Music/Art/Culture
Movements/Revolts
Revolutionary Leaders
The Diaspora
Queerstory
100
Black Artists from Brooklyn who mixed graffiti with highly expressionistic work and scrawled text
Jean-Michel Basquiat
100
Ancient city in Mali that was a flourishing centre for the trans-Saharan salt and gold trade which also grew as a a center for Islamic culture.
Timbuktu
200
African-American entrepreneur, philanthropist, and a political and social activist. Considered to be the wealthiest African American businesswoman and wealthiest self made woman in America at the time of her death in 1919.
Madame CJ Walker
200
This country has the largest population of African descent people outside Africa
Brazil
300
What is this cloth called and what peoples/ where does it originate from?
Kente cloth is a cloth of royal status originating from the Ashanti people in Ghana
300
movement influenced by the Harlem Renaissance during the 30s-50s that began among French-speaking African and Caribbean writers living in Paris as a protest against French colonial rule and the policy of assimilation.
Negritude
300
Mansa Musa, richest person in history who made a pilgrimage to Mecca and ruled during the golden age of the Mali empire.
400
What does this painting depict
Takes place during the Haitian Revolution lead by Toussaint Louverture.
400
This was the name of the program the FBI used to dismantle the Black Panther Party and take down important prominent black leaders.
Edward Hoovers COINTELPRO Program
500
name this instrument and describe it's significance to western African music and tradition
Griots
500
This monarch of the Mbundu people, was a resilient leader who fought against the Portuguese and their expanding slave trade in Central Africa. Well into their 60s this person still led troops and also orchestrated guerilla attacks on the Portuguese which would continue long after their death and inspire the ultimately successful 20th Century armed resistance against the Portuguese that resulted in independent Angola in 1975.
Queen Nzinga Mbande