First Africans in Virginia
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…
Emeagwali, Philip
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
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
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.…
Oryza Glaberrima
Oryza glaberrima, commonly known as African rice, is one of the two domesticated rice species. It was first domesticated and grown in West Africa around 3,000 years ago. In agriculture,…
Doukki Gel Sudan
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…
Folorunsho Alakija
Folorunsho Alakija (born 15 July 1951) is a Nigerian billionaire businesswoman and philanthropist. She is involved in the fashion, oil, real estate and printing industries. She is the Group Managing…
Lillian Ngoyi
Lilian Masediba Matabane Ngoyi, “Mma Ngoyi“, (25 September 1911 – 13 March 1980) was a South African anti-apartheid activist. She was the first woman elected to the executive committee of…
Ivory Bangle Lady
The Ivory Bangle Lady is a skeleton found in Sycamore Terrace, York in 1901. She was a high-status adult female, potentially of North African descent, who died in York in…
Leymah Gbowee
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…