Portal:Africa/Did you know

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...that the 1459 Fra Mauro map (pictured) reports that "a junk from India" rounded the Cape of Good Hope in 1420, around 70 years before the navigations of Vasco da Gama?
...the the 1998 Sudan famine was caused by human rights abuses in the midst of the Second Sudanese Civil War?
...that Reverend John Chilembwe is celebrated as the first Malawian nationalist, and was a martyr for his cause?
...that from 1926 to 1940, the Union Minière du Haut Katanga had a virtual monopoly of the world uranium market?
...that Bono Manso, the capital of Bono state, was an ancient Akan trading town in present-day Ghana, which was frequented by caravans from Djenné as part of the Trans-Saharan trade?