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East African Federation is a planned union by countries of East African community - Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda, South Sudan, Tanzania and Uganda into a federal union and a single country. The federation will allow a free flow of it's citizens to every corner of the country and a single currency will unite them.

Around September 2018, a constitutional drafting committee was established for a constitution for the region.
The capital of the federation will not be in any of the country's capitals but will be in "Arusha", situated in Tanzania and the official language will be English while Swahili will be their lingual franca.
The East African Federation has a land mass of about 2,467,202 square kilometers (952,592 sq mi), it will be the largest country in the African Continent and 10th largest in the world. And with it's 178,978,883 population as at 2018, would be the................

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The government of Equatorial Guinea plan on erecting a wall along the 183km-long border with Cameroon.

The Cameroonian authorities has not been pleased with the information over concerns about encroachment into her territories by the Equato- Guineans officials who have already erected milestones to demarcate the line along which the border wall will be constructed.

It is believed that the Trump's wall.......


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Lake Victoria is the largest lake in Africa, it is a huge lake that is located in Eastern Africa along the equator and boarders countries like Uganda, Kenya and Tanzania.

It has an area of 26,828 square mile (69,484 squ km). It has the greatest length from north to south as 210 miles (337km), its coastline exceeds 2,000 miles (3,220km).

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The first Italo- Ethiopian war was fought between Italy and Ethiopia from 1894 - 1896, after the scramble and partition of Africa in the Berlin Conference of 1884/1885, Ethiopia remained independent and the Italian saw it as an opportunity to acquire more possession in the Horn of Africa by conquering Ethiopia. Italy had focused on the Red Sea areas around East Africa and have troops in the port city of Massawa in Eritrea which was then part of the Ethiopian Empire.

The Italian government failed to evaluate closely the situation of Ethiopia due to the crisis they had with who would succeed the throne as the next emperor which caused disunity among Ethiopian noblemen.
On March 25 1889, the Shewa ruler Menelik II having acquired Tigray and Amhara declared himself the Emperor of Ethiopia with little support of Italian government so on May 2, he signed a treaty( Treaty of Wuchale) as part of their influence in his ascension which gave the Italian the administrative control of.............................


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panafrican:
Saw a video on YouTube five or six years ago where British settlers were celebrating around a captured Kenyan tribal warrior.
They were taking his pictures.It was so upsetting, Couldn't continue to watch.

Africans have been through much subjugation and maltreatment from colonial powers, If they are to atone for their sins by paying Africans for their atrocities they make not be any money left in their country.

The underdevelopment of Africa developed Europe.

The Mau Mau uprising also called Kenya emergency, it was a resistance against the British colonial in Kenya which is believes to have started in 1952 to 1960. White colonialist maltreatment of the blacks by expulsion of Kikuyu tenants from their farmlands, hardship, corruption, poverty, improper and unequal representation of Kenyans interest gave the people a reason to revolt.
The uprising involved the prominent ethnic group in Kenya, the Kikuyu tribe among other are very vibrant in fighting against the colonialist, they joined the KAU (Kenya African Union) and quickly dominated the politics of the KAU, they replaced the moderate constitutional agenda with a militant one. The nationalist KAU which was also called Muhimu began giving Kikuyu oathing, most through intimidation and forceful threats................

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A law was enacted on South Africa that forced all black schools in the country to adopt the use of Afrikaans (language of the Boers) and English in a 50-50 mix for instructions, the Afrikaans Medium Decree of 1974". Afrikaans had to be used for mathematics, social studies and arithmetic from standard five while English would be used for general science and practical subject but indigenous languages could only be used for religious instructions, music and physical culture.

Demonstration
On 16 June 1976, an estimate of about 20,000 black students from different high schools all over the country march round in critism of the Decree after it implementation on January 1, 1976 and the idea of learning through Afrikaans in school, the first stage of the protest started in Orlando Stadium which the students from different schools gathered for the rally both those that were aware of it before that day and those that got the information on the spot but still follow with the movement.
When the march started, the students sang and displayed placard showing slogans like "Down with .............

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The horn of Africa is located in the Northeast of African continent and it is a peninsula. It extends into the Arabian Sea and along the South of the Gulf of Aden. The countries that make up the Horn of Africa are Ethiopia, Eritrea, Somalia and Djibouti.

