That gave Okoya food for thought and after some initial research, he decided to launch the Queens of Africa black dolls, each one representing different tribes in the continent.
In Botswana and Zambia, the black Rhino is believed now to be extinct and, across a wide band of Africa, both black and white rhinos are now almost too rare to be counted.
At the confluence of Arab and black Africa, Darfur has known low-level violence for centuries.
Will South Africa's black languages suffer the fate of the six languages brought by the country's first Indian settlers 150 years ago?
In the mid-1960s, he developed a new African dance music influenced by places both in and outside Africa, including black America and the Middle East.
W. de Klerk on handing over power to the elected leader of South Africa's black majority, yet you find no fault in King Hussein's minority rule in Jordan.
Native to Africa, the black rhinoceros is classified as a critically endangered species, according to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora.
The group also said it was fighting to reclaim "the lost dignity of Muslims of black Africa" and the creation of an Islamic caliphate from Niger to Cameroon and northern Nigeria.
After leaving prison in 1990 following more than 27 years in jail, he led the African National Congress party to a landslide victory in 1994 - the first time South Africa's black majority was allowed to vote.
Named after South Africa's first black nurse, under apartheid it used to be the blacks-only hospital.
The 94-year-old, who was South Africa's first black president, was discharged from the hospital on April 6.
The 94-year-old, who was South Africa's first black president, was admitted to the hospital on March 27.
In 1994, South Africa's Ciskei black homeland collapsed when Brigadier Oupa Gqozo resigned after a police revolt.
All this is not for a movie star or entertainer but for South Africa's first black billionaire.
Mr Mandela became South Africa's first black president in the 1990s and is seen by many as father of the nation.
BBC: Nelson Mandela 'in good spirits' say visiting ANC leaders
He served as South Africa's first black president from 1994 to 1999.
It's clear that the pressures of being the South Africa's first black female winemaker have been replaced by an obsession with her craft.
He served as South Africa's first black president from 1994 to 1999 and is regarded by many as the father of the nation.
Mr Mandela served as South Africa's first black president from 1994 to 1999 and is regarded by many as the father of the nation.
After initial defiance, Luyt acceded and stepped down, to be replaced in September by Silas Nkanunu, South Africa's first black rugby president.
De Villiers became South Africa's first black coach when he took over the reins from Jake White almost three months after their 2007 World Cup triumph.
Mr Mandela served as South Africa's first black president from 1994 to 1999 and is regarded by many as the father of the nation for leading the struggle against apartheid.
BBC: Nelson Mandela breathing without difficulty - presidency
Mr Mandela served as South Africa's first black president from 1994 to 1999 and is widely regarded as the father of the nation for leading the struggle against apartheid and for democracy.
In a way, it is uplifting to see South Africa's new black millionaires flashing their Rolex watches and being grovelled to by managers of the very restaurants that used to exclude them.
Mr. Mandela, elected South Africa's first black president in 1994 as a member of the African National Congress, served as president for one term after spending more than a quarter of a century behind bars for his efforts to end apartheid.
Those that didn't go to Africa ended up on the black market in Chicago.
There was widespread speculation before the conclave that the Roman Catholic Church was about to elect its first black pope from Africa.
And this is even more important and has a greater significance when we remember that the U.S. and Brazil are the two countries that has the largest black population outside Africa.
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