Facts About Africaさんのイラストまとめ

RIP to Katherine Johnson who passed on today, 101 years. Her computations was the bedrock of major NASA breakthroughs plus the Apollo11 trajectory to the Moon.

Her title at NASA was, literally, “computer.”

Her computations were the subject of the book & movie, 'Hidden Figures'

Africa's HIV map.

A morning chat with the legendary Bob Marley on his career, Rastafarianism and Africa...

Upon Lumumba's death, protests immediately broke out in 30 MAJOR WORLD CITIES.

Protests in India & Cuba, Feb 15, 1961.

NB: He was tied to a tree, shot by a firing squad, buried, exhumed, reburied again, exhumed, hacked into pieces then dissolved in sulphuric acid

In that order

The late, great Julius Nyerere in 1959, then Tanganyika African National Union leader. After voting in this Legislative Assembly elections, he simply returned to his shop.

TANU wins propelled him to the position of Prime Minister & later President of Tanganyika (later Tanzania).

RARE clip of scenes outside the Pretoria courthouse the day Mandela & co were sentenced to life imprisonment; 12 June, 1964.

Mama Winnie was ever present all through the trial.

When the verdict was read the crowd raised their fists chanting "amandla nga weto" (strength is ours)

Dr Martin Luther King Jr. being arrested with hundreds of marchers for parading without a permit at Selma, US State of Alabama, 1965.

These negros were demonstrating against hindrances to black voting registration, which was part of the struggles of the then Civil Rights era...

#GoogleDoodle celebrates her with the Doodle of the Day: Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti’s 119th Birthday.

Known to many as the first woman to drive a car in Nigeria, she's much more than that...