Sir Charles McCarthy (1769-1824) was a governor of Sierra Leone in the early 19th century and whose period of rule was looked back on as...

Mbandzeni or Dlamini IV (1858-1889) became King of the Swazi in 1874; it was during his reign that much Swazi land was lost to the...

CHARLOTTE MAXEKE Charlotte Maxeke (1874-1939) was one of South African’s first prominent African Women leaders, perhaps best known as the first President of the Bantu Women’s...

ZACHARIAH KEODIRELANG MATTHEWS Zachariah Keodirelang Matthews (Kimberley, South Africa, 1901-Washington, D.C., November 5, 1968) was a scholar, politician, and diplomat. A miner’s son, he was educated...

BA FODAY MANSARAY Ba Foday Manasaray (circa 1750s-1818) was a Limba leader who founded a state in Wara Wara district, based on Bafodea (Bafodaya), a...