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The 47-year old $ 2.3 billion Forbes certified billionaire, Zhu Zhaojiang broke ties with the Chinese mobile maker, Ningbo Bird in 2006. This was after Zhu, whose English moniker is George Zho, abortively globetrotted Europe in search for markets for his Transsion Mobile company’s phones erstwhile aNingbo Bird’s subsidiary. From his Shenzhen base, George fixated …
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In a Nov. 2005 presidential runoff election, Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, a Harvard-educated economist who had worked at the World Bank, defeated George Weah, a former world-class soccer star. In Jan. 2006 she became Africas first female president.
Pan-African Congress, organized by W.E.B. Du Bois, met a Grand Hotel, Paris. There were fifty-seven delegates sixteen from the United States and fourteen from Africa form sixteen countries and colonies. Blaise Diagne of Senegal was elected president and Du Bois was named secretary.
MOMBASA CITY, Kenya - Monica Kiema never had the chance to run like other children. Kiema, now a 50-year-old mother of five in the Bombolulu district in Mombasa, Kenya, contracted polio when she was just three years old and still lives with permanent paralysis in her left leg. But now Kiema has lived to see Africa declared polio-free by the […]
Elton Clay Fax, a prolific African-American cartoonist, author, and illustrator, was born on October 9, 1909, in Baltimore, Maryland. His parents were Mark Oakland Fax, a clerk, and Willie Estelle Fax, a seamstress. Elton’s younger brother, Mark, was a music prodigy who worked as a composer later in life. Elton attended Claflin College, a historically black college in South Carolina and then transferred to Syracuse University in New York where he earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) degree in 1931. In 1929 he married Grace Elizabeth Turner, with whom he had three children.
In 1935 Fax returned to Claflin College to teach art. After one year, he left Claflin and began teaching with the federal government’s Works Progress Administration (WPA) in New York City until 1940, at which point he became a freelancer. Fax’s work gathered attention at several art showings, including a 1932 solo exhibition in Baltimore where two nude paintings stirred controversy; the Baltimore Art Museum in 1939; and the 1940 American Negro Exposition in Chicago, Illinois.
Several black newspapers ran Susabelle, Fax’s popular newspaper comic strip, starting in 1942. From 1949, Fax spent seven years delivering “chalk-talks,” stories accompanied by live illustrations. Fax and his family frequently traveled, living in Mexico from 1953 to 1956 and later visiting South America. During the following decades, Fax’s travels took him around the world, particularly to Africa. In his visits to African nations, he delivered his famous “chalk-talks,” often on the topic of the American civil rights struggle.
Throughout his career, Fax illustrated over thirty books and numerous magazine articles. He wrote extensively on black culture as well, publishing several books and regularly contributing essays to a variety of magazines and newspapers. West African Vignettes (1960), his first book, detailed his African travels; later, he wrote Through Black Eyes (1974) about his journeys in East Africa and the Soviet Union. Other notable books include Garvey
The liberators of the ship Amistad set sail for Africa aboard the Gentleman.
Askia Muhammad Touré (1493-1528), established the Askia dynasty of Songhay.
Muhammad Touré continued Sonni Alis imperial expansion by seizing the important
Saharan oases and conquering Mali itself. From there he conquered Hausaland. The
vastness of Askia Mohammeds kingdom covered most of West Africa, larger than all of the
European states combined. With literally several thousand cultures under its control,
Songhay ranked as one of the largest empires of the time.
In order to maintain his large empire Muhammad Touré further centralized the government
by creating a large and elaborate bureaucracy. He was also the first to standardize weights,
measures, and currency, so culture throughout the Songhay began to homogenize.
