
Jiwon Amy Yoo
Bachelor’s degree in History at the University of Washington
Master’s in Education from Teachers College Columbia University
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.
Articles by Jiwon Amy Yoo

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...
July 7th, 2009

Bandung Conference, 1955
The Afro-Asian Conference, known generally as the Bandung Conference, was to that date the largest gathering of Asian and African...
August 8th, 2009

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)...
August 11th, 2009

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...
August 16th, 2009

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...
August 16th, 2009

Niger Delta Conflict, 1990s–
The Niger Delta Conflict began in the 1990s in regards to the ongoing conflict between the militia groups of Nigeria,...
August 19th, 2009

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...
August 24th, 2009

Sultanate of Sokoto (Sokoto Caliphate): 1804-1903
The Sokoto Caliphate in Northern Nigeria was one of the largest empires in Africa during the 19th century. The empire...
August 24th, 2009

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...
August 24th, 2009

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...
October 19th, 2009

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...
October 29th, 2009

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...
November 22nd, 2009