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Africa: How Technology Can Help Combat Africa's Brain-Drain!

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[The Point] For the first time, Africa-focused startup funding has crossed the $1 billion mark. Last year, African startups received a total of $1.3 billion, with over half of the total funnelled into fintech businesses.

Source: allAfrica.com
Don't neglect other diseases - UNICEF warns
While the world is mesmerized by the new coronavirus, other infectious diseases continue to kill millions of people, including many children in developing
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Source: Africanews | Latest breaking news, daily news and African news from Africa
Sponsored by Intellitech
Liberia
Tolbert was ousted in a military coup on April 12, 1980, by Master Sgt. Samuel K. Doe, backed by the U.S. government. Does rule was characterized by corruption and brutality. A rebellion led by Charles Taylor, a former Doe aide, and the National Patriotic Front of Liberia (NPFL), started in
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Apr
12
1980
Nigeria
Boko Haram, the fundamentalist Islamist sect that many thought had been obliterated in 2009, made a resurgence in 2011. In fact, the group, which had previously launched attacks locally, emerged as a transnational force possibly linked to al-Qaeda in 2011. It launched nearly daily deadly attacks in
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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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Source: Africanews | Latest breaking news, daily news and African news from Africa
Nok Art - The Earliest Sculptural Art in West Africa
Nok art refers to huge human, animal and other figures made out of terracotta pottery, found throughout Nigeria. They represent the earliest sculptural art in West Africa, dated between 500 BC and AD 500; and they co-occur with the earliest evidence of iron smelting in Africa south of the Sahara
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Awolowo, Obafemi (1909-1985)
Nigerian nationalist, politician, lawyer, statesman, and chancellor, Chief Jeremiah Obafemi Awolowo was born on March 6, 1909 in Ogun State, Nigeria, where he commenced his political
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Nigeria
April 2007 national elections—the country’s first transition from one democratically elected president to another—were marred by widespread allegations of fraud, ballot stuffing, violence, and chaos. Just days before the election, the Supreme Court ruled that the election commission’s decision to
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Davidson Nicol
Davidson Nicol , in full Davidson Sylvester Hector Willoughby Nicol, also called Abioseh Nicol (born Sept. 14, 1924, Freetown, Sierra Leone—died Sept. 20, 1994, Cambridge, Eng.), Sierra Leonean diplomat, physician, medical researcher, and writer whose short stories and poems are among the best to
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Cameroon
Cameroon kăm˝əro͞on´ [key], Fr. Cameroun, officially Republic of Cameroon, republic (2005 est. pop. 16,380,000), 183,568 sq mi (475,442 sq km), W central Africa. It is bordered on the southwest by the Gulf of Guinea, on the northwest by Nigeria, on the northeast by Chad, on the southeast by the
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Ibrahim Babangida
Born in northern Niger state, Babangida received military training in Nigeria, India, Great Britain, and the United States. He rose through the ranks and was known for his courage—he played a major role in suppressing an attempted coup in 1976 when he walked into a rebel-held radio station
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Fela Kuti
Fela Kuti , byname of Olufela Olusegun Oludotun Ransome-Kuti, also called Fela Anikulapo-Kuti (born October 15, 1938, Abeokuta, Nigeria—died August 2, 1997, Lagos), Nigerian musician and activist who launched a modern style of music called Afro-beat, which fused American blues, jazz, and funk with
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Aug
2
1997
The Black Past: Remembered and Reclaimed | An Online Reference Guide to African American History by Professor Quintard Taylor, University of Washington
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Jan
10
1945
A Brief History of the African Country of Liberia
Date of Independence: July 26,1847
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Bello, Alhaji (Sir) Ahmadu (1910-1966)
Alhaji (Sir) Ahmadu Bello was the Sardauna of Sokoto and leader of Nigeria’s northern region during the last years of British rule and early independence.  He was brutally murdered at his home during a 1966 coup détat, one in a series of events characterizing Nigeria’s political
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Jan
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1966
Africa's 100+ coronavirus cases: Uganda, Benin, Chad among new entrants
