Sentence examples for african hero from inspiring English sources
The theme is apt: what better quest for an African hero than to fight corruption?
Mr. Barron is unfazed by such inconvenient details. "He's an African hero," the councilman said on Sunday.
"Sundiata," recommended for children 6 and older, is the story of the fabled African hero, born with the head of a lion.
On a recent trip to Côte d'Ivoire, where a civil war is ready to re-ignite, a banner draped from a hotel cheerfully declared "Welcome to Thabo Mbeki, a genuine African hero".
In fact, the Disney-owned studio is ploughing ahead with big-screen debuts for some of the most far-out comic book creations in history, namely Benedict Cumberbatch's Doctor Strange and the African hero Black Panther.
There was one thing he noticed about the games he played, however: "There weren't a lot that depicted African heroes".
But in September a group of professors started a petition calling for the removal of the statue, saying Gandhi was racist and that the university should put African heroes and heroines "first and foremost".
They argue that Gandhi made comments that were racist about Africans and that statues on the Accra campus should be of African heroes.
Finally, do you think our generation will produce people that will rise up to fill the shoes of Wangari Maathai, your grand dad (Madiba), Wole Soyinka, and all these other great African heroes?
The play, translated from the French of Aimé Césaire, concerns the last months of the life of Patrice Lumumba, the pan-African hero who helped to liberate the Congo from Belgian rule in 1960, became its first democratically elected leader and who, after 12 short weeks in power was deposed, tortured and killed by his enemies including the CIA and, by some accounts, the British secret services.