Bio data of Countries in the Horn of Africa

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Next in the Anti- expansionist resistance by Africa is the Samori Toure’s Mandinka resistance against the French.

Samori Toure defended his Mandinka Empire sometimes referred to as Wassoulou Empire from the French occupation and expansion in Africa from 1883- 1898 before its collapses and annexation into the French empire.
The French faced one of the stiffest resistance in the history of Europeans colonization, Samori had succeeded in establishing an empire around the upper basin of the River Niger by the year 1882, the capital was at Bissandugu, the French were not happy about the development and looked with envy at this rising empire and sought to conquer it into their colonial empire. After much persuasion by the French for Samori to surrender his sovereignty and independence to the French had failed, the French declared war on the empire in 1883.

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On 31 of July 1905, Matumbi tribesmen marched on Samanga and destroyed the cotton crop as well as trading post. The Maji Maji uprising in German East Africa was one of the most significant African challenges faced by the German colonial aspiration and leadership. The resistance lasted for two years and the casualties were estimated around 250000-300000 total death and injured, mostly civilian from famine, cross fire and hunger etc.

Tanganyika (modern day Tanzania) was acquired by the German during the scramble for Africa and the Berlin Conference of 1884/1885, but the Germans established control over Tanganyika on 1898,and imposed a violent regime in other to control the population.
The brutal and oppressive administration imposed by the Germans made the people angry and it became unbearable when drought hit a region in Tanganyika, a prophet, Kinjikitile Ngwale claimed to be possessed by a ...............

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Before 1879, most of the interior and hinterland of the African continent was made up of states and kingdoms that enjoyed self government, sovereignty and limited independence from influence of the colonial might and their imperialist ambitions.

Apart from a few territories, the coastal areas like cape colony, Algeria, Senegal, Luanda , the Canary Islands and parts of the Gold Coast, which were directly or indirectly under European control, Africa's hinterland was free of colonial influence. European nations with lands and possessions along the African costal cities by 1879, including Portugal, British Empire, France and Spain. Powerful kingdoms in Africa at that time included the Fulani Empire Buganda, the Zulu kingdom, the Congo Kingdom, Asante and Zanzibar. These states of Africa had well organized political systems, sound societies and flourishing economics. The Europeans that traded with Africans did so with respect and at equal basis.

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The popular Gettysburg Address was a speech that the United State's President Abraham Lincoln delivered at a ceremony of the Soldier's National Cemetery in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania on Thursday November 19, 1863 in honour of the fallen heroes at the victorious Battle of Gettysburg against the Confederacy.

Read the address from the link below!!!

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Many people may have thought that French Constitution was the first modern constitution in Europe but surprising to them it's their Eastern Europe neighbor Poland-Lithuanian Commonwealth who had theirs four months earlier than the French even if their revolution date back to 1789 but the first French Constitution came a little too late on September 1791.
Polish Parliament adopted their constitution on the 3rd of May 1791,making them the first in Europe and second in the world only to the ..........................

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In the year 1904, Chris Watson led the first Labour Party government as the Prime Minister of Australia.
Australia practice a parliamentary system of government whereby the head of state(Governor General) is different from the head of government who forms the government from the ....................



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For Aborigines, they got there through migration over land bridges several thousands of years past. At least that’s the general hypothesis. So they found it by walking till there wasn’t ground any longer, the land bridges disappeared, then they would settle there and start inhabiting, and they did this for 40,000 years prior to white man.

For Europeans, basically by accident.
It was generally believed that long before land was actually sighted, that there might be some sort of continental mass well south of Asia.
There was no specific mission set aside, as had been the case with North America. The first European to sight the Australian continent was Netherlander Willem Janszoon in 1606, along the coast of Cape York Peninsula. The Dutch mapped the northern outline, referring to the continent as “New Holland,” but did not settle there. Dirk Hartog, another Dutchman, made landfall in 1616 in Western Australia (on an island now named after him) but found little of value, and continued on to Batavia (Jakarta), Indonesia.

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Officialgarri:
This bridge was commissioned by the then Prime Minister late Alhaji Tafawa Balewa and opened for traffic in December 1965... barely 15 days after, The same Balewa was assassinated by the people he commissioned the bridge for.

