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Rooibos, (pronounced /ˈrɔɪbɒs/, like “roy-boss”), Afrikaans for “red bush”; scientific name Aspalathus linearis) is a broom-like member of the legume family of plants and is used to make a tisane (herbal tea). Commonly called South African red tea or simply red tea or bush tea, the product has been popular in South Africa for generations [...]

Idrissa Ouedraogo (born 21 January 1954 in Banfora, Upper Volta, now Burkina Faso) is a film director from Burkina Faso. He is best known for his films Yaaba and Tilaï.

Idrissa Ouedraogo is a graduate of the African Institute for Cinema Studies (Institut Africain d’Etudes Cinématographiques) in Ouagadougou. In 1981 he began to work for the [...]

Akinwande Oluwole “Wole” Soyinka (born 13 July 1934) is a Nigerian writer, poet and playwright. Some consider him Africa’s most distinguished playwright, as he won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1986, the first African so honored.

Soyinka was born into a Yoruba family, specifically, an Egba family in Abeokuta in 1934. He received a primary [...]

Chinua Achebe (pronounced /ˈtʃɪnwɑː ɑːˈtʃeɪbeɪ/[1]), born Albert Chinualumogu Achebe on November 16, 1930, is a Nigerian[2] novelist, poet and critic. He is best known for his first novel, Things Fall Apart (1958), which is the most widely-read book in modern African literature.
Raised by Christian parents in the Igbo village of Ogidi in south Nigeria, Achebe [...]

The University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg (pronounced vit-vaters-rant) is a leading South African university situated in Johannesburg. It is better known as Wits University (pronounced vits).
Due to the 1959 Extension of University Education Act the school was only allowed to register a small number of black students for most of the apartheid era, even though [...]