Akan people are well known for their skill in making this type of cloth.
What is kente cloth?
100
The majority of Zulus live in this country which was colonized by Dutch and British forces.
What is South Africa?
100
Elements is this Greek mathematician's most influential work.
Who is Euclid?
100
Garrett Augustus Morgan invented this earliest version of this device (1923) that is now a part of our everyday lives. Hint: Green means go, yellow means slow, and red means stop!
What is the traffic signal?
100
South Africa is a country in this region of Africa.
What is South Africa?
200
Traditionally Zulu baskets were made with natural fibers, but today they are also made with this man-made material.
What is telephone wire?
200
Dogon people recognized this star centuries before Europeans began studying the universe.
What is Sirius?
200
This female mathematician also taught philosophy and astronomy.
Who is Hypatia?
200
This woman was the first Black woman to serve as a resident in ophthalmology at NYU (New York University).
Who is Patricia Bath?
200
Mali is a country in this region of Africa.
What is West Africa?
300
The Dogon people are best known for their study of this field of science that investigates planets and stars.
What is astronomy?
300
Although traditional beliefs involved ancestors, today many people in the Kikuyu tribe practice this religion.
What is Christianity?
300
This Egyptian was a high priest, physician, artist, engineer, fabulist, mathematician, philosopher, and poet.
Who is Imhotep?
300
This man studied to become an aerospace engineer and eventually became an astronaut. He is now in the International Space Hall of Fame.
Who is Guion Bluford (Jr.)?
300
This country with a similar name is north of Nigeria.
What is Niger?
400
Instead of using addition, the Yoruba mathematical system is based on this principle of taking away.
What is subtraction?
400
Due to former British control of the economy, this is the currency in Kenya.
What is the shilling?
400
In 400 A.D. a female Greek philosopher became the headmistress of a Platonist school in this Egyptian city.
What is Alexandria?
400
On June 4, 1987, this woman became the first Black woman ever admitted to an astronaut training program.
Who is Mae C. Jemison?
400
Accra is the capital of this country.
What is Ghana?
500
In Kenya Kikuyu people grew these plants that make hot breakfast drinks.
What is coffee?
What is tea?
500
Europeans reached the region known as Nigeria in this century.
What is the 15th century?
500
This mathematician whose name means "the one who comes in peace" lived during the reign of this pharaoh.
Who is King Djoser? (27th century BCE)
500
This mathematician, sociologist, and lawyer was the first black man to complete graduate studies in the field of mathematics (M.A. (1901).
Who is Kelly Miller?
500
This eastern edge of this country is on the coast of the Indian Ocean.