democratic National Committee in first event of the Watergate conspiracy.

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Jun

17

1972

African Protests Disrupt UN

U.S. and African nationalist protesting the slaying of Congo Premire Patrice Lumumba distrupts U.N. sessions

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15

1961

Child, Julia, 1912–2004, American cooking teacher, author, and television personality, b. Pasadena, Calif., as Julia Carolyn McWilliams. In the early 1940s both she and her husband-to-be, Paul Child, served in the Office of Strategic Services in Washington, D.C., Ceylon (now Sri Lanka), and

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african heritage in the caribbean

The game Warri is a board game belonging to an ancient family of pit and pebble games which originated in Africa.The game originated in the Sudan and spread to western Africa from which it travelled to the Caribbean in the 17th century. It is one of the most interesting examples of African heritage

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0

1999

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1634 - French Catholics provided education for all laborers, regardless of race in Louisiana

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1634

First Black Secretary General of UN

Kofi Annan of Ghana becomes first black secretary of United Nations.

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1

1997

Prince Hall Masonry founded

Prince Hall founded Africa Lodge No. 1. It was the first Black Lodge of Free Masons in the United States.

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3

1775

Olaudah Equiano Dies

Olaudah Equiano dies in London without ever getting to see Africa again.

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Mar

31

1797

African Heritage

All Caribbean stories are known as Ananse stories even if Ananse does not appear in them. Ananse is the god of joke and trickery from the Ashanti peoples of Ghana. He was the unseen passenger on the slave ships and played a very important function in keeping the dispossed Africans connected to the

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Jan

0

1999

Alex Haley, renowned author, dies

American biographer, scriptwriter, author who became famous with the publication of the novel ROOTS, which traces his ancestry back to Africa and covers seven American generations as they are taken slaves to the United States. The book was adapted to television series, and woke up an interest in

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Feb

10

1992

Cornel West is an American philosopher, activist, academic and intellectual; he is also the first African-American to have graduated from Princeton University with a PhD in

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Jun

2

1963

Progress In Africa

Africa is the worlds poorest nation plagued by aids. Since the outbreak of aids in the 1980s, almost 800,000 africans have died from the disease. the outlook is beginning to look better for Africa. Most of the children are living past the age of five. Africans think that everything is wonderful in

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1997

France enters the Atlantic slave trade

France enters the Atlantic slave trade.

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Jan

0

1624

Henry Ossawa Tanner (1859-1937).

Henry Ossawa Tanner, painter of biblical, landscape and genre subjects, was the first black artist elected to full membership in the National Academy. Pennsylvania-born Tanner studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, and in France, where he settled. He developed a fine

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2001

Sampson was named the 1st Black representative

Chicago Atty. Edith Sampson was named the first Black representative (alternate delegate) in the U.S. delegation to the United Nations.

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Aug

24

1950

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Pedro Alonzo Nino, navigator of the Santa Maria, arrives with the explorer Christopher Columbus. African servants, slaves, and explorers come to the Western Hemisphere with the first Spanish French Explorers.

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0

1492

League of Nations Mandate

South Africa mandates League of Nations mandate over Southwest Africa

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Dec

17

1920

Nelson Mandela is released

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11

1990

the Mayflower of Liberia

The first organized emigration back to Africa begins when 86 free African Americans leave New York Harbor aboard the Mayflower of Liberia. They are bound for the British colony of Sierra Leone, which welcomes free African Americans as well as fugitive slaves.

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6

1820

Timbuctu and Djenne

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0

Andrew Young resigned under pressure

Andrew Young resigned under pressure as UN ambassador after unauthorized meeting with representatives of the Palestine Liberation Organization. Resignation created a storm of controversy and divided the Black and Jewish communities.

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15

1979

First Black delegate to United Nations, Edith Sampson, born, 1901

First Black delegate to United Nations, Edith Sampson, born, 1901

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13

1901

Patrick Kelly, first and only American fashion designer admitted to an exclusive

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24

1954

W.E.B. Du Bois died

W.E.B. Du Bois (95), scholar, protest leader and a founder of the NAACP, died in

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1963

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