Courtney Faal
Courtney Faal is currently working on her BA at the University of Washington, Seattle. She hopes to complete her degree in International Studies with a focus on African Studies. After graduation Courtney hopes to work in West Africa.
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The Partition of Africa
The Partition of Africa began in earnest with the Berlin Conference of 1884-1885, and was the cause of most of...
Idi Amin (1925-2003)
Idi Amin was the Ugandan military dictator and President from 1971 to 1979. During his reign Amin’s military forces are...
Mahommah Gardo Baquaqua (ca. 1824-ca. 1857)
Mahommah Gardo Baquaqua’s biography is the only known biography of a former slave from Brazil. Baquaqua was born around 1824...
Chinua Achebe (1930-2013)
Chinua Achebe of Nigeria was one of the most famous 20th Century African writers. He published his first novel Things...
Wangari Muta Maathai (1940-2011)
Wangari Maathai, the most prominent environmental activist in Africa, was the 2004 recipient of the Alfred Nobel Peace Prize. Wangari...
Omar Ibn Said (1770-1864)
Omar Ibn Said, also known as “Uncle Moreau” was unusual among enslaved people in the antebellum United States in that...
Benjamin Nnamdi “Zik” Azikiwe (1904-1996)
Nnamdi Azikiwe was the first President of Nigeria and was instrumental in founding a string of newspapers across Nigeria. Azikiwe...
Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa (1912-1966)
Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa was the first Prime Minister of Nigeria before and after Nigerian independence from Great Britain in...
Robert Gabriel Mugabe (1924-2019)
Robert Mugabe led Zimbabwe from its independence in 1980 until he was forced to step down in 2017. He remained...
Mouride Sufi Brotherhood
The Mouride Sufi Brotherhood is a sect of Islam that boasts over four million followers today, mostly concentrated in Senegal...
