Mar 05 2009
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Daily Factoid- fricafact: In 1860 American slaves, as a financial asset, were worth approximately three and a half billion dollars. http://ow.ly/K9OS
- fricafact: Nov. 30 1965, Kip Keino became the first Kenyan to hold a world record in athletics, in Auckland, New Zealand: 13m24.2s in the 5000m.
- fricafact: In 1986 Professor Wole Soyinka became the first African to be awarded the Nobel Prize for literature.
- fricafact: Professor Christiaan Barnard performed the first human heart transplant in the world, on Dec 3, 1967, at Groote Schuur Hospital, Cape Town.
- fricafact: Afrobeat is a style popularized by Fela Kuti in the 1970s, combining Yoruba music, jazz, Highlife, and funk rhythms.
- fricafact: Milo-jazz is a Sierra Leonean style named for Milo chocolate powder, Empty cans were filled with stones to form a percussion instrument.
- fricafact: The oldest university in West Africa is Fourah Bay College, founded in Sierra Leone in 1827.
- fricafact: Swaziland is the last remaining monarchy in sub-Saharan Africa.
- fricafact: The Sahara is the world’s largest non-polar desert and spans 3.5 million square milesl
- fricafact: RT @sbramley *Uganda* Interesting article about doing business in Uganda. http://www.newvision.co.ug/D/8/220/694449