Muhammad Touré was also a fervent Muslim; he replaced traditional Songhay
administrators with Muslims in order to Islamicize Songhay society. He also appointed
Muslim judges, called qadis , to run the legal system under Islamic legal principles. These
programs of conquest, centralization, and standardization were the most ambitious and
far-reaching in Africa at the time. It is of note that while the urban centers were dominated
by Islam and Islamic culture, the non-urban areas were not Islamic. The vast majority of the
Songhay people, around 97%, followed traditional African religions. Under the leadership of Askia Mohammed, Timbuctu once again became a prosperous
commercial city, reaching a population of 100,000 people. Merchants and traders traveled
from Asia, the Middle East and Europe to exchange their exotic wares for the gold of
Songhay. Timbuctu gained fame as an intellectual center rivaling many others in the Muslim
world. Students from various parts of the world came to Timbuctus famous University of
Sankore to study Law and Medicine. Medieval Europe sent emissaries to the University of
Sankore to witness its excellent libraries with manuscripts and to cosult with the learned
mathematicians, astronomers, physicians, and jurists whose intellectual endeavors
South Africa’s gross domestic product saw an expected surge in growth between July and September this year. The country’s annual figures rose by 66.1 percent after the Covid-19 restrictions were uplifted.
The economy had in the prior three months recorded a contraction of 51 percent during the nationwide lockwide.
The Africa’s most industrious economy was in a major recession even before the pandemic hit and later on proceeded to a further contraction.
Compared with the same period a year earlier, GDP shrank by 6% in the third quarter after a revised 17.5% contraction in Q2.
This major growth was mainly recorded from manufacturing, trade, and mining.
However, the recovery remains vulnerable, with power shortages and slow structural reforms likely to weigh on sentiment.
Unemployment also remains low at 30 percent yet it needs 5 percent economic growth to guarantee jobs. But the current projected growth rate is expected to be -8 percent.
There were a host of free Blacks who struck out against slavery. Many of these were
ex-slaves and free-born Blacks. This desire to place ones live in danger to help
those of ones people who are suffering, exemplifies well the tenets of Black
Nationalism. The Convention of free Blacks in 1817 who met at Philadelphias
Bethel AME Church declared, Resolved, that we never will separate ourselves
voluntarily from the slave population in this country; they are our brethren by the
ties of consanguinity, of suffering, and of wrong; and we feel that there is more
virtue in suffering privatations with them, than fancied advantage for a season. The
free-born Black, David Walker, published the famous Walkers Appeal in 1829
demanding that Blacks everywhere take up arms against slavery. He stated,
Look upon your children and answer God Almighty; and believe this, that it is no
more harm for you to kill a man, who is trying to kill you, than it is for you to take
a drink of water when thirsty. Walkers message, though aimed specifically at
those Blacks in America, held a distinct Pan-Africanist approach as it called out to
the Coloured Citizens of the World: Blacks in Africa, South America, and the
West Indies. Henry Highland Garnet was another such freedom fighter. In 1843
he called for a general slave revolt, urging slaves to act for themselves. He stated
fervently, Hear the cries of your poor children! Remember the stripes your father
bore. Think of your wretched sisters, loving virtue and purity, as they are driven
into concubinage and are exposed to the unbridled lusts of incarnate devils. Think
of the undying glory that hangs around the...name of Africa... Perhaps one of the
most well known of these free Blacks was Harriet Tubman. Born into slavery in
Maryland, she ran away from home at the age of twenty-five. Though free,
Tubman never forgot her enslaved sisters and brothers to the South. More than
nineteen times she returned as a thief in the night and stole more than three
hundred slaves to freedom. When
Born: 10/7/1931 Klerksdorp, South AfricaLeading figurehead in the South African anti apartheid movement. Desmond Tutu is a leading figure in speaking out for humanitarian and civil rights issues.Awards / Achievements:
National name: Républica da Guiné-Bissau
Current government officials
Languages: Portuguese (official), Crioulo, African languages
Ethnicity/race: African 99% (Balanta 30%, Fula 20%, Manjaca 14%, Mandinga 13%, Papel 7%), European and mulatto less than 1%
Religions: Islam 50%, indigenous beliefs 40%, Christian 10%
National Holiday: Independence Day, September 24
Literacy rate: 55.43% (2011 est.)
