West Africa
The three West African/Sudanic empires
What are Ghana, Mali, and Songhai?
The epic tale of Mali’s founder.
What is Sundiata?
The leader of the Underground Railroad and a spy for the Union Army.
Who is Harriet Tubman?
This country, which shares a border with the Dominican Republic, successfully led a revolution at the turn of the 19th century.
What is Haiti?
A community member who tells the history of their people using the kora and singing in Mali.
What is a griot?
This Malian king distributed so much gold on his hajj to Mecca that the value of gold fell for 12 years.
Who is Mansa Musa?
Yaa Gyasi wrote this novel.
What is Homegoing?
Sally Hemings was a slave and mother of six children with this former U.S. President.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
Nelson Mandela was first imprisoned in, and later became the President of, this country.
What is South Africa?
The Sierra Leonian woman in Maya Angelou’s memoir demanded this dish.
What is rice?
Books were the primary form of material wealth in this now largely forgotten city in Mali.
What is Timbuktu?
W.E.B. Du Bois published this sociological text in 1903.
What is The Souls of Black Folk?
The Organization of Afro-American Unity was launched by this speaker and writer in 1964.
Who is Malcolm X?
Contrary to popular belief, most enslaved Africans went here during the trans-Atlantic slave trade.
What is Brazil?
This river runs through most of eastern Africa and has been a primary source of trade, food, and cultural exchange for thousands of years.
What is the Nile River?
Bronze sculptures were looted from this great city and taken to museums in Great Britain.
What is Benin City?
Walter Rodney wrote this scholar-activist text in 1972.
What is How Europe Underdeveloped Africa?
This co-founder of the NAACP was the primary political opponent of Booker T. Washington in the early 1900s.
Who is W.E.B. Du Bois?
This language group started in west African forests and expanded to cover most of central, and some of southern, Africa.
What is the Bantu language group?
The predominant moral concept in ancient Egyptian religion.
What is dualism?
The names of these two Portuguese slave trade castles in Ghana.
What are Elmina and Cape Coast Castles?
Maya Angelou wrote this memoir and the poem, “And Still I Rise.”
What is All God’s Children Need Traveling Shoes?
This African-American woman became the first woman to enlist and the only documented woman to serve in the U.S. Army while posing as a man during the Indian Wars.
Who is Cathay Williams?
This east African region became a beacon of Islamic culture.
What is the Swahili region?
This North African country controls the Western Sahara territory, which makes up the 55th “country” of Africa.
What is Morocco?