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The Semitic languages are a branch of the Afroasiatic language family. They include Arabic, Amharic, Aramaic, Hebrew, and numerous other ancient and modern...

The Xhosa people, or Xhosa-speaking people (/ˈkɔːsə/ KAW-sə, /ˈkoʊsə/ KOH-sə; Xhosa pronunciation: [kǁʰɔ́ːsa] ) are a Bantu ethnic group native to South...

Félix Houphouët-Boigny (French: [feliks ufwɛ(t) bwaɲi]; 18 October 1905 – 7 December 1993), affectionately called Papa Houphouët or Le Vieux ("The Old...

The History of Equatorial Guinea is marked by centuries of colonial domination by the Portuguese, British and Spanish colonial empires, and by the local...

The Rahbani brothers (Arabic: الأخوان رحباني), Assi Rahbani (4 May 1923 – 21 June 1986) and Mansour Rahbani (1925 – 13 January 2009) were Lebanese sibling...

The Joint Operations Command (JOC) is the supreme organ for the coordination of state security in Zimbabwe. It was established by the Rhodesian Security...

Matumona Lundala known most simply as Goliath (born August 1, 1972, in Esperança) is an Angolan goalkeeper who won the 2005 Angolan Cup with Sagrada Esperança...

Benjamin Adesanya Maja Adekunle (26 June 1936 – 13 September 2014) was a Nigerian Army Brigadier and Civil War commander. Adekunle was born in Kaduna....

Cairo Metro Line 2 is the second line of the Cairo Metro in Cairo, Egypt. Cairo's metro network was greatly expanded in the mid-1990s with the building...

Gamal Hamdan (Egyptian Arabic: جمال حمدان)[English translation: Jamāl Ḥamdān](February 2, 1928 – April 17, 1993) was an Egyptian scholar and geographer...

Monday Owens Wiwa (born 10 October 1957 in Bori, Nigeria) is a medical doctor and human rights activist. He is the brother of executed Ogoni leader Ken...

Ecoair International was an airline based in Algiers, Algeria, founded in 1999. In 2002 it was integrated into Khalifa Group, the parent company of Khalifa...