Do the Right Thing ( 1989 ), Spike Lee's debut film, and The Color Purple ( 1985 ) were full character studies of African American culture and history.

* 1958 – Willie O ' Ree, the first African Canadian National Hockey League player, makes his NHL debut with the Boston Bruins.

* Marie-Elena John is a Caribbean writer whose debut novel Unburnable gives a slice of social history of the Caribbean, focusing on the African origins of Caribbean culture.

Tupac Shakur made his debut on the latter song and portrayed an African king in the video.

The Moroccan broadcaster, Société Nationale de Radiodiffusion et de Télévision ( SNRT ), made the country's debut in 1980, becoming the first African and Arab country to enter the contest.

Pothole would release two critically acclaimed albums on South Africa's most successful punk / metal label, Way-Cool Records-their debut " Force-Fed Hatred " is still the top selling South African metal album to date.

In 1953, the Congolese music scene began to differentiate itself with the formation of African Jazz ( led by Joseph " Grand Kalle " Kabasele ), the first full-time orchestra to record and perform, and the debut of fifteen-year-old guitarist François Luambo Makiadi ( aka Franco ).

Formed in 1975, their debut release, Kibudu, Mansetta And Abuku arrived on the small independent label Dip, and linked the plight of urban black youth with the image of a greater African homeland.

His Test debut came in the first match of the series, as he scored a quick 51 in his only innings and took five wickets for 36 runs in the South African second innings.

Following a group of middle-class African Americans from youth to adulthood, The Wood, the debut effort from director-screenwriter Rick Famuyiwa, co-starred Richard T. Jones and Taye Diggs and received a push from co-producers MTV Films that ensured turnout of a sizable youth audience.

" EmanuelLevy. com gave the film an A, saying it is " The most stunning feature debut in the new African American cinema, even more so than Boyz n the Hood to which the coming of age feature bears thematic resemblance.

Her film debut came in 1988 in the South African-filmed American horror film, Mutator, and shortly after won a major role in the politically sensitive South African made-for-television film A Private Life, as the daughter of an interracial couple.

Their style influenced many of the emerging African musicians of the time and even now, as Ace Ghanaian hip hop music producer Hammer of The Last Two stated that his debut production, Obrafour's ' paemuka ' album, the highest selling hiplife album to date was inspired by a single song ( Welcome Home ) by Osibisa.

He scored his debut international try against Samoa in Brisbane in the 2003 Rugby World Cup, after he was called into the South African squad as a late replacement.

The Preolympic tournament began on July 14, 2008, but Puerto Rico's debut came the following day, when the team defeated Cameroon and advanced to the second round, due to a loss that the African team had suffered during the first day of competition.

Carr was selected for England's tour of South Africa in 1922-23, and made his debut in the first Test against the South African cricket team.

His Test debut came as an opening batsman in a tour of Sri Lanka but like his father Kevin McKenzie he soon cemented his place in the South African middle order before returning to the side as an opener later in his career.

Burke made his Test debut in 1993 when he played in the Third Test against the South African Springboks.

Yakubu made his full international debut on 22 April 2000 in a 4 – 0 home win in Lagos against Eritrea in qualification for the 2002 African Cup of Nations.

The opening song of their debut album, Rock ' n ' Roll, was voted by the South African Rock Digest as one of the Top 30 South African songs of 2003.

Guinea made their footballing debut on 2 October 1960 at the 1960 West African Games in Nigeria, and lost 4 – 1 to the hosts.

A third McLaren, driven by South African Jody Scheckter in his F1 debut, was eighth.

The pair eventually asked drummer and percussionist Dave Reilly to join them, and in 1982 they released their debut single " African and White " as China Crisis on the independent record label, Inevitable.

Khumalo made his film acting debut with the German / South African production Themba.

Together with earlier arrivals to the United States ( including the indigenous American Indians, Hispanic and Latino Americans, particularly in the West, Southwest, and Texas ; African Americans who came to the United States in the Atlantic slave trade ; and early colonial migrants from Britain, France, Germany, Spain, and elsewhere ), these new waves of immigrants had a pro profound impact on national or regional cuisine.

This is significant as Africans came from a vast geographic region, the West African coastline stretching from Senegal to Angola and in some cases from the south east coast such as Mozambique.

A major military base was built in Kenya, and the African colonies came under an unprecedented degree of direct control from London.

He came from a family environment in which the conservatism of traditional white South African politics was deeply ingrained.

It came under artillery fire from the three South African brigade groups and was forced to dig in.

The first influences of African American Culture into hymns came from Slave Songs of the United States a collection of slave hymns complied by William Francis Allen who had difficulty pinning them down from the oral tradition, and though he succeeded, he points out the awe inspiring effect of the hymns when sung in by their originators.

The decision came after several mass slaughters of African elephants, most notably the 2006 Zakouma elephant slaughter in Chad.

Prior to 1979, the symbol < span style =" font-size: 112 %"></ span > ( script small l, U + 2113 ), came into common use in some countries ; for example, it was recommended by South African Bureau of Standards publication M33 and Canada in the 1970s.

Since these sites could not be classified as Mesopotamian, North African, or Arabian, they came to be referred to as " Levantine.

In the year 2000 only 10 million visitors came to countries in the region of the Southern African Development Community ( SADC ).

The " Catawaba tribe in 1752 showed great anger and bitter resentment when an African American came among them as a trader.

By studying grassroots activism and the lived experiences of its participants, her high school students came to appreciate how African Americans worked to end Jim Crow laws in the 1950s.

For years, Europeans in Africa had heard of an animal that they came to call the ' African unicorn '.

South Africa's police quickly came to regard PAGAD as part of the problem, rather than a partner in the fight against crime and they were eventually designated a terrorist organization by the South African government.

This African Iron Age culture came under great pressure with the arrival of the first Europeans, being in this case the Portuguese explorers.

Thus, most slaves came from Madagascar and Asia rather than the African mainland.

The Adalites then came under the influence of the expanding Horn African Kingdom of Ifat, and prospered under its patronage.

His army came out victorious during the Bardheere jihad, which restored stability in the region and revitalized the East African ivory trade.

Lacy's first visit to Europe came in 1965, with a visit to Copenhagen in the company of Kenny Drew ; he went to Italy and formed a quartet with Italian trumpeter Enrico Rava and the South African musicians Johnny Dyani and Louis Moholo ( their visit to Buenos Aires is documented on The Forest and the Zoo, ESP, 1967 ).

Although much of Zanzibar's African population came from the mainland, one group known as Shirazis traces its origins to the island's early Persian settlers.

In a second five year plan, which came out of a consultative meeting held in March 2007 with partners, the programme will additionally, work with a number of Partner Universities to develop full fledged Master's degree programmes to be based at African Universities.

In October 1926, Goldkette's " Famous Fourteen ," as they came to be called, opened at the Roseland Ballroom in New York City opposite the Fletcher Henderson Orchestra, one of the East Coast's outstanding African American big bands.

Protestantism, including Anglicanism, came to North America, Australia-Pacific and some African locales.

Houphouët-Boigny first came to political prominence in 1944 as founder of the Syndicat Agricole Africain, an organization that won improved conditions for African farmers and formed a nucleus for the PDCI.

Eastwood's 30th directorial outing came with Invictus, a film based on the story of the South African team at the 1995 Rugby World Cup, with Morgan Freeman as Nelson Mandela, Matt Damon as rugby team captain François Pienaar and Grant L. Roberts as Ruben Kruger.