Jiwon Amy Yoo
Jiwon Amy Yoo earned her Bachelor’s degree in History at the University of Washington in 2009 and her Master’s in Education from Teachers College Columbia University in 2011. She has been teaching middle school since 2012.
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Omar/Albert-Bernard Bongo (1935-2009)
Omar Bongo was President of Gabon from 1967 until his death in 2009, over 42 years, and thus ruled longer...
Bandung Conference, 1955
The Afro-Asian Conference, known generally as the Bandung Conference, was to that date the largest gathering of Asian and African...
Joseph-Désiré/ Mobutu, Sese Seko Kuku Waza Banga Mobutu (1930-1997)
Joseph Mobutu, named Joseph-Désiré Mobutu at birth, was the second president of Zaire (now called the Democratic Republic of Congo)...
Moïse Kapenda Tshombe (1919–1969)
Moïse Kapenda Tshombe was the president of Katanga, once a secessionist state of Congo immediately after the country’s independence in...
Omar Hassan Ahmad al-Bashir (1944- )
Omar Hassan Ahmad al-Bashir (or Umar Hassan Ahmad el-Bashir) became president of Sudan in 1993 but first gained military power...
Niger Delta Conflict, 1990s–
The Niger Delta Conflict began in the 1990s in regards to the ongoing conflict between the militia groups of Nigeria,...
Joseph Kasavubu (ca. 1910-1969)
Joseph Kasavubu was the first president of the Republic of Congo, serving from 1960 to 1965. He assumed the office...
Sultanate of Sokoto (Sokoto Caliphate)
The Sokoto Caliphate in Northern Nigeria was one of the largest empires in Africa during the 19th century. The empire...
Hausa City States (ca. 1000-1815)
The Hausa City States were independent political entities in what is now northern Nigeria. The first of the states, Gobir...
Toni Cade Bambara (1939-1995)
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Miltona Mirkin Cade, better known as Toni Cade Bambara, was a civil rights activist, writer, teacher, and filmmaker. She was...
Edwidge Danticat (1969- )
American novelist Edwidge Danticat was born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti on January 19, 1969. Like many Haitian families, her parents fled...
Darwin T. Turner (1931-1991)
Darwin Theodore Troy Turner was an African American literature critic, a poet, and an English professor who was born in...
