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Palmer, Larry L. (1949- )
On November 1, 2011, President Barack H. Obama appointed Larry L. Palmer the United States Ambassador to Barbados and the Eastern Caribbean. On March 30, 2012, the U.S. Senate confirmed Palmer’s nomination and he reported to his post in Bridgetown, Barbados. Born in Augusta, Georgia, on July
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Lorraine Hansberry - African-American Playwright
Lorraine Hansberry is best known for writing A Raisin in the Sun, the first play by an African American woman produced on
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World's Biggest Black Homeschool Conference Goes Online for the First Time With Discounted Ticket Prices
9th Annual Liberated Minds Expo Offers a Lasting Form of Protest and Resistance to the George Floyd Murder by Way of Homeschooling
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RABS Bill dismissed: 'Now we can get to work on fixing RAF'
The RABS bill has long been suggested as an alternative to the Road Accident Fund, but has faced a great deal of scrutiny over several years.
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South Africa: Today’s latest news and headlines, Thursday 2 July
In addition to challenges presented by the pandemic, President Ramaphosa faces trouble from within his own political party.
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Oliver Tambo - Birthday
Oliver Tambo , (born October 27, 1917, Bizana, Pondoland district, Transkei [now in Eastern Cape], South Africa—died April 24, 1993, Johannesburg), president of the South African black-nationalist African National Congress (ANC) between 1967 and 1991.
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African History: Biographies
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Eighth VBS Bank Heist suspect to plead guilty, according to prosecutors
Phillip Truter, previously VBS Bank's CFO, was arrested on Saturday and made his first appearance on Monday. He was released on 50 000 bail.
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Zimbabwe: Mnangagwa Re-Opens Schools for Examination Classes
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has announced the re-opening of schools and colleges for public examination classes and final year students respectively in his Covid-19 national address at State
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South Africa: Today’s latest news and headlines, Friday 26 June
If you need to know all the latest news in South Africa, be sure to check out our overview of major headlines on Friday 26 June.
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How Hanekom accepted Zuma's apology - despite one unresolved matter
Jacob Zuma has finally apologised for calling Derek Hanekom a 'known enemy agent' on Twitter last year - but the matter isn't quite resolved yet.
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BlackPast.org, an online reference center makes availablea wealth of materials on African American history in one centrallocation on the Internet. These materials include an onlineencyclopedia of over 4,000 entries, the complete transcript of more than 300speeches by African Americans, other people
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What Was Apartheid in South Africa?
Apartheid is an Afrikaans word that means separation. It is the name given to the particular racial-social ideology developed in South Africa during the twentieth
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Liberia: Worshippers Express Delight in Opening of Churches Amid Nearly Two Months of Shutdown
Following the President's lifting of the ban on worship services, major churches including the Catholic Arch Diocese of Monrovia, the Episcopal and Lutheran Churches in separate statements issued, called on their members to put a hold on mass worship services amid the increase of COVID-19 cases in
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Newswire: Election rerun in Malawi scores upset victory for opposition
June 29, 2020 (GIN) – In a landmark presidential rerun, Malawi’s sitting President has been ousted from power after a sweeping victory by a popular Pentecostal preacher and former theology lecturer who promised to unite and serve all Malawians.“I want to provide leadership that makes everybody
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'Treasonous betrayal' - MKMVA lashes out at 'paralysed' ANC NEC for divisions | News24
The Umkhonto weSizwe Military Veterans Association has gone for broke, attacking the ANC's national executive committee and taking a dig at President Cyril Ramaphosa's indecisive leadership.
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Fikes, Robert
Robert Fikes, Jr., a 1970 graduate of Tuskegee Institute, earnedgraduate degrees in modern European history and library science at theUniversity of Minnesota. A reference librarian at San Diego StateUniversity where he is also subject bibliographer for Africana Studiesand for American, Middle
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COMMENTARY: COVID-19 "My personal battle from a positive to a negative result"
A few days after my call with Rep. Reynolds, I received a call on my cell phone from U.S. Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee on Wednesday, March
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Zimbabwe: Relief in Maphisa As Electricity Is Restored After 10-Month Blackout
This was after the Zimbabwe Electricity Supply Authority (ZESA) had reported the theft of 42 spans (seven kilometres) of copper cables, plunging residents into nearly a year of total
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Tanzania: Magufuli - Our Economy Comes First in COVID-19 Fight
Dar es Salaam — President John Magufuli said on Sunday that Tanzania's handling of Covid-19 was in such a way that the country's economy comes first and above everything
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Uganda: Sand Mining Resumes On L.victoria Shores
Sand mining has resumed on the shores of Lake Victoria despite the recent presidential directive to the Minister of Water and Environment to clear all wetlands, riverbanks and lakeshores of
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Hayden, Earl Robert (1913-1980)
The son of Asa and Ruth Sheffey who named him Asa Bundy at birth, poet Robert Hayden was born in Detroit, Michigan and reared in “Paradise Valley,” an inner city ghetto.  Adoptive parents, William and Sue Ellen Westerfield Hayden, gave him the name by which he is known.  A graduate of
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Liberia: A Call Coming a Bit Too Late - COVID-19 Voluntary Testing Should Have Started Started With the President, Long Ago
On Sunday, May 17, the Minister of Health, Dr. Wilhemina Jallah flunked by the Chief Medical Officer Dr. Francis Kateh, followed by the WHO Representative to Liberia Peter Clement, Dr. Desmond William head of US Center for Disease Control (CDC) in West Africa and Liberia and USAID Resident
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South Africa
South Africa, on the continents southern tip, is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean on the west and by the Indian Ocean on the south and east. Its neighbors are Namibia in the northwest, Zimbabwe and Botswana in the north, and Mozambique and Swaziland in the northeast. The kingdom of Lesotho forms an
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Equatorial guinea
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Liberian Churches Resume Worship
Churches across Liberia resumed their regular worship services on Sunday, May 17, more than one month after the government banned social gathering ordering all Churches, Mosques and worship centers
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Egypt: No Pretense of Judicial Review for Hundreds
They said that Supreme State Security prosecutors and criminal court judges have renewed detentions, including for scores of their clients, without transporting detainees to hearings or giving lawyers the opportunity to enter
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Equatorial Guinea
Equatorial Guinea, formerly Spanish Guinea, consists of Río Muni (10,045 sq mi; 26,117 sq km), on the western coast of Africa, and several islands in the Gulf of Guinea, the largest of which is Bioko (formerly Fernando Po) (785 sq mi; 2,033 sq km). The other islands are Annobón, Corisco, Elobey
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