Economic summary: GDP/PPP (2013 est.): $2.005 billion; per capita $1,200. Real growth rate: 3.5%. Inflation: 1.9%. Unemployment: n.a. Arable land: 8.31%. Agriculture: rice, corn, beans, cassava (tapioca), cashew nuts, peanuts, palm kernels, cotton; timber; fish. Labor force: 632,700 (2007); agriculture 82%, industry and services 18% (2000 est.). Industries: agricultural products processing, beer, soft drinks. Natural resources: fish, timber, phosphates, bauxite, clay, granite, limestone, unexploited deposits of petroleum. Exports: $147.6 million (2013): fish, cashew nuts, shrimp, peanuts, palm kernels, sawn lumber. Imports: $206.4 million (2013): foodstuffs, machinery and transport equipment, petroleum products. Major trading partners: India, Portugal, Senegal, U.S., China, Togo, Nigeria (2012).
Communications: Telephones: main lines in use: 5,000 (2012); mobile cellular: 1.1 million (2012). Broadcast media: One state-owned TV station and a second station, Radio e Televisao de Portugal (RTP) Africa, is operated by Portuguese public broadcaster (RTP); 1 state-owned radio station, several private radio stations, and some community radio stations; multiple international broadcasters are available (2007). Internet hosts: 90 (2012). Internet users: 37,100 (2009).
Transportation: Railways: 0 km. Highways: total: 3,455 km; paved: 965 km; unpaved: 2,490 km (2002). Waterways: rivers are navigable for some distance; many inlets and creeks give shallow-water access to much of interior (2009). Ports and harbors: Bissau, Buba, Cacheu, Farim. Airports: 8 (2013).
International disputes: in 2006, political instability within
South Africa was banned from the Olympic Games because of its apartheid policies.
Akon is an American Hip Hop artist who has produced several platinum albums, appeared in television and film roles, received several Grammy nominations and owns two record labels. He was born Aliaune Damala Bouga Time Bongo Puru Nacka Lu Lu Lu Badara Akon Thiam in St. Louis, Missouri on April 16, 1973. His mother was a dancer and his father was a jazz musician, which exposed him to music from an early age. He learned to play 5 instruments including drums and guitar. As a child he lived in Senegal, Africa but the family returned to the U.S. when he was 7 years old. They settled in New Jersey, where Akon attended high school. He has stated in interviews that he is from a Muslim background and has never consumed alcohol or smoked, although there is some uncertainty regarding that fact.
Akon attended university for one semester in Atlanta, Georgia before dropping out to pursue his musical career. He spent some time in jail for being involved in car theft, and used this time to focus on music. Upon his release, he teamed up with Devyne Stephens, president of Upfront Megatainment who helped him to polish his talents and was also friends with Wyclef Jean from the band “The Fugees”. He was then discovered by Jerome Foster of SRC Records, who flew to Atlanta with SRC’s CEO Steve Rifkind to meet with Akon. The musical connection was instantaneous, and Akon released his first album with their label in 2004, titled “Trouble”. It featured several hit singles such as “Locked Up”, “Lonely”, “Belly Dancer (Bananza)”, “Pot Of Gold”, and “Ghetto”.
Akon started his new record label Kon Live Distribution and then released his second album titled “Konvicted” in November 2006. It was a huge success, debuting at No. 2 on the Billboard 200 charts and included several chart topping songs. It also featured collaborations with other artists such as Eminem in the song “Smack That” and Snoop Dogg in the song “I Wanna Love You.” It has been certified as triple platinum in the United States. In 2007, Akon launched his own clothing line by
Mbeki, Thabo Mvuyelwa tä´bō mvo͝oyĕl´ə mbĕk´ē [key], 1942–, South African political leader. Mbeki was born into a politically active family his father, Govan Mbeki, an official with the African National Congress (ANC), was imprisoned (1964) at Robben Island along with Nelson Mandela , released (1987), and became (1994) deputy vice president of the South African senate. Thabo Mbeki joined the ANC in his teens and left Africa illegally at the movements behest in 1962, studying economics at the Univ. of Sussex (M.A., 1966). He represented the ANC in England (1966–70) and received (1970) military training in the USSR.
