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| Displaying Africa Anecdotes: 71 Found |
Political Stew?
In January 1950, Victor Biaka-Boda, a former witch doctor representing the Ivory...
The Human Circus
In 1878, the twenty-one-year-old Joseph Thomson served as geologist and natural ...
Live From Baghdad
In March 2003, Phesheya Dube, Swaziland state radio's "man in Baghdad" gave seve...
Emperor Menelik: Electric M...
As part of a vigorous campaign to modernize Abyssinia (Ethiopia) in 1890, Empero...
Bill Maher: Diamonds are Fo...
"Women think about diamonds the way men think about sex, the way leeches think a...
Albert Schweitzer: Jungle H...
Many of the poverty-stricken patients admitted to Albert Schweitzer's jungle hos...
Liberian Politics
In 1928, Charles King was elected President of Liberia by a majority of 600,000 ...
Judge Hoyt: Banana off a Tree?
"One of a few African-Americans appointed to the federal bench by President Reag...
Wattle
"I once did a deal with Tiny Rowlands about selling wattle in East Africa," Jim ...
Robert Mugabe: Zimbabwe Herald
In May 2002, a journalist on assignment for The Economist spent some time...
Lastman in Africa
In June 2001, shortly before meeting with African Olympic officials in Mombassa,...
Idi-ot?
In 1979, a rebel army of Tanzanians and Ugandan exiles invaded Uganda and depose...
Central African Republic
Fortunately for geographically-challenged viewers, NBC sports commentator Bob Co...
10%? (long)
The massive corruption which Keith Richburg encountered while working as a corre...
Escape Artist
Shortly after his escape from prison during the Boer War, Winston Churchill deli...
Government House
"Sir Andrew Cohen had invited Ava [Gardner], Grace [Kelly], Clark [Gable], Frank...
African Lion Safari
Little love was lost between Theodore Roosevelt and J. P. Morgan. In 1902, Morga...
African Coup
In 1972, Frederick Forsyth led a $200,000 scheme to overthrow the government of ...
Verwoerd Assassination
South African prime minister Hendrik Verwoerd was assassinated in Cape Town in 1...
Moron Mugabe
In 2002, Zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe instituted a disastrous land-reform ...
Colonialism & Barbarism
"Today, it is also hard to look at [the famous explorer Sir Henry Morton Stanley...
Charles Taylor & Liberian D...
In 1989, Charles Taylor started a civil war in Liberia with the stated aim of ov...
Zimbabwe Farce
As the Zimbabwe's economy collapsed at the turn of the millennium, artists and c...
Thuggish Dictatorship of Ro...
Opponents of the thuggish dictatorship of Zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe oft...
Ronald Reagan: American Aid
Ronald Reagan once delivered a memorable speech on American aid to developing co...
JNRA?
A gentleman once traveled from Johannesburg to Pretoria to obtain American natur...
Baaad Idea?
One day on the Kenyan set of the 1964 film Mister Moses, a Masai chief at...
Tummy Time
Winston Churchill and Tonga's Queen Salote Tupou were among the esteemed guests ...
Loony Mbeki
In July 2000, as part of a planned reorganization of local governments, South Af...
Mbeki's AIDS Panel
In 1999, South African president Thabo Mbeki refused to distribute AZT to pregna...
Toilet Summit
At the World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg in 2002, South Af...
Pants on Fyre?
18th Century African explorers were not noted for respecting the rights of indig...
Kinshasha Chicken
"Reg Gutteridge, In Kinshasha, Zaire, to report on the Muhamad Ali-George Forema...
Peter Menzel: Snack Time
Peter Menzel, while traveling the globe to research insect consumption in variou...
Joffe Collared?
One day during the filming of a hunting scene on the set of Vatel, actres...
Sewing Tribesmen
By 1861, Isaac Merritt Singer's sewing machines (which Mahatma Gandhi called "on...
Mugabe Muzzle
"Freedom of Speech" was a foreign notion to Zimbabwean dictator Robert Mugabe, a...
Michael Jackson: Hollywood ...
According to Vanity Fair magazine, Michael Jackson visited Switzerland in...
Queen Mum
One day during a royal tour of South Africa (in 1947), King George VI and Queen ...
Gambian Gift
"Sir Michael Adeane, the Queen's Private Secretary, would send out a six-thousan...
Bismarck's Africa
Even at the height of British, French, Spanish, Portuguese and Dutch colonialism...
Jack Assoumani
In 2002, Azali Assoumani won a national election on the tiny African island nati...
Jeffrey Sachs in Africa
When Jeffrey Sachs visited Bolivia to observe its 60,000 percent hyperinflation ...
Winston Churchill: Cable to...
When Great Britain's power was at its zenith, news reached the House of Commons ...
Upper Volta
Shortly after his first appointment as an Ambassador, to Upper Volta and Dahomey...
Mungo Park?
While exploring a particularly wild region of Africa, Mungo Park happened upon a...
Farewell Gesture?
"One of Daniel arap Moi's monuments to himself is a big concrete fist, clutching...
"Stitching"
"Stitching, a video by David Sherry, has already caused controversy. It is truly...
King Kodoko: Tyrant King
"King Kodoko of the Congo managed to hang on to his crown for three years after ...
Stephan Eicher: Matterhorn ...
In March 2005, Switzerland issued an 85-centime stamp featuring the Matterhorn (...
Fast Runners
During the Sydney Olympics Kenyan long-distance runner Kip Lagat was asked why h...
World's Shortest War
On August 27th, 1896, a British battle fleet delivered Said Khalid, the pretende...
Mugabe
Zimbabwean dictator Robert Mugabe was widely loathed for the economic policies (...
Bad Omen
"Lobengula granted land and mineral rights in his kingdom (now part of Zimbabwe)...
Environmental Defense Fund:...
"Because most environmentalists continue to support the ban [on the pesticide DD...
Lauren Hutton: Jungle Bunny
The model and former Playboy Bunny Lauren Hutton once lived with various tribes ...
Lauren Hutton: Eating Termites
"I was hanging out with this tribe in the interior of the Congo," Lauren Hutton ...
King Leopold II: Greed and ...
"Congo has always been a nation of unreal extremes, of heat and chaos, greed and...
Graham Greene: Morbid Curio...
In 1935, following the success of Stamboul Train (published in the United...
Shaka & the Iklwa
"In 19th-century southern Africa, tribes had a civilized way of waging war. They...
Lord's Prayer in Zimbabwe
Ordained as a Methodist minister in 1962, Reverend Canaan Banana denounced the w...
Jamie Foxx: Welcome to Sout...
Several of the scenes in Michael Mann's Ali were filmed in Africa. "It wa...
Yamile Aldama: Athletes for...
Though she lived in London, Cuban-born triple jumper, Yamile Aldama, was prevent...
Black Pimpernel (long)
In 1961, Nelson Mandela ("the Black Pimpernel") went underground for more than a...
Devout Muslim?
On April 11th, 1979, Ugandan tyrant Idi Amin was ousted from power by a force of...
Oh Shucks!
One day in September 2003, South African comedian and film maker Leon Schuster a...
Laurens van der Bogus
In 1977, South African author Sir Laurens van der Post wrote a book chronicling ...
Amin Luck
"On January 24 1971, Major General Idi Amin Dada, Commander of Uganda's armed fo...
African Passport
In the late 1940s, Leonard Howell, a Caribbean religious leader, was jailed for ...
School Boycott
"In the nineteen-seventies, school boycotts became a popular form of civil disob...
Moroccan Moron
In November 2002, Morocco's jet-setting king, Mohammed VI, caused a minor scanda...
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