Featured Heroes and Heroines

Thomas Hutton-Mills (June 1865-March 14, 1931), the first president of the National Congress of British West Africa, was a noted politician, statesman, educationist, and lawyer,...

Thomas Francois Burgers (April 15, 1834-1881), a liberal and strongly reformist minister of the Dutch Reformed Church (Nederduitse Ge-reformeerde Kerk, or N.G.K.), was president of...

Sidney Percival Bunting (1873-1936) was one of the founders of the Communist Party of South Africa and a leader in labour struggles in the early...

Johannes Henricus Brand (December 6, 1823-July 14, 1888) was third president of the Orange Free State, and his name became synonymous with that government for...

Louis Botha (September 27, 1862-August 27, 1919) was a South African statesman and soldier. He was the first prime minister of the Union of South...

Johann Gottlieb Christaller (November 19, 1827-December 16, 1895) was a German missionary and philologist with the Basel Mission who made Twi the most important African...

Cornelius Frederick Adjetey (1893-February 28, 1948), the first martyr to the cause of national independence, was killed when colonial police opened fire on demonstrators, setting...

Ruth First (May 4, 1925-August 17, 1982), writer, academic and revolutionary, was a creative force and influence at the heart of South Africa’s liberation struggle....

Abba Gabra Mikael (1791-August 28, 1855), a 19th-century Ethiopian ecclesiastic and scholar, became a convert to Catholicism and was put to death for his faith...

Taytu Betul (circa 1853-February 11, 1918), empress of Ethiopia, was the wife of Menilek II [reigned 1889-1913]. It was she who gave the name “Addis Ababa”...