Without Googling it, can you name 5 famous black Africans, besides Mandela?

[KostasKouvalis]

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They have to be from Africa

[4ngelic]

lupita n'goyo

kadafi? (I don't know if he's counts. i think he's libyan or something mixed with black African)

usain bolt

khaby lame

maureen

[KostasKouvalis]

Are you talking about the dictator Ghadafi? He wasn't black. Usain Bolt is Jamaican. And the first girl was born in Mexico. I'll give you Khaby Lame. Only Maureen I found is a White Irish lady

[Siri137]

Bishop Desmond Tutu, Idi Amin, Anwar Sadat, Haile Selassie I, Thomas Sankara. There, five. Easy. :)

[OtterMan68]

geographically Egyptians are Africans, but if you ask most Egyptians if they're African, they'll say no

[KostasKouvalis]

@OtterMan68 Anwar Sadat was technically black, so I'll expect it.

Of course they will, why am I not surprised? But likewise, most black Africans don't consider anymore who isn't black as "true Africans"
North Africans have a bit of an identity crisis, because Arabs don't consider them Arabs and black Africans don't consider them Africans.
Africa has a severe black nationalist problem

[Kaneki05]

How on earth would I know? That's like asking can you name 5 famous white Germans wouldn't know if they are or not.

[KostasKouvalis]

No, that's fine. This was actually very helpful data

[Kaneki05]

Glad it was then :)

[RebelinSteel]

Roger Milla, Kofi Annan, Shaka Zulu, Haile Selassie, Desmond Tutu

thats my stab of Africans

[RebelinSteel]

Ref update, I though that was obvious from the question, or I know a few from France, UK, etc

[KostasKouvalis]

I did too, but apparently not

[RebelinSteel]

Maybe include a picture of the country next time, some nationalities struggle with Geography

[KostasKouvalis]

I thought about it. But I thought the question was straight-forward but apparently not

[avery58]

I know Akon and Lupita Nyong'o. Does The Weeknd count? He's pretty close to his Ethiopian roots

[KostasKouvalis]

Never heard of the first two. Isn't The Weekend American? They have to be from Africa.

[avery58]

He's from Canada. The other two were raised fully or partly in Africa

[HighValue]

Do they have to be from Africa, or just Black people such as famous Black Americans too?

[KostasKouvalis]

They have to be from Africa, that's the point. They can be immigrants, but they have to have been born in Africa.

[HighValue]

The only one I know is Kofi Kingston from WWE.

[KostasKouvalis]

That counts

[OtterMan68]

Mansa Musa

Hailie Saliese

Shaka

Stephen Biko

Idi Amin

[TheSpectre]

Obama. Beyonce. Nelly. Snoop Dogg. Nicki Minaj.

[KostasKouvalis]

🤣🤣🤣🤣 Not what I meant, but you're getting a thumbs up for that. I'll give you Obama though

[TheSpectre]

Thanks🤣😅