Portal:Africa/Did you know/1

...that from 1926 to 1940, the Union Minière du Haut Katanga had a virtual monopoly of the world uranium market?
...that Anfillo is an endangered language of Western Ethiopia, spoken only by a few hundred adults above sixty?
...that Bono Manso, the capital of Bono state, was an ancient Akan trading town in present-day Ghana, which was frequented by caravans from Djenné as part of the Trans-Saharan trade?
...that Reverend John Chilembwe is celebrated as the first Malawian nationalist, and was a martyr for his cause?