Black/African Women
The Kenyan environmentalist and political activist who founded the Green Belt Movement
What is Wangari Maathai?
The historical Black neighbourhood located in Oklahoma
What is Greenwood?
The journalist and political activist who documented lynchings across the U.S., sued a railroad company and won, and helped found the NAACP
What is Ida B. Wells?
The young African leader who promoted women's liberation during his country's socialist revolution of 1983-1987
What is Thomas Sankara?
The woman who led 13 missions to free hundreds of enslaved Africans after freeing herself
What is Harriet Tubman?
He helped organise the Nation of Islam and founded the Organization of Afro-American Unity and the Muslim Mosque Incorporated
What is Malcolm X?
The 3 West African countries that have united to form the Alliance of Sahel States
What is Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso?
The 3 African countries that waged war against Portuguese colonial rule and gained their independence in the early to mid-1970s
What is Guinea Bissau, Angola and Mozambique?
The woman who worked with the Black Liberation Army and escaped from prison in 1979, fleeing to Cuba, where she resides today?
What is Assata Shakur?
The Jamaican reggae singer who sang "Africa Unite" in 1979
What is Bob Marley?
The woman and sharecropper who organised Black folks in Mississippi, famous for the quote "We are sick and tired of being sick and tired"
What is Fannie Lou Hamer?
Which country fought for its independence from the French to become the first case of enslaved Africans overthrowing their enslavers in the Americas?
What is Haiti?
She worked to advance the South African anti-apartheid movement for 27 years while her husband was in prison
What is Winnie Mandela?
The first prime minister of independent Congo
What is Patrice Lumumba?
The organisation that provided free breakfasts for children along with other survival programmes, founded in Oakland
What is the Black Panther Party?
How many African countries still use the French colonial currency, the CFA Franc?
What is 14?
The South African singer known for her political activism, otherwise known as "Mama Africa"
What is Miriam Makeba?
The country with the largest African/Black population outside the African continent
What is Brazil?
The Ghanaian woman who led the fifth Ashanti war against the British
What is Nana Yaa Asantewaa?
She helped to co-found the United Negro Improvement Association, the largest Pan-African organisation based outside the African continent
What is Amy Ashwood Garvey?