Portal:Africa/Did you know

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Did you know 1

Portal:Africa/Did you know/1

...that from
Union Minière du Haut Katanga had a virtual monopoly of the world uranium
market?

...that Anfillo is an endangered language of Western Ethiopia, spoken only by a few hundred adults above sixty?
...that
Bono Manso, the capital of Bono state, was an ancient Akan trading town in present-day Ghana, which was frequented by caravans from Djenné as part of the Trans-Saharan trade
?

...that Reverend John Chilembwe is celebrated as the first Malawian nationalist, and was a martyr for his cause?

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...that the
junk from India" rounded the Cape of Good Hope in 1420, around 70 years before the navigations of Vasco da Gama
?

...that the 1998 Sudan famine was caused by human rights abuses in the midst of the Second Sudanese Civil War?
...that a blowtorching the carcass of a sheep or goat without removing its fleece
?

...that President Paul Biya and his party, the Cameroon People's Democratic Movement
?

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Did you know 3

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...that Rukwanzi Island, an island in Lake Albert, one of the African Great Lakes, is the subject of a territorial dispute between the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda?

...that Prime Minister Hama Amadou
, which was ousted by a military coup in 1996?

...that All-Africa Games gold medalist and runner-up for the 2006 Kenyan
Sportsman of the Year award, has a younger brother who was selected "most promising sportsman" at the same awards?

...that Republic of Biafra, an Igbo secessionist state in southeastern Nigeria, during the Nigerian Civil War
?

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Did you know 4

Portal:Africa/Did you know/4

...that People's Democratic Party, is the daughter of former President Olusegun Obasanjo
?

...that the industry-wide miners' strike in the history of South Africa
?

...that leprosarium built during the Italian occupation of East Africa
and abandoned in 1941?

...that oil reserves
of 12 Gbbl (1.9×10⁹ m³)?

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Did you know 5

Portal:Africa/Did you know/5

...that members of the
Senegalese election of 2000
to edit their speeches?

...that Senegalese hip hop group Positive Black Soul's name abbreviation, PBS, is a play on that of the Parti Démocratique Sénégalais, PDS?

...that Grammy Award in 2005, but lost to his cousin Toumani Diabaté
?

...that, in November 2007, political activist Dan Mokonyane
had died?

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Did you know 6

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... that
Sub-Saharan African
woman?

... that legendary princess Yennenga, the "mother" of the Mossi people, was such a great warrior that her father refused to allow her to marry?

... that Safi Faye is a Senegalese film director whose work is better known in Europe than in her native Africa?

...that Mohamed Camara's 1997 film Dakan was the first West African film to explore homosexuality?

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Did you know 7

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... that Liberia College in the country of Liberia was authorized by the legislature in 1851, but did not start classes until 1863?

... that the forced UN
?

... that the supreme
praying mantis
?

... that
Bahá'í Faith in Niger began during a period of wide scale growth in the religion across Sub-Saharan Africa near the end of its colonial period
?

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Did you know 8

Portal:Africa/Did you know/8

... that Dutch
malacologist Adolph Cornelis van Bruggen is an expert in African land snails
?

... that a 20‑day study reported by BirdLife International discovered 265 species of birds in Nki National Park?

... that Kalulu, an African boy who died in 1877, was modeled in Madame Tussauds and attended Dr. Livingstone's funeral in London?

... that Samuel Jackman Prescod became the first person of African descent elected to the Parliament of Barbados?

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Akan drum

... that the British Museum's oldest African-American object is the Akan Drum (pictured) that was used to "dance the slaves"?

... that British Government compensated him for his illegal exile from Jamaica
?

... that despite receiving a budget allocation in 2003, the public sports stadium in Gibeon, Namibia, hadn't been repaired as of December 2007?

... that
Thomas Edward Wilkinson was made Bishop of Zululand after his predecessor in South Africa, John Colenso
, was excommunicated?

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Did you know 10

Portal:Africa/Did you know/10

... that at approximately 5,000 years old, the Lothagam North Pillar Site is thought to be the earliest and largest monumental cemetery in eastern Africa?

... that a 2020 study found that African countries which allowed foreign funding of NGOs had a higher voter turnout?

... that Essop Moosa, who was of Indian origin, became the first non-white player to play for an all-white soccer team in South Africa, appearing under a pseudonym?

... that the Seventh German Inner Africa Research Expedition served as cover for a secret First World War espionage mission?

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