Portal:Africa/Did you know/7

• ... that Liberia College in the country of Liberia was authorized by the legislature in 1851, but did not start classes until 1863?
• ... that the forced removal of 700,000 people from slums in Zimbabwe in 2005 was called "a crime against humanity" by the UN?
• ... that the supreme god of the southern African Bushmen is Cagn, a trickster who shapeshifts into a praying mantis?
• ... that Bahá'í Faith in Niger began during a period of wide scale growth in the religion across Sub-Saharan Africa near the end of its colonial period?