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the Black African Students Federation in France (F.E.A.N.F.) opposed the French 1965 Loi Cadre, which it considered as a move to Balkanize Africa?
the African and Malagasy Union was a former intergovernmental organization created to promote cooperation among African states, but went defunct in 1985?
the Egyptian Geological Museum, established in Cairo in 1904, was the first of its kind in Africa?
the Egyptian National Railways can trace its origin to the first railway in Africa and the Middle East, which began operating in 1854?
the Grotto at Goldney House (pictured), Bristol, which dates from 1739, is encrusted with the shells of over 200 African and Caribbean species?
the 1951 Gold Coast legislative election was the first to be held in Africa under universal suffrage?
the West African trade union centre CGTA, a splinter-group of the French CGT, rejected the notion of class struggle, stating that there were no antagonistic classes in Africa?
the rhinoceros botfly Gyrostigma rhinocerontis is the largest fly known in Africa?
the Cretaceous terrestrial crocodilian Araripesuchus is known from five distinct species, two from Africa and the other three from South America?
the African city of Careysburg, Liberia, hosted a large transmitter for Voice of America, the official external broadcasting service of the United States federal government?
the dum dum bullet invented by Neville Bertie-Clay was used by the British Army against African and Asian opponents but was considered "too cruel" for use against Europeans?
the larvae (pictured) and pupae of African beetles in the genus Diamphidia are used by Bushmen to prepare arrow poisons?
the Polish interbellum organization Maritime and Colonial League‎ promoted Polish colonies and settlements in Africa and South America?
the nematode Elaeophora sagitta is a parasite that infests the heart and blood vessels of animals such as buffaloes and kudus in Africa?
the Hideyo Noguchi Africa Prize, for achievements in medical research and services to combat diseases in Africa, is named after a Japanese scientist whose portrait can be found on recent ¥1000 banknotes?
the Métro léger de Tunis (pictured), a public transport system using light rail, is the only one of its kind in Africa?
the largest African crocodile, the Nile crocodile, is both hated and revered, especially in Ancient Egypt where crocodiles were mummified, and worshipped as gods?
the first Chinese migrant to Madagascar arrived in 1862, starting a community that would become Africa's third-largest Chinese population?
the plant genus Tricarpelema contains seven Asian species from moist tropical forests and one African species found on dry inselbergs?
the resort town Arniston, Western Cape near Cape Agulhas, the southern-most tip of Africa, was named after Arniston, an East Indiaman that shipwrecked in the vicinity in 1815?
while in charge of the MESAN political party, President for Life Jean-Bédel Bokassa appointed Elisabeth Domitien to serve as the prime minister of the Central African Republic, making her Africa's first female head of government?
the third, fourth, and fifth highest mountain peaks in Africa are located in Rwenzori Mountains National Park in Uganda?
the definitive image of the African and Caribbean goddess Mami Wata was based on a poster of a Samoan snake charmer?
the ancient marketplace of Rhapta on the east African coast is believed to have been an important link in bringing the spices cinnamon and cassia west by merchants?
the Niger stingray and the pincushion ray are the only two freshwater stingrays found in Africa?
the Minkébé National Park in Gabon is believed by the WWF to have one of the largest forest elephant populations in Africa?
the Nigeria women's national basketball team became the first African team ever to win an Olympic game in women's basketball at the 2004 Summer Olympics?
the Rift Valley lakes of Africa are a freshwater ecoregion?
the Hypothenemus hampei, a small coleopter insect native to Africa, is recognized for being the most harmful pest to coffee crops worldwide?
the United States Africa Command, the newest U.S. military Unified Combatant Command, will cover all of Africa, except for Egypt?
the African mustard Subularia monticola can be found forming a dense mat on sometimes flooded muds in a lake on Mount Elgon at 4,150 meters (13,620 ft) high?
the 1402 Korean Kangnido map fully depicts the Old World, from Europe and Africa to Japan, long before European explorations?
Kalulu (pictured), an African boy who died in 1877, was modelled in Madame Tussauds and attended Dr. Livingstone's funeral in London?
Halle Jørn Hanssen was Norway's first television correspondent stationed in an African country?
Lott Cary was an African American slave who became educated, bought his freedom, became a minister and physician, and helped found the Colony of Liberia in Africa in 1822?
Mittelafrika was a prospective colony of the German Empire, articulating their aim to annex the land area stretching across Africa from the Atlantic to the Indian Ocean?
Safi Faye is a Senegalese film director whose work is better known in Europe than in her native Africa?
Pointe des Almadies (pictured) is the westernmost point on the continent of Africa?
Gershom Sizomu of Uganda is the first native-born black rabbi in Africa?
freak waves are common near Cape Algulhas off the southern tip of Africa?
advertisements featuring the character Michael Power doubled Guinness sales in Africa between 1999 and 2003?
800 metres runner Andrew Hart was the fastest non-African in his event at the 1998 Commonwealth Games?
German philosopher Leo Frobenius thought that all non-European culture in Africa had to be the result of a white civilization which he called the African Atlantis?
Safi Faye's 1975 film Kaddu Beykat was the first commercially distributed feature film made by a Sub-Saharan African woman?
Dowlish Wake was the home of John Hanning Speke who explored Africa in the mid–19th century in search of the source of the Nile?
Anne-Marie Javouhey, the founder and abbess of a new religious order, was one of the first women to establish missions in Africa?
Samuel Jackman Prescod became the first person of African descent elected to the Parliament of Barbados?
Semuliki National Park in Uganda is one of the richest areas of floral and faunal diversity in Africa?
despite being a widely-used garden plant on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean, Salvia interrupta can only be found in nature in the Atlas Mountains in the African country of Morocco?
Anglo-Sudanese entrepreneur Mo Ibrahim is offering a US$ 5 million prize, plus $200,000 a year for life, to an African leader whose term as head of state meets certain criteria?
excavations at the village of Timerevo near Yaroslavl-on-the-Volga revealed a huge number of African dirhams and a chess piece, all inscribed with Runic graffiti?
in the 1890s, Moloundou, Cameroon was considered "one of the richest rubber areas of Africa"?
on Africa’s coast, Guachanche barracuda are normally found from Senegal to Angola (including Cape Verde), but can also be found much further north off the Canary islands?
in the next five years, 40,000 African soldiers will be trained to conduct peace support operations and humanitarian relief under the African Contingency Operations Training and Assistance program?
Varanus albigularis (pictured), a species of monitor lizard found in southern Africa, may be able to count as high as six?
Genlisea margaretae, a carnivorous plant native to Southeast Africa, has the smallest recorded flowering plant genome?
Tofiri Kibuuka, one of the first blind men to reach the summit of Mount Kilimanjaro, was the first African to compete at the Winter Paralympic Games?
The Paperboys are an award-winning Canadian folk music band that blends Celtic folk with Bluegrass, Mexican, Eastern European, African, zydeco, soul and country influences?
WildlifeDirect was established in 2006 to support wildlife protection in Africa via the use of weblogs?
Yunfa, a 19th-century ruler of the Africa kingdom of Gobir, made a personal attempt on the life of Fulani reformer Usman dan Fodio, triggering the Fulani War?
Ancistrochilus rothschildianus is a species of semi-terrestrial orchid endemic to the African tropics?
"Bitaqat Khub" is the first and only Eurovision Song Contest to have been performed in Arabic, and also the first and only entry to have represented an African country?