Returning to Africa in 1971, he worked with the ANC in exile in Zambia. During the 1970s he traveled throughout Africa for the ANC and became (1978) political secretary to its president, Oliver Tambo. In the 1980s, Mbeki was the ANCs director of information, becoming director of international affairs in 1989. After South Africas ban against the ANC was lifted (1990), Mbeki was a key ANC negotiator in the talks that led to the end of apartheid . He was also successful in persuading the leaders of the ANC to embrace free-market principles. He was named chairman of the ANC in 1993 and, after the 1994 elections, became South Africas deputy president.
When South African president Mandela announced (1996) that he was stepping down, Mbeki was Mandelas choice as his successor as leader of the ANC, and he became the countrys second postapartheid president after the ANCs landslide win in 1999. He adopted a conservative fiscal policy while denouncing racism in South Africa and calling for affirmative action and economic empowerment for black South Africans. His public questioning of HIV as the cause of AIDS and of the safety of anti-AIDS drugs, however, somewhat diminished his standing abroad and at home. He also has acted as a mediator in a number of conflicts in other African nations. His quiet diplomacy between the government and opposition in Zimbabwe, which was slow to bear fruit and
Niger nī´jər [key], great river of W Africa, c.2,600 mi (4,180 km) long, rising on the Fouta Djallon plateau, SW Guinea, and flowing NE through Guinea and into Mali. In central Mali the Niger forms its vast inland delta (c.30,000 sq mi/77,700 sq km), a maze of channels and shallow lakes. An irrigation project in the delta, begun by the French in the 1930s and including a large dam at Sansanding (1941), has since opened some 250,000 acres (100,000 hectares) to farming, especially rice cultivation. Downstream from Timbuktu, Mali, the Niger begins a great bend, flowing first E and then SE out of Mali, through the Republic of Niger (where it forms part of the border with Benin), and into Nigeria the river also becomes increasingly polluted.
A hydroelectric and irrigation project, centered around the Kainji dam (1968), is located on the Niger near Jebba in E Nigeria. At Lokoja , central Nigeria, the Benue , its chief tributary, joins the Niger, which then flows south, emptying through a great delta into the Gulf of Guinea. The delta (c.14,000 sq mi/36,260 sq km)—the largest in Africa—is characterized by swamps, lagoons, and navigable channels. The region is a major source of palm oil and petroleum the exploitation of the latter has led to significant pollution of the water and land in some areas of the delta. Major towns in the delta are Port Harcourt and Bonny . Much of the Niger is seasonally navigable, and below Lokoja it is open to ships virtually all year. The Niger is a major source of fish, especially perch and tiger fish.
The upper Niger region was an important part of the former empires of Mali and Songhai . The course of the Niger long puzzled European geographers only from 1795 to 1797 did Mungo Park , the Scots explorer, correctly establish the eastern flow of the upper Niger, and it was not until 1830 that Richard and John Lander , English explorers, found that the river emptied into the Gulf of Guinea.
Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Chad, Côte dIvoire, Guinea, Mali, Niger, and Nigeria
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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
humiliating loss to Ethiopia over 40 years earlier, committed countless atrocities on the independent African state. Poisonous gas, aerial bomabrdment, flame throwers and
concentration camps were all employed against the ill equipped Ethiopian people.
Black outrage throughout the world was unified. The League of Nations,
forerunner to the UN, was criticized sharply for supplying weapons to Italy and
not to Ethiopia. Such actions confirmed Black suspicion that the war was of racial
motivation and sought to extinguish the last light of African power in the world.
