Heroes and Heroines

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Don Davidson Tengo Jabavu (October 20, 1885-August 3. 1959) was the first African to be appointed to a university level education institution in South Africa....

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Nyagua (circa 1842-1906) was a warrior chief of great consequence in eastern Mende country, and ruler of Panguma, one of the largest states in the...

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Njiakundohun (late 18th century-?1860s) was the leader of the first band of invading Mende warriors who moved westwards across Sierra Leone in the mid-19th century....

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John Frederick Nemgbana, or Naimbana (circa 1768-June 1793), the son of Nemgbana, regent of the Koya Temne, had an untimely death. Educated in England, where...

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Nemgbana (circa 1775-February 11, 1793) or Naim-bana, was regent of the Koya Temne in Sierra Leone. By signing a treaty with British settlers he alienated...

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Mansa Kama, who lived from about the mid-16th to the 17th century, was a great warrior and one of the earliest Koranko migrants from the...

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Kabba Sei (circa 1840-1908) was a Mende war chief of Mando, in Upper Moa, in eastern Sierra Leone, during the late 19th century, who became...

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John Tengo Jabavu (January 11, 1859-Sep-tember 10, 1921), an Xhosa educationist, was the long time editor of Imvo Zabantsundu, the leading African newspaper cf his...

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Samuel Josiah Sigismund Barlatt (1867-September 7 or 8, 1940) was Mayor of Freetown from 1918-20, during which time he played a moderating role during various...

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Herbert Christian Bankole-Bright (August 23, 1883-December 12, 1958), whose political career spanned four decades, from the 1920s to the 1950s, was one of the most...

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