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Egyptian Sheikh Muhammad Ayyad al-Tantawi, one of the youngest teachers of Arabic studies in Egypt (at that time the Ottoman Empire), traveled to and worked in Russia. During his residence in Russia, he was the first to compile an Arabic grammar manual in […] … Read MoreSheikh Muhammad Ayyad al-Tantawi (1810-1861)
[…] American art and artists in major museums and galleries across the nation. On October 16, 1943 Henry Ossawa Tanner’s painting Flight into Egypt (see illustration) was hanging in the entrance hall of a home located at 127 Randolph Place in Washington, D.C. The occasion […] … Read MoreCollecting African American Art: From the Harlem Renaissance to the Obama Era
[…] time the Uzbek SSR, part of the Soviet Union). That conference featured 140 writers from 36 countries. Subsequent conferences convened in Cairo, Egypt, in February 1962, in Beirut, Lebanon, in March 1967, in New Delhi, India, in November 1970, in Almaty, Kazakhstan (at that […] … Read MoreAfro-Asian Writers’ Conferences (1958-1979)
Yosef Ben-Jochannan was an Afrocentric historian whose work is focused mainly on black presence in ancient Egypt. He contends in his writings that the pharaohs came out of the heart of Africa and that the original Jews were from Ethiopia and were black Africans, […] … Read MoreYosef Ben-Jochannan (1918-2015)
[…] Sudan from 1954 to 1956 and, also, served as President of Sudan from 1965 to 1969. Al-Azhari was born in Omdurman, Anglo- Egyptian Sudan on October 26, 1900. Anglo-Egyptian Sudan was a condominium, created by agreements concluded in 1899 between Great Britain and Egypt […] … Read MoreIsmail Al-Azhari (1900-1969)
[…] the United States and the Soviet Union. Of the twenty-nine nations that were represented in the Bandung Conference, six were from Africa: Egypt, Ethiopia, Gold Coast (present-day Ghana), Liberia, Libya, and Sudan. The leading contributors to the Bandung Conference were the nations of Burma, […] … Read MoreBandung Conference, 1955
[…] a palace in Berlin, was the son of August Sabac el Cher (1836?-1885), a Sudanese man who as an orphaned boy in Egypt was presented as a gift to Prussian Prince Friedrich Heinrich Albrecht and accompanied him back to Germany to serve the prince […] … Read MoreGustav Albrecht Sabac el Cher (1868-1934)
[…] it is the largest university in sub-Saharan Africa and the second largest on the African continent after the University of Cairo in Egypt. The institution was originally founded as the University of Northern Nigeria but was renamed in honor of the Sardauna of Sokoto, […] … Read MoreAhmadu Bello University (1962- )
[…] U.S. and developed cultural enclaves across the nation that continue to flourish to this day. The majority of immigrants originated from Nigeria, Egypt, Ethiopia, Ghana, and Kenya. Individuals from these countries accounted for more than half of the African immigrant population in 2015. African […] … Read MoreAfrican Immigration to the United States (1965- )
[…] Antananarivo, Madagascar Asmera, Eritrea Bamako, Mali Bangui, Central African Republic Banjul, Gambia Bissau, Guinea-Bissau Brazzaville, Republic of the Congo Bujumbura, Burundi Cairo, Egypt Conakry, Guinea Dakar, Senegal Dar es Salaam, Tanzania Djibouti City, Djibouti Freetown, Sierra Leone Gaborone, Botswana Harare, Zimbabwe Juba, South Sudan […] … Read MoreThe African Capitals