The World Health Organization Africa regional head warns that a spike likely to result in the wake of improved and increased
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Ghana coronavirus: 5,127 cases; Obuasi becomes latest hotspot
April 12: Cases hit 5,127; gold-rich Obuasi new hotspot
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Guinea bissau
National name: Républica da Guiné-Bissau
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T.M. Aluko
T.M. Aluko , in full Timothy Mofolorunso Aluko (born June 14, 1918, Ilesha, Nigeria—died May 1, 2010, Lagos), Nigerian writer whose short stories and novels deal with social change and the clash of cultures in modern
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May
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2010
Amina, African Warrior Queen of Zazzau
Known for: warrior queen, extending territory of her people. While stories about her could be legends, scholars believe she was an actual person who ruled in what is now the Zaria province of
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Es’kia Mphahlele
Es’kia Mphahlele , original name Ezekiel Mphahlele (born Dec. 17, 1919, Marabastad, S.Af.—died Oct. 27, 2008, Lebowakgomo), novelist, essayist, short-story writer, and teacher whose autobiography, Down Second Avenue (1959), is a South African classic. It combines the story of a young man’s growth
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Kappa Alpha Psi
Kappa Alpha Psi (ΚΑΨ) is a collegiate Greek-letter fraternity with a predominantly African-American membership. Since the fraternitys founding on January 5, 1911 at Indiana University Bloomington, the fraternity has never limited membership based on color, creed or national origin. The fraternity
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Afro-Puerto Ricans
revolt
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Benin 0
National name: Republique du Benin
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Azikiwe, Benjamin Nnamdi "Zik" (1904-1996) - Death
Nnamdi Azikiwe died on May 11, 1996 in Enugu, Nigeria.
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May
11
1996
Hakeem Olajuwon
Hakeem Olajuwon was born on January 21, 1963 in Lagos, Nigeria. He was born to owners of a concrete business, Salaam and Abike Olajuwon. He was the third of six siblings. The knowledge he, along with his siblings, got from his parents was virtues of hard work, discipline and respect of life. He was
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Cyprian Ekwensi
Cyprian Ekwensi , in full Cyprian Odiatu Duaka Ekwensi (born Sept. 26, 1921, Minna, Nigeria—died Nov. 4, 2007, Enugu), Igbo novelist, short-story writer, and children’s author whose strength lies in his realistic depiction of the forces that have shaped the African city
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Johnson, Joseph William "Billy" (1934–2012)
Joseph William “Billy” Johnson, an import officer for the state metal industries of Ghana, played a foundational role in establishing the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in that African nation in the 1960s. Johnson was born on December 17, 1934, in Lagos, Nigeria. While
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2012
Sierra leone
But a violent military coup ousted President Kabbahs civilian government in May 1997. The leader of the coup, Lieut. Col. Johnny Paul Koroma, assumed the title Head of the Armed Forces Revolutionary Council (AFRC). Koroma began a reign of terror, destroying the economy and murdering enemies. The
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10
1998
Nigeria
As leader of the multination peacekeeping force ECOMOG, Nigeria established itself as West Africas superpower, intervening militarily in the civil wars of Liberia and Sierra Leone. But Nigerias costly war efforts were unpopular with its own people, who felt Nigerias limited economic resources were
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The Gambia
U.S. Department of State Background Note
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The Green Book Pt I

New York City Facts

  • Third national Black convention met
  • Cullen, Countee (1903-1946)
  • Beah, Ishmael (1980– )
  • Hunter, Alberta (1895-1984)
  • Fuller, Margaret
  • Owens, Major Robert (1936- )
  • First Black Petition
  • Freeman, Harry Lawrence (1869-1954)
  • Basketball star Walt Frazier born
  • Nina Simone

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Barack Obama Facts

  • President Obama says it takes courage to help the vulnerable
  • Ancestry of Barack Obama - Family Tree and Genealogy
  • Brown, Gayleatha Beatrice (1947-2013)
  • Teaching Race in Schools in the 21st Century
  • Barack Obama, "What I Want For You--and For Every Child": A Letter to My Daughters
  • Xavier University [New Orleans] (1915- )
  • Barclay, Paris K.C. (1956- )
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  • Martin Luther King, Jr. I Have A Dream Speech
  • Blackwell, Lucien E. (1931- )
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