Bingo Sheet M1

Question 1

1957

Answer 1

Ghana became the first independent African country

Question 2

1960

Answer 2

17 countries gain independence

Question 3

1961

Answer 3

Fanon, Nkrumah and Du Bois in Ghana
Lumumba suffers a coup and is killed
Coup in Syria destroys Nasser’s united Arab plans

Question 4

1974-75

Answer 4

Portugal colonies become independent
Salazar foi de mussolini kk

Question 5

Gamal Abdel Nasser

Answer 5

Pan-Arabism
Egypt revolutionary leader
Also recognized Egypt as an African country

Question 6

Amilcar Cabral

Answer 6

Politician and agronomy expert in Guiné-Bissau
Pointed by Basil as one of Africa’s most forward-thinking leaders
Assassinated in 1973

Question 7

Olaudah Equiano

Answer 7

Nigerian, studied in London
One of the first abolitionist authors in England

Question 8

Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti

Answer 8

Nigeria
Abeokuta Women’s Union
Killed at 78 by the military

Question 9

Bibi Titi Mohammed

Answer 9

Tanzania
TATU, saw a 5k increase in the women’s wing in one year

Question 10

Franz Fanon

Answer 10

Martinica
Psychiatrist
A Black man will never be seen as a true Frenchman
Liberation through revolution

Question 11

WEB Du Bois

Answer 11

African-American
Patron of Pan-Africanism
Moved to Ghana at 93 to write the Encyclopedia Africana

Question 12

Edward Wilmot Blyden

Answer 12

Cultural nationalism
Ethiopinalism
Question all discourse on Africa
Ethiopia is the metaphysical black heaven

Question 13

Pan Arabism and Pan Africanism

Answer 13

The shared identity of all Africans (and Arabs), began outside the continent

Question 14

Wangari Maathai

Answer 14

Kenya
Teacher and political activist
Green belt movement
First African female Nobel

Question 15

J.E Casely Hayford

Answer 15

Pan-Africanism
Paradox of Education

Question 16

OAU

Answer 16

1963
Organisation of African Unity
Kwame Nkrumah

Question 17

Patrice Lumumba

Answer 17

DRC
Politician and independence leader
Coup, murdered in 1961

Question 18

Mabel Dove-Danquah

Answer 18

Ghana
Lawyer
Trailblazing feminism
Elected to executive

Question 19

Leopold Senghor

Answer 19

Negritude movement
1st president of Senegal
Revolutionary on paper, pragmatic on practice

Question 20

Aimé Césure

Answer 20

Negritude
Teacher of Fanon

Question 21

Vera Chirwa

Answer 21

Malawi
Malawi League of Women

Question 22

Kwame Nkrumah

Answer 22

Ghana Independence Leader
OAU
First PM of Ghana

Question 23

UDI

Answer 23

Rhodesia’s unilateral declaration of independence

Question 24

Apartheid

Answer 24

racial segregation under the all-white government of South Africa