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The Black Sash was founded on 19 May 1955 by six middle-class white women, Jean Sinclair, Ruth Foley, Elizabeth McLaren, Tertia Pybus, Jean Bosazza and Helen Newton-Thompson. [1] The organisation was founded as the Women’s Defence of the Constitution League but was eventually shortened by the press as the Black Sash due to the women's habit ...
Olfert Dapper, a Dutch writer, describing Benin in his book Description of Africa (1668) The Kingdom of Benin, which occupied southern parts of present-day Nigeria between the fourteenth and nineteenth centuries, was rich in sculptures of diverse materials, such as iron, bronze, wood, ivory and terra cotta. The Oba's palace in Benin City, the site of production for the royal ancestral altars ...
Tafawa Balewa Tomb. Uli Beier Museum. National Museum of Colonial History, Aba. War Museum, Umuahia. Niger-Delta Museum. National Museum of Unity, Enugu. CRIMMD Museum Nigerian Photo History, Idimu, Lagos. National Museum of Unity, Ibadan. *Yemisi Shyllon Museum of Art,Pan-Atlantic University, Lagos.
The archaeology of Igbo-Ukwu is the study of an archaeological site located in a town of the same name: Igbo-Ukwu, an Igbo town in Anambra State in southeastern Nigeria. As a result of these findings, three excavation areas at Igbo-Ukwu were opened in 1959 and 1964 by Charles Thurstan Shaw: Igbo Richard, Igbo Isaiah, and Igbo Jonah.
The history of space in Africa is the history of space activity by or sent from Africa . Africa has had since 1947 launch sites, with the first independent space programs having been set up early into the Space Age, and African countries participating within the United Nations in developing international space law.
National Museum of Science and Technology (Sweden), in Stockholm, Sweden. Ingenium, official name National Museum of Science and Technology, a Canadian crown corporation that operates several museums, including: Canada Science and Technology Museum, formerly the National Museum of Science and Technology.
A national museum can be a museum maintained and funded by a national government. In many countries it denotes a museum run by the central government , while other museums are run by regional or local governments. [2]
Zolile Hector Pieterson (19 August 1963 – 16 June 1976) was a South African schoolboy who was shot and killed at the age of 12 during the Soweto uprising in 1976, when the police opened fire on black students protesting the enforcement of teaching in Afrikaans, mostly spoken by the white and coloured population in South Africa, as the medium of instruction for all school subjects.