Portal:Africa/Did you know/2

...that the 1459 Fra Mauro map (pictured) reports that "a junk from India" rounded the Cape of Good Hope in 1420, around 70 years before the navigations of Vasco da Gama?
...that the 1998 Sudan famine was caused by human rights abuses in the midst of the Second Sudanese Civil War?
...that a smokie is a West African delicacy made by blowtorching the carcass of a sheep or goat without removing its fleece?
...that Anne-Marie Nzié, a Cameroonian bikutsi singer, dedicated the song Liberté to President Paul Biya and his party, the Cameroon People's Democratic Movement?