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Jean-Félix Tchicaya (1903–1961) was a Congolese politician and the first from Congo-Brazzaville elected to the French National Assembly in 1945. Founder of the first political...
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Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela (July 18, 1918 – December 5, 2013) was a South African anti-apartheid activist, freedom fighter, unifier, political strategist, Black nationalist, lawyer, and...
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Jomo Kenyatta (c. 1895 – August 22, 1978) led Kenya to independence in 1963 and became the country’s first Prime Minister from 1963 to 1964...
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Barend Barends (circa 1770-1839) was a Griqua bandit leader who, with his brother Nicholaas, led the Barends clan, one of the two component clans of...
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Lieutenant John Clarkson (1763-1828) brought more than 1,100 North American freedmen from Nova Scotia to Sierra Leone, and became first governor of the Sierra Leone...
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Saul Msane (circa 1856-circa 1932), a prominent member of the Wesleyan Methodist Church and a newspaper editor, was one of the founding members of the...
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Frederic Cardew (1839-July 6, 1921) was governor of Sierra Leone from 1894-1900. During his energetic governorship, a Protectorate was declared over the British sphere of...
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Lilian Masediba Ngoyi (1911-March 12, 1980) was president of the Federation of South African Women and, in 1956, the first woman to be elected to...
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Henry Masila Ndawo (1883-1949), a school teacher, novelist, poet, preserver of oral literature, political activist and writer, was born among the amaHlubi at Bethesda near...
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Thomas Levi Mvabaza was born in Peddie, near Grahamstown, Cape Province (d. 1955). He was educated at both St. Matthew’s College, Middledrift, and Zonnebloem, Cape...
