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Empress Eléni (147-April 1522), who reigned from 1468-78, was the wife of Emperor Ba’eda Maryam. She played an important role in Ethiopian history when, in...
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Edward Wilmot Blyden (1832-1912), a noted Africanist, was born of free parents on the island of St. Thomas, the Virgin Islands. He was of pure...
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Carl Christian Reindorf (May 31, 1834 – July 1 , 1917), an evangelical pastor, scholar, trader, physician, and historian, who worked with the Basel Mission,...
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Faulkner Thomas J.R. (1870-1942) was born in the state of North Carolina, U.S.A., and migrated to Liberia as a young man. He was educated in...
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Dempster Roland Tombekai (December 9, 1910 – September 24, 1965), author, member of the House of Representatives, eminent scholar, Professor of Latin and World Literature....
Muhammad ibn al-Mustafa and ‘Umar Kunandi ibn ‘Umar, (who both lived in the 18th century), were Dyula scholars from Gonja (Ngbanya), a state located in...
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Johan Hendrik (Henry) de Villiers (June 15, 1842-September 2, 1914), first Baron de Villiers of Wynberg, South Africa, was the first colonial-born chief justice of...
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Louis Faidherbe (b.1818) was the son of a Lille (France) merchant. He attended the Polytechnic School and later the Metz Military School from which he...
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Abba Gorgoryos, also called Gregorius, or Gregory (1600-165?), was a 17th-century historian and philologist, and a friend of Hiob Ludolf, a German specialist in Ethiopian...
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The Rev. Samuel Richard Brew Attoh-Ahuma (December 22, 1863-December 15, 1921) was a nationalist politician, journalist, and author, active at the height of the colonial...
