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This famous popstar and businesswoman is from Barbados and is known for her beauty line and hit song “Love on the Brain”
Who is Rihanna?
This Jamaican retired sprinter is an eight-time Olympic gold medalist and is considered the fastest man in the world.
Who is Usain Bolt?
This Jamaican patois greeting is used to ask “how are you?” or “what’s up?”
What is wah gwaan?
In 1804, this country became the world's first independent Black republic and the first country born from a successful slave revolt.
What is Haiti?
This South African Netflix teen crime drama series is set in Cape Town, South Africa.
What is Blood and Water?
This popular Ghanaian dance and music genre became a viral phenomenon in the 2010s.
What is Azonto?
What is the most spoken language in the Caribbean?
What is Spanish?
This country has the largest Black/ African-descendent population outside the African continent.
What is Brazil?
This Egyptian professional soccer player captains the Egypt national team and is considered one of the greatest African players of all time.
Who is Mohamed Salah?
This festive season with parades, music, dancing, and cultural costumes/ attire is celebrated in different ways all over the diaspora (i.e. New Orleans, the Caribbean, and Rio De Janeiro, Brazil).
What is Carnival?
These two South African languages are known as “click languages” that have distinctive consonant sounds made by suction in the mouth.
What are Zulu and Xhosa?
Sir Lynden Oscar Pindling helped lead this Caribbean country to independence and became the country’s first prime minister.
What is the Bahamas?
The West African country nicknamed “Little America” because it was founded as a settlement for freed U.S. slaves.
What is Liberia?
By combining African percussion and polyrhythms with Spanish melodies, Afro-Latinos are credited for creating and shaping these popular music and dance styles.
What is salsa, samba, cumbia, reggaeton, bachata, or rumba?
The name of this language, spoken by the Akan people of Ghana translates to "the language of the court" or "the drum language."
What is Twi?
Sir Edward Mutesa II was the first president of this East African country.
What is Uganda?
This 2004 film starring Don Cheadle tells the true story of Paul Rusesabagina and the 1994 Rwandan Genocide.
What is Hotel Rwanda?
This actor was the first Black male actor and first Bahamian to win the Academy Award for Best Actor.
Who is Sidney Poitier?
These two European languages are both spoken on the dual-nation island of Saint Martin / Sint Maarten.
What are French and Dutch?
The title of six notable Kenyan anti-colonial nationalists who were arrested in 1952 under the British state of emergency for starting and leading the Mau Mau Uprising.
Who are the Kapenguria Six?