Okumu in his book titled The African Renaissance writes very keenly on the importance of developing science and technology:

Okumu in his " The African Renaissance " underlines the point that the term development and such forms as undeveloped, developing and developed require a more precise awareness than is generally accorded them.

Fredros Okumu, of Ifakara Health Institute in Tanzania, received grants in 2009 and 2011 to develop mosquito attractants and traps to combat malaria.

Ronald Reagan Okumu and Michael Nyeko Ocula are from the Forum for Democratic Change ( FDC ), the movement believed to pose the greatest threat to the reelection of President Yoweri Museveni in 2006.

He was, together with Pancras Oteyo Okumu, found guilty and hanged in 1987.

* DVC Academic: Prof. John Okumu

Alston was active in the Harlem Renaissance ; Alston was the first African American supervisor for the Works Progress Administration's Federal Art Project.

: The protea is an emblem of the beauty of our land and the flowering of our potential as a nation in pursuit of the African Renaissance.

He has also tried to popularise the concept of an African Renaissance.

Attractions in Dakar include major markets, Dakar Grand Mosque ( built in 1964 ), Dakar Cathedral, Gorée Island, the IFAN Museum of West African culture, the newly completed African Renaissance Monument, clifftop walks and beaches, and Hann Park, home to Senegal Zoo.

The linear form of African sculpture and the depictive humanism of the figurative Renaissance painters informed his work.

Green Cove Springs is also the birthplace of Augusta Savage Augusta Christine Fells ( February 29, 1892-March 26, 1962 ) Savage was an African American sculptor associated with the Harlem Renaissance.

A monument from the people of Carrara, Italy to given to the city of Cape Town to " celebrate the first ten years of the African Renaissance ( 1994-2004 ).

The African Renaissance is the concept that African people and nations overcome the current challenges confronting the continent and achieve cultural, scientific, economic, etc.

The African Renaissance concept was first articulated by Cheikh Anta Diop in a series of essays beginning in 1946, which are collected in his book " Towards the African Renaissance: Essays in Culture and Development, 1946-1960 ,".

This concept has been popularized by South African President Thabo Mbeki during his term of office, heralding the beginning of The African Renaissance, and it continues to be a key part of the post-apartheid intellectual agenda.

The essays, which are seen as a form of blueprint, are collected in book form as " Towards the African Renaissance: Essays in Culture and Development, 1946-1960 ".

In April 1997, Mbeki articulated the elements that comprise the African Renaissance: social cohesion, democracy, economic rebuilding and growth, and the establishment of Africa as a significant player in geo-political affairs.

In June 1997, an advisor to Mbeki, Vusi Maviembela, wrote that the African Renaissance was the " third moment " in post-colonial Africa, following decolonization and the outbreak of democracy across the continent during the early 1990s.

Deputy President Mbeki himself melded the various reforms he had discussed to a tone of optimism under the rubric " African Renaissance " in a speech in August 1998

On October 11, 1999, the African Renaissance Institute ( ARI ) was founded at an inaugural meeting in Pretoria.

: The most important and primary role of the African Renaissance Institute now and in the coming years is to gather a critical mass of first-class African scientists and to give them large enough grants on a continuing basis, as well as sufficient infrastructure, to enable them to undertake meaningful problem-solving R & D applied to industrial production that will lead to really important results of economic dimensions.

Among other things the African Renaissance is a philosophical and political movement to end the violence, elitism, corruption and poverty that seem to plague the African continent, and replace them with a more just and equitable order.

The probable answer is that it will do so just as long as Russia can exercise a veto in favor of chaos and until young African nations wake up to the truth that out of false pride they are visiting ruin on Central Africa.

An excellent article was published recently in the Journal Of The Church Peace Union by a South African journalist on the inhuman economic conditions of the blacks in South Africa, amounting to virtual slavery, and the economic complicity of both the government and the people of the United States in these conditions.

Angola-South Africa relations are quite strong as the ruling parties in both nations, the African National Congress in South Africa and the MPLA in Angola, fought together during the Angolan Civil War and South African Border War.

* 1942 – Jacob Zuma, African politician, President of South Africa

The Africa Alphabet ( also International African Alphabet or IAI alphabet ) was developed in 1928 under the lead of Diedrich Westermann.

African art existed in many forms and styles, and with fairly little influence from outside Africa.

African Americans ( also referred to as Black Americans or Afro-Americans, and formerly as American Negroes ) are citizens or residents of the United States who have total or significant partial ancestry from any of the native populations of Sub-Saharan Africa.

Non-poor whites in the uplands avoided crops imported from Africa because of the perceived inferiority of crops of the African slaves.

They were from hundreds of tribes across West Africa, and brought with them certain traits of West African music including call and response vocals and complex rhythmic music, as well as syncopated beats and shifting accents.

* 1994 – South African general election, 1994: The first democratic general election in South Africa, in which black citizens could vote.

Lula da Silva's recent visit to Africa included State visits to three Portuguese-speaking African nations ( Angola, São Tomé and Príncipe, and Mozambique ).

These directives implied precise emphasis on: the search for political coordination with emerging and developing countries, namely India, South Africa, Russia and China ; creation of the Union of South American Nations and its derivative bodies, such as the South American Security Council ; strengthening of Mercosul ; projection at the Doha Round and WTO ; maintenance of relations with developed countries, including the United States ; undertaking and narrowing of relations with African countries ; campaign for the reform of the United Nations Security Council and for a permanent seat for Brazil ; and defense of social objectives allowing for a greater equilibrium between the States and populations.

Bongos are found in dense tropical jungles with dense undergrowth up to an altitude of 4, 000 meters ( 12, 800 ft ) in Central Africa, with isolated populations in Kenya, and the following west African countries: -

File: England ; London-The British Museum, Facade South Front ~-Main Entrance + West Wing-Collonade + The Africa Garden. 2. JPG | African Garden-created by BBC TV programme Ground Force

* BBS, collective term for the former South African High Commission Territories of Basutoland, Bechuanaland Protectorate and Swaziland, administered by the British High Commissioner for Southern Africa

Their nationalism was born out of hundreds of years of fighting against imperialism, a continuing struggle for independence battling mainly British expansion into central South Africa, as well as the harsh African climate and a strong sense of nationhood.

Afrikaner directly translated means " African " and subsequently refers to all Afrikaans speaking people in Africa who have their origins in the Cape Colony founded by Jan Van Riebeeck.

Italy had only two recently-obtained African territories, both located near Ethiopia on the Horn of Africa: Eritrea and Somali-land.

( 1988 ) The race to Fashoda: European colonialism and African resistance in the scramble for Africa, 1st ed., London: Bloomsbury, ISBN 0-7475-0113-0

A " diddley bow " is a typically homemade American string instrument of African origin, probably developed from instruments found on the coast of west Africa.

* Confederation of African Rugby, the governing body for rugby unions in Africa

After a referendum on territorial autonomy on 28 September 1958, French Equatorial Africa was dissolved, and its four constituent states – Gabon, Congo ( Brazzaville ), the Central African Republic, and Chad became autonomous members of the French Community from 28 November 1958.