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The first Africans in Virginia were a group of “twenty and odd” captive enslaved persons originally from modern-day Angola who landed at Old Point Comfort in Hampton, Virginia in late August 1619. Their arrival is seen as a…
News wires white papers and books Emeagwali, Philip 1954– Emeagwali, Philip 1954– Views 2,187,298Updated Philip Emeagwali 1954– Mathematician, engineer, computer scientist Hated Computers Set—and Broke—World Record Sources Philip Emeagwali (pronounced…
Abdulrahman Mohamed Babu (22 September 1924 – 5 August 1996) was a Zanzibar-born Marxist and pan-Africanist nationalist who played an important role in the 1964 Zanzibar Revolution and served as…
Homo naledi is an extinct species of archaic human discovered in 2013 in the Rising Star Cave, Cradle of Humankind, South Africa dating to the Middle Pleistocene 335,000–236,000 years ago. The initial discovery comprises 1,550 specimens, representing 737 different…
Oryza glaberrima, commonly known as African rice, is one of the two domesticated rice species.[1] It was first domesticated and grown in West Africa around 3,000 years ago.[2][3] In agriculture, it has largely been replaced by higher-yielding…
Doukki Gel Language Download PDF Follow Edit Doukki Gel Location Country Sudan Contact details 19° 38′ 28″ north, 30° 25′ 02″ east Geolocation on the map: Sudan Doukki Gel edit Doukki…
Folorunsho Alakija (born 15 July 1951) is a Nigerian billionaire businesswoman and philanthropist.[1][2] She is involved in the fashion,[3] oil, real estate and printing industries.[4] She is the Group Managing Director of The Rose of Sharon…
Lilian Masediba Matabane Ngoyi, “Mma Ngoyi“, (25 September 1911 – 13 March 1980) was a South African anti-apartheid activist.[1][2][3][4] She was the first woman elected to the executive committee of the African National…
The Ivory Bangle Lady is a skeleton found in Sycamore Terrace, York in 1901.[1] She was a high-status adult female, potentially of North African descent, who died in York in the 4th century AD.[2] Her skeleton was found with bracelets,…
Leymah Roberta Gbowee (born 1 February 1972) is a Liberian peace activist responsible for leading a women’s nonviolent peace movement, Women of Liberia Mass Action for Peace that helped bring an end to the Second Liberian…