Two years later, the same people destroyed what was built for them.

Now what's your point?, Did they just wake up one morning and destroy the bridge or assassinate Balewa.

At this time of your life you shouldn't joke with every thing which I believe is what you intended on doing because that War is beyond what you imagine.

True be told, Igbos would have been better off if they had won the war, Argue with your ancestors.

panafrican:
Best way to go : India ,China and Pakistan all out of that region and let it become an independent sovereign country.

Exactly, that's the best thing. They have never asked the people what they want.

After the partition of the Indian Empire on 1947, Pakistan and India has both claim to be the legal owners of Northern of Jammu and Kashmir which refused to join either of the two countries and remain neutral during the partition crisis of 1947.

After pressure from both side the maharajah of Kashmir, Hari Signh signed an agreement with both parties, which they both agreed not to occupy or invade the region for two months so they can decide what next step to take. But it all changed when on October 1947 the maharajah of Kashmir confiscated weapons from the muslims and sent it to the British Army and it was later redistributed to the Hindu Village defence forces which provoked an uprising by the Muslims in Kashmir and it's neighboring Pashtun tribesman from Pakistan came in to assist as it was claimed.

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chloride6:
Lol, I know where Guyana is.
I'm saying the similar drive is going on in eastern Africa...

OK

chloride6:
They are not selling ALL their assets...

How does the Nigerian Economy affect their situation...

Poor Journalism...

New fields in Eastern Africa as well as the American are currently very profitable because of various incentives offered.

We already have a developed oil industry so we wont offer those incentives..

Exxon are still developing assets in Nigeria as well speak...

Same with Shell, Total and AGIP...

Besides no sale can take place without the approval the FG...

So chill and dont wail....

Modified

Called my friend in Eket now

Said it's just the discussion are on the onshore fields..

The offshore fields are not for Sale..

Exxon is currently hiring fresh graduates.

They wouldn't be doing so if there was no long term plan.

Point of correction , it's supposed to be North America and South America ,Guyana is in South America not Eastern Africa. Thanks.

It is a throwback Thursday Na, lol.

Shelumiel:
The chap above me just read my mind

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morpheus24:
Bros you are late on this one, na now you dey read scramble for Africa

Funny enough

As a result of the heightened tension between European states in the last quarter of the 19th century, the partitioning of Africa may be seen as a way for the Europeans to eliminate the threat of a Europe-wide war over Africa. The last 59 years of the 19th century saw transition from ‘informal imperialism’ of control through military influence and economic dominance to that of direct rule. To avoid a war in the struggle to acquire lands in Africa.

I will give in details below how Africa was shared among the Europeans and who got what :

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Mysterious Stone Statues - Far out in the pacific, along the slopes of Easter Island, stands a strange sight. Giant stone heads peer out across the landscape. Hundreds more lie knocked down all across the
island. The Island's early inhabitants carved these statues which weigh up to 90 tons, out of the side of a volcano. How they moved the statues many miles to their present locations, however, is a mystery that may never be solved. In 1995, UNESCO named Easter Island as a World Heritage Site, with much of the island protected by Rapa Nui National Park.

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Fixedodds3:
Read below it

Which kind comment be this na

North Sentinel Island is one of the many island in the Andaman Islands located in the Bay of Bengal. The Sentinelese as they are called are known to be among the first group of Africans to have left African continent 60,000 years ago.

They have never come in contact with Europeans and have not been colonized in any form. Life in the island was first noticed in 1771 when British Surveyor John Richie noticed a light on the islands while doing his work with the East Indian Company but didn't stop to attack or inquire,and the island was not talked about until 1867 when the Indian merchant ship called The NINEVAH wretched on its shores and the more than 100 passengers who survived were attacked few days later by the Sentinelese. The captain manage to escape with a boat to search for help and later returned to rescue others who managed to survive.

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Barely six months after the Congo Independence of 1960, the country witnessed a political crisis that saw external interference by the former colonial master and the Americans in the assassination of the Prime Minister of the independent sovereign country of Congo in 1961.

Below are few reasons from many reasons why the Belgians and American may have assassinated the Prime Minister of Congo, Patrice Lumumba :

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