From Kingston to Johannesburg, from Detroit to Ghana, form Port-of-Spain to
Paris, Black men and women offered to go fight in defense of Ethiopia. And as
battles raged between Ethiopians and Italians in Africa, battles raged between
Blacks and Italians in the streets of New York. In South Africa, Black workers
began a lengthy march up the continent to assist their African brothers in Ethiopia.
Elsewhere, ex-service men discarded their European and American citizenships to
bring their military expertise to the defense of Ethiopia. The exiled Ethiopian
Emperor Haile Selassie became a near legendary figure to many. Not before or
ever since was such a strong sense of Pan-Africanism seen throughout the world.
And though Italy succeeded in defeating the African nation, Blacks everywhere
would continue the struggle until Ethiopia was free.
Swaziland swä´zēlănd [key], officially Kingdom of Swaziland, kingdom (2005 est. pop. 1,174,000), 6,705 sq mi (17,366 sq km), SE Africa. It is bordered on the S, W, and N by the Republic of South Africa and on the E by Mozambique. The capital and largest city is Mbabane .
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Anne Forrester Holloway was appointed U.S. Ambassador to Mali on November 6, 1979 by President Jimmy Carter. She was the first African American woman to hold that post.
Forrester was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on June 2, 1941. She attended public schools in Philadelphia but then transferred to a predominantly white school, Northfield Mount Hermon School, in Gill, Massachusetts, graduating June 1959. She graduated from Bennington College in Bennington, Vermont in 1963 and later received her master’s degree in African Studies at Howard University in 1968. Ms. Forrester’s doctoral work culminated with a 1975 degree from the Union Institute & University in Cincinnati, Ohio.
In the 1970s Forrester met and married Marvin Holloway. The two of them became involved with Washington D.C.’s Drum and Spear Bookstore and Press, a center of Black Nationalist activity in the nation’s capital. She eventually advanced to the position of managing editor of the Press. Additionally, she worked as a part time staffer for Congressman Andrew Young, a Democrat and member of the U.S. House of Representatives from the state of Georgia. When Young became the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, she worked as Staff Director for his State Department office in Washington D.C.
While working for Ambassador Young, Forrester participated with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). Her work with that agency took her to Lesotho and Ghana and later to Barbados and the eastern Caribbean. She also worked with the United Nations Regional Bureau for Africa, and supported the work of the United Nations Foundation under its then director, Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, who is now President of Liberia. Ms. Forrester also became a senior adviser to the administrator in charge of launching the United Nations Foundation and in her first year raised $20 million for the organization.
With an extensive background in development work in Africa, Forrester was more qualified than most U.S. ambassadors to head an Embassy delegation on that
Fourteen years after its founding the American Colonization Society remained controversial among African Americans. By 1830 many of them opposed it and more generally the idea of forced or voluntary repatriation of blacks to Africa. One of these opponents, Rev. Peter Williams, Jr., the minister at the largest predominately black Episcopal Church in New York City, gave an impassioned speech on July 4, 1830, calling for African American allegiance to the U.S. but also demanding that the nation treat its black citizens as the full equal of others.
ON THIS DAY the fathers of this nation declared, We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, among which are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
These truly noble sentiments have secured to their author a deathless fame. The sages and patriots of the Revolution subscribed them with enthusiasm and pledged their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honour in their support. The result has been the freedom and happiness of millions, by whom the annual returns of this day are celebrated with the loudest and most lively expressions of joy.
But although this anniversary affords occasion of rejoicing to the mass of the people of the United States, there is a class, a numerous class, consisting of nearly three millions, who participate but little in its joys, and are deprived of their unalienable rights by the very men who so loudly rejoice in the declaration that all men are born free and equal.
The festivities of this day serve but to impress upon the minds of reflecting men of colour a deeper sense of the cruelty, the injustice, and oppression, of which they have been the victims. While others rejoice in their deliverance from a foreign yoke, they mourn that a yoke a thousandfold more grievous is fastened upon them. Alas, they are slaves in the midst of freedom; they are slaves to those who boast that freedom is the unalienable right of all; and the
