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Robert "Mwafrika" Kipkoech Cheruiyot (born 26 September 1978 in Kapsabet, Kenya ), sometimes known as Omar Ahmed, [1] is a Kenyan marathon runner and is the former record holder and four-time winner of the Boston Marathon .
McAfrika. The McAfrika was a hamburger sold by the fast food restaurant chain McDonald's in Norway and Denmark and "traded" [1] as a Limited Edition Olympic Games Burger. It attracted significant public criticism as a result of its name and the timing of its launch. [1] [2]
—Deputy Governor to Secretary of State for the Colonies, 19 March 1945 The armed rebellion of the Mau Mau was the culminating response to colonial rule. Although there had been previous instances of violent resistance to colonialism, the Mau Mau revolt was the most prolonged and violent anti-colonial warfare in the British Kenya colony. From the start, the land was the primary British ...
t. e. The Kenya African Union ( KAU) was a political organization in colonial Kenya, formed in October 1944 prior to the appointment of the first African to sit in the Legislative Council. In 1960 it became the current Kenya African National Union (KANU).
Ahmed Sékou Touré (var. Sheku Turay or Ture; N'Ko: ߛߋߞߎ߬ ߕߎ߬ߙߋ; January 9, 1922 – March 26, 1984) was a Guinean political leader and African statesman who became the first president of Guinea, serving from 1958 until his death in 1984. Touré was among the primary Guinean nationalists involved in gaining independence of the ...
Category. v. t. e. The Black Consciousness Movement ( BCM) was a grassroots anti- apartheid activist movement that emerged in South Africa in the mid-1960s out of the political vacuum created by the jailing and banning of the African National Congress and Pan Africanist Congress leadership after the Sharpeville Massacre in 1960. [1] The BCM ...
2005–present. Known for. Editorial cartooning. Jimmy Spire Ssentongo (born August 14, 1979) is a Ugandan professor, academic, columnist, portraitist, author, and editorial cartoonist. He is an Associate professor of Ethics and Identity Studies at Uganda Martyrs University (UMU). [1] He also teaches Ethics and Research methods at Makerere ...
The Dusty Foot Philosopher. (2005) The Dusty Foot on the Road. (2007) The Dusty Foot Philosopher is the debut studio album by the Somali - Canadian rapper K'naan. It was released by BMG Music on June 7, 2005, in Canada and on June 23, 2005, in the United States .