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Mansa Musa
Mansa Musa män´sä mo͞o´sä [key], died 1337, ruler of the Mali empire (1312–37). A Muslim, he brought the Mali empire to its greatest height. During his reign Timbuktu became a center of Muslim culture and scholarship. His pilgrimage to Mecca in 1324–25 brought Mali fame throughout the world the
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Rep Maxine Waters reveals her sister died of COVID-19 at nursing home
California Rep Maxine Waters' sister died from coronavirus at a Missouri nursing home where staffers have staged protests against poor
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Niger
Niger, in West Africas Sahara region, is four-fifths the size of Alaska. It is surrounded by Mali, Algeria, Libya, Chad, Nigeria, Benin, and Burkina Faso. The Niger River in the southwest flows through the countrys only fertile area. Elsewhere the land is
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Tunisia
After two years of painstaking negotiations between secularists and Islamists, the National Constituent Assembly voted overwhelmingly in favor of the new constitution in January 2014. Ennahda abandoned its requirement that the constitution recognize Tunisia as an Islamic state that observes Sharia
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Algeria
Algeria ăljēr´ēə [key], Arab. Al Djazair, Fr. Algérie, officially Peoples Democratic Republic of Algeria, republic (2005 est. pop. 32,532,000), 919,590 sq mi (2,381,741 sq km), NW Africa, bordering on Mauritania, Western Sahara, and Morocco in the west, on the Mediterranean Sea in the
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Mali
In March 2012, President Touré was overthrown in a coup by mutineering soldiers who said they were acting in response to the governments response to the rebellion by the Tuaregs, nomadic insurgents of Berber and Arab descent who live in the north. The troops said they did not received adequate
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Islam in Africa
Islam in Africa, the development of the Muslim religion on the African
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Analysis | The playbook is familiar as first-time candidate with military record gives GOP a shot at House seat
“Career politician Christy Smith did nothing,” the narrator says in one ad for the Garcia campaign, accusing her of doing little while in the state
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Africa: Impact of School Closures On Education Outcomes in South Africa
In response to COVID-19 school closures and adherence to social distancing, UNESCO and many governments and agencies have recommended the use of distance learning, open educational applications and online learning to reduce disruption to
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Trump demands ‘these votes must not count’ after California opens poll site in heavily Black area
President Donald Trump demanded that votes from a new voting location in a Los Angeles suburb with a large black population “must not count” as he lashed out at California for its attempts to make it easier Americans to
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African philosophy
African philosophy is philosophy produced by African people, philosophy that presents African worldviews, or philosophy that uses distinct African philosophical methods.[1] Although African philosophers may be found in the various academic fields of philosophy, such as
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Mauritania
Mauritania môrĭtā´nēə [key], officially Islamic Republic of Mauritania, republic (2005 est. pop. 3,087,000), 397,953 sq mi (1,030,700 sq km), NW Africa. It borders on the Atlantic Ocean in the west, on Western Sahara in the northwest and north, on Algeria in the northeast, on Mali in the east and
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Adams, Samuel Clifford, Jr. (1920-2001)
Samuel Clifford Adams, Jr., U.S. Ambassador to Niger was born in Waco, Texas on August 15, 1920, to Samuel Clifford Adams and Sarah Catherine (née Roberts) Adams. He grew up in the Fourth Ward section of
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Central African Republic receives EU aid to battle COVID-19
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Holloway, Anne Forrester (1941- 2006)
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
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Elam-Thomas, Harriet (1941 – )
Born on September 15, 1941 in Boston, Massachusetts, Harriet Elam attended Simmons College in Boston where she received a B.S. degree in International Business. She also received an M.A. degree in Public Diplomacy from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University. She speaks fluent
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Somalia
In Jan. 2007, the U.S. launched airstrikes on the retreating Islamists, who they believed included three members of al-Qaeda suspected of involvement in the 1998 bombings of the American embassies in Nairobi and Dar es Salaam. The air strikes were strongly criticized in a number of Muslim
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Askia Muhammad Toure
Askia Muhammad Touré (1493-1528), established the Askia dynasty of
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Mali
Mali mä´lē [key], officially Republic of Mali, independent republic (2005 est. pop. 12,292,000), 478,764 sq mi (1,240,000 sq km), the largest country in W Africa. Mali is bordered on the north by Algeria, on the east and southeast by Niger, on the south by Burkina Faso and Côte dIvoire, and on the
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Africa: Migrant Lives at Risk as Rescues on Mediterranean Sea Come to Halt
U.N. agencies are warning migrants and refugees crossing the central Mediterranean Sea risk losing their lives if European nations continue to prevent search and rescue vessels from saving those in
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Jones, William B. (1928- )
On July 26, 1977, President Jimmy Carter nominated William B. Jones as the United States Ambassador to Haiti. The U.S. Senate confirmed Jones and soon after he took up his post in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Born on May 2, 1928, to Bill and LaVelle Jones in Los Angeles, California, Ambassador Jones grew
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Kenya slum demolition sparks protests amid virus restrictions
Hundreds of protesters in Kenya blocked one of Nairobi’s major highways with burning tires to protest government demolitions of the homes of more than 7,000 people and the closure of an adjacent food
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Africa and Africans in the Imagination of Renaissance Italians (1450-1630)
Many Europeans have long exhibited a fascination with the African continent.  However their knowledge of Africa was often incorrect or incomplete.  In the following article University of Cincinnati historian John K. Brackett describes the Italian idea of Africa during the 15th and 16th
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Prominent coronavirus deaths: Somali ambassador to Egypt dies in Kuwait
From top politicians – former presidents, prime ministers and lawmakers, to entertainment icons and top sportsmen, the virus has left in its wake prominent casualties who could hardly get the send-off they would have been accorded in “normal
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Nkrumah, Kwame
Nkrumah, Kwame kwä´mā nkro͞o´mä [key], 1909–72, African political leader, prime minister (1957–60) and president (1960–66) of Ghana. The son of a goldsmith, he was educated at mission schools in the Gold Coast (now Ghana) and became a teacher. A brilliant student, he studied (1935–45) in the
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The Sierra Leone Civil War (1991–2002)
The Sierra Leone Civil War was an armed conflict in the West African country of Sierra Leone from 1991–2002. The war began on March 23, 1991, when the Revolutionary United Front (RUF) under Foday Sankoh, with support of Liberian rebel leader Charles Taylor and his group, the National Patriotic
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Hicks, Irvin (1938- )
Irvin Hicks was a career Foreign Service Officer who rose from a communications clerk position to serve three times as a U.S. ambassador.  Hicks served in the Department of State during the nascent years of African Independence from European colonial rule.  Hicks was appointed Ambassador
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Booker T. Washington HS, STEM program launch COVID-19 video challenge
HOUSTON – Booker T. Washington High School (BTW) has teamed up with a nonprofit STEM program to help students and teachers manage the stress of COVID-19, with the cool off viral video challenge and
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Ferdinand Léopold Oyono
Ferdinand Léopold Oyono , (born September 14, 1929, Ngoulemakong, Cameroon—died June 10, 2010, Yaoundé), African statesman, actor, and comic writer whose two best-known works—Une Vie de boy (1956; Houseboy) and Le Vieux Nègre et la médaille (1956; The Old Man and the Medal), written while he was
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