by DanielsDouglasHenry | Apr 21, 2023 | African American History, People
Nora Holt was an important figure in the history of Black music in Chicago in the 1930s and was a noted musician, composer, and renowned singer and performer during the Harlem Renaissance in the 1940s. While employed as a music critic for the Chicago Defender from...
by | Feb 14, 2023 | African American History, People
Dr. Lisa DeNell Cook is an economist and a member of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors. She is the first African American woman to sit on the Board. Cook was born in 1964 and raised in Milledgeville, Georgia. She is one of three daughters of Payton B. Cook and...
by | May 16, 2022 | African Head of State, Global African History, People
Mohamed Bazoum was sworn in as the president of Niger on April 2, 2021. Bazoum was born on January 1, 1960, at Bilabrine, Cercle N’guigme in Niger. His family were members of the Diffa Arab minority. He attended local schools in Niger. He then studied philosophy at...
by | May 11, 2022 | African Head of State, Global African History, People
Macky Sall, the fourth and current president of Senegal, was born on December 1, 1961, in Fatick, Senegal to Amadou Abdoul Sall and his wife, Coumba Thimbo. Fatick is a town in central Senegal where most people speak Wolof or Serer but his parents are Fula people from...
by | May 11, 2022 | African Head of State, Global African History, People
On October 1, 2021, Mamady Doumbouya was sworn in as the interim president of Guinea. This was after the former president, Alpha Conde, was overthrown in a coup orchestrated by Doumbouya on September 5, 2021. Mamady Doumbouya was born in Kankan, Guinea on March 4,...
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