Need help on a homework project

[skylerracer23 71]

heres the quote pertaining to the project:

"Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome" -Booker T Washington

 

the task pertaining to the quote: Describe a person of African decent who most describes this person.

 

this is what I am asking: Can someone provide some names on people to write about.

 

My reason for this post: After brainstorming for 30 mins, i came up with nothing. can someone help me please.

 

[Bdub01 201]

What about Nelson Mandela?

[A Nonny Moose 8,261]

What about Nelson Mandela?

First person who came to mind for me too.  He has just been released from hospital.  He is suffering from the effects of TB he got while in prison.

 

There is lots and lots of material.  So get busy, my lad.

[libellibicus 396]

If I was you, I would try to think about someone other than Nelson Mandela. Everybody else in class will do him. Impress the tutor by finding some other African who would fit the bill.

[Bdub01 201]

If I was you, I would try to think about someone other than Nelson Mandela. Everybody else in class will do him. Impress the tutor by finding some other African who would fit the bill.

Libellibicus has a point there. You REALLY want to impress your teacher/instructor go with Dido the Queen of Carthage. She had plenty of hardships to get to be queen. Of course you can skip the last part of her life when she killed herself cause Aeneas dumped her!

[ROFLyoshi 1,760]

Why must iy be of African descent?

[A Nonny Moose 8,261]

Then there is Jomo Kenyatta, former president of Kenya, who as also a leader of the Mau Mau.  That may turn out to have more colour than your teacher likes.

[akbear 3]

I would imagine several could be found on this list http://history1900s.about.com/od/people/tp/famousafricanamericans.htm

 

or this one http://www.factmonster.com/spot/afroambios.html

[skylerracer23 71]

If I was you, I would try to think about someone other than Nelson Mandela. Everybody else in class will do him. Impress the tutor by finding some other African who would fit the bill.

 

Your right because 20% of my class is doing Nelson Mandela.

 

Why must iy be of African descent?

 

Because that is what the task is asking for.

 

Then there is Jomo Kenyatta, former president of Kenya, who as also a leader of the Mau Mau.  That may turn out to have more colour than your teacher likes.

 

that sounds interesting there. I think that may be the person I will write about.

 

I would imagine several could be found on this list http://history1900s.about.com/od/people/tp/famousafricanamericans.htm

 

or this one http://www.factmonster.com/spot/afroambios.html

 

great suggestion there but as I looked through the links, 80% of the class were writing about those people.