Artists and Cultural Figures

Komla Afeke Dumor (October 3, 1972 – January 18, 2014) was a distinguished Ghanaian journalist and broadcaster who rose to global prominence as a presenter...

Leon Bukasa (1925-January 16, 1974), one of the notable figures of modern Congolese song, performed and composed during the eventful decades of the 1950s and...

Alimamy Bungie (December 3, 1870-August 20, 1935) was a colorful Krio (Creole) personality who was prominent in Freetown during the earlier decades of the 20th...

Nicholas Julius George Ballanta-Taylor (1893-1962) was a musicologist, organist, and composer. He was born in Freetown and educated at the local Church Missionary Society (C.M.S.)...

John Knox Bokwe (March 15, 1855-February 22, 1922) was a Xhosa missionary, educator, and musician who played a role in the foundation in 1916 of...

Hayes Bennedict Howard (1903-1963) blind Composer, musician and poet, dominated the Liberian cultural scene for several decades. In his early teens, he traveled extensively through...

Barclay Edwin James, 1882-1955, nephew of Arthur Barclay, was the seventeenth president of the Republic of Liberia. His election as President in 1930 was of...

Brown Aaron Sylvester (1907-1956), painter, sculptor, and architect, was born on December 14, 1907, in Harper City, Cape Palmas. He studied at Liberia College, the...

Diop, David (1927-1960) was born of a Senegalese father, Amadou Diop Yande, and a Cameroonian mother, Marie Bell, on July 9, 1927, in Bordeaux. Long...

I.W.W. Citashe (circa 1845-circa 1930) was a Xhosa poet who wrote from around 1875 until the early 1900s. He exhorted Africans to use education, rather...