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Did you know list

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Archbishop Desmond Tutu and

Thabo Mbeki, former President of South Africa.

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...that in London's Africa Centre, Desmond Tutu and Thabo Mbeki used to meet at the bar?

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...that on arriving in Cuba in 1920, the SS Yarmouth (crew pictured), flagship of Marcus Garvey's Black Star Line, was hailed as the "Ark of the Covenant of the colored people"?

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A. F. James MacArthur

...that A. F. James MacArthur (pictured) broadcast his standoff with the Baltimore Police Department to 10,000 online listeners?

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Flag of Benin.

...that the colours of the Flag of Benin (pictured) allude to the Pan-Africanist movement and pay tribute to Ethiopia, the oldest independent country in Africa?

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...that Henry V. Plummer was a chaplain with the US Army Buffalo Soldiers, while his son H. Vinton Plummer was a leader in Marcus Garvey's secret service and militia?

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Congolese leader Patrice Lumumba in Brussels.

...that during the tumultuous Year of Africa, seventeen countries gained independence, South Africans began armed resistance to apartheid, and Patrice Lumumba (pictured) gained and lost his freedom?