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Landmarks in Africa, Travel Around The Vast Continent Africa
Landmarks in Africa, Travel Around The Vast Continent Africa
According to most travelers who have traveled the Earth, sharing of our
site thatlandmarks in Africa are the most unique. Djemila is a unique
archaeological site located in North Africa. Here are 10 most
visited landmarks in Africa that are worth seeing.
Djemila is 50 km. city of Setif.
Nelson Mandela, in full Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela, byname Madiba (born July 18,
1918, Mvezo, South Africadied December 5, 2013, Johannesburg), black
nationalist and the first black president of South Africa (199499). His negotiations
in the early 1990s with South African Pres. F.W. de Klerk helped end the
countrysapartheid system of racial segregation and ushered in a peaceful transition
to majority rule. Mandela and de Klerk were jointly awarded the Nobel Prize for
Peace in 1993 for their efforts
Desmond Mpilo Tutu CH (born 7 October 1931) is a South African social rights
activist and retired Anglican bishop who rose to worldwide fame during the 1980s as
an opponent of apartheid.
He was the first black Archbishop of Cape Town and bishop of the Church of the
Province of Southern Africa (now the Anglican Church of Southern Africa).
Since the demise of apartheid in South Africa, Tutu has campaigned to
fight HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, poverty, racism, sexism,homophobia, and transphobia.
He received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1984; the Albert Schweitzer Prize for
Humanitarianism in 1986; the Pacem in Terris Award in 1987; the Sydney Peace
Prize in 1999; the Gandhi Peace Prize in 2007;[1] and the Presidential Medal of
Freedom in 2009. He has also compiled several books of his speeches and sayings.
Shaka kaSenzangakhona (c. 1787 22 September 1828), also known
as Shaka[a] Zulu (Zulu pronunciation: [aa]), was one of the most
influential monarchs of the Zulu Kingdom.
He was born near present-day Melmoth, KwaZulu-Natal Province. According to
tradition, Shaka was conceived during an act of what began as ukuhlobonga, a form of
sexual foreplay without penetration allowed to unmarried couples, also known as "the
fun of the roads" (ama hlay endlela), during which the lovers became "carried away
Kofi Atta Annan (born 8 April 1938) is a Ghanaian diplomat who served as
the seventh Secretary-General of the United Nationsfrom January 1997 to
December 2006. Annan and the UN were the co-recipients of the 2001 Nobel
Peace Prize.[2] He is the founder and chairman of the Kofi Annan Foundation,
as well as chairman of The Elders, an international organization founded
by Nelson Mandela.