History
What year was slavery abolished in the US?
1865
What music genre, characterized by its use of turntables and sampling, was founded in Black American communities in the Bronx, New York, in the 1970s?
Hip Hop
What's the biggest country in Africa?
Algeria
Who is the Kenyan Mexican Actress who played in Non-Stop
Lupita Nyongo
What African country won the last AFCON
Ivory Coast
What year did Nigerian become a republic
1963
Who is the father of Afrobeats?
Fela Kuti
Name one African country that hasn't been colonized?
Ethiopia and Liberia
This self made millionaire invented a cream to help hair grow back.
Madam C.J Walker
The first African American to play in the MLB.
Jackie Robinson?
After World War 1 Cameroon was placed a mandated territory of the League of nations and given to which 2 countries to rule it?
France and Britain
This music artist has the most Grammy's of all time
Beyoncé
How many countries are part of the West African Community?
16 (Benin, Burkina Faso, Cape Verde, The Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, and Togo)
Who was the first African American to have his likeness portrayed on a U.S. postage stamp?
Booker T. Washington
Cassius Clay was the greatest boxer alive, and eventually changed his name to what?
Muhammad Ali
What phrase did Malcolm X popularize to advocate for Black self-defense and empowerment?
By any means necessary
The first afrobeat song to be certified gold in the U.S
Fall-Davido
Where did the biggest race riot in American history take place
Oklahoma
Who was the first African American woman to refuse to give up her seat on a bus?
Claudette Colvin?
Before Rosa Parks, There Was Claudette Colvin Most people know about Rosa Parks and the 1955 Montgomery, Ala., bus boycott. Nine months earlier, 15-year-old Claudette Colvin refused to give up her seat on the same bus system.
Which African country has the most Afcon trophies
Egypt
Which activist’s murder in Mississippi in 1955 galvanized the civil rights movement?
Emmett Till
Who was the first African to win a Grammy?
Miriam Makeba
The country Zaire was a one-party dictatorship run by Mobutu Sese Seko. It collapsed in the 1990s and is now a part of which country
Democratic Republic of Congo
Who is the current longest-serving African Head of State
Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo (46 year rule) - Equatorial Guinea
This person won 4 gold medals in the 1936 Berlin Olympics, defying many racial stereotypes
Jesse Owens