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People/Places-Africa
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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| In 1817, what colony was build in West Africa to transport free African-Americans to their ancestral homeland? | Liberia |
| In the late 1960s, what African country led by Mobutu Seko required citizens to drop their European names? | Zaire |
| What is the name of the East African country that the oldest human-like fossils were found? | Ethiopia |
| In 1956, what African nation gained its independence from European colonialism becoming the first African nation to begin the struggle back to traditional greatness? | Ghana |
| In the third century B.C., which great military leader of a North African city-state fought against Roman conquest in the 1st and 2nd Punic Wars? | Hannibal |
| what Kenya President led his East African nation to be freed from British colonialism? | Jomo Kenyatta |
| What Bishop from Johannesburg South Africa won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1984? | Desmond Tutu |
| On February 11, 1990, what South African revolutionary was freed from prison after 27 years? | Nelson Mandela |
| In 1991, what man became the first African (Egyptian) to head the United Nations? | Boustros Ghali |