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Question 1:Question 1:

Where is the southernmost point in

Africa?

Question 2:Question 2:

Which country borders Algeria on the north,

Niger on the east, Burkina Faso and Cote d’Ivoire on the south, Guinea on the south-

west, and Senegal and Mauritania on the west?

Question 3:Question 3:

Outside Africa, in which country do you

find the largest population of direct

African descendants?

Question 4:Question 4:

What do these African singers: Youssou

N’dour, Cesaria Evora & Ladysmith Black Mambazo have in

common ?

Who said : “I have cherished the ideal of a

democratic and free society in which all persons live

together in harmony with equal opportunities. It is an

ideal which I hope to live for and to achieve. But, if needs be, it is an ideal for

which I am prepared to die”

Question 5:Question 5:

Question 6:Question 6:

Where was the first University ever built in

Africa?

Question 7:Question 7:

Which movie received the Oscar for “Best Foreign Language” movie during the

78th Academy awards on March 5, 2006 ?

Question 8:Question 8:

In which language is the famous

Walt Disney’s

theme for the Lion

King « Hakuna

Matata »  ?

Ibrahim Petrovitch Gannibal (1696 – 1781), was abducted from his native Eritrea at the

age of 7, taken to live in Istanbul as a slave, then sent as a gift to Tsar Peter the Great.

He later became major general, military engineer and governor of Reval. He is better known as the great grand father of

which famous writer?

Question 9:Question 9:

Question 10:Question 10:

In 1415, the king of Malindi, Kenya, sent a

present to the emperor of China, which the Chinese, impressed, referred to as

a "celestial unicorn". What kind of gift was

it?

Question 11:Question 11:

Name:

1. the first African country to gain independence

2. the last one , and

3. the only one that was never colonized

Question 12:Question 12:

Which European avant-garde artistic

movement was greatly inspired by African

art?

Face Mask, Fang (Gabon). Wood.

19th/20th C

Question 13:Question 13:

The Rastafari movement is a religious movement that

emerged in Jamaica in the early 1930s and has now more

than one million adepts. Its most famous representative was Bob Marley, the reggae

singer.

What did the word Rastafari initially refer to ?

Question 14:Question 14:

How many Africans have won the Nobel

Peace Prize?

Question 15:Question 15:

Where did the first

Pan -African

Congress meet, on July 23, 1900?

WEB Dubois

Question 16:Question 16:

Which countries share Victoria Lake?

Question 17:Question 17:

Which animal looks like a stumpy giraffe with

zebra-like stripes on the rear legs, has a 35 cm long tongue that allows it to lick its own eyelids, and can only be found

in the DRC forest?

Question 18:Question 18:

Which is the only country in the world, where all its citizens speak one language?

Question 19:Question 19:

Which African politician made

headlines last year for evading prosecution by jumping bail, dressing in drag and returning

home in a canoe?

Question 20:Question 20:

What do Ghana, Ivory Coast, Togo, Angola and Tunisia have in

common?

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