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Heroes and Heroines

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Solomon Tshekisho Plaatje (circa 1876-June 19, 1932) was a distinguished South African writer and nationalist. He served as the first secretary general of the African...

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Rev. Mangena Maake Mokone (1851-1936), opposed racial discrimination and segregation in the churches, sought African religious self-government, and founded the Ethiopian Church in 1892. Mokone...

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Mohlomi (died circa 1816), son of Monyane and chief of the Monaheng, is a central figure in the oral tradition of the present-day Lesotho, and...

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Robert Moffatt (Ormiston, East Lothian, Scotland, December 21, 1795-Leigh, Kent, England, August 8, 1883) was a missionary and a linguist, who worked in Botswana for...

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Mlanjeni (literally “River Man”) (circa 1830-August 28, 1853) was a Ciskei prophet of the Rarabe Xhosa. He played a key role in the frontier war...

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Vuyusile Mini (1920-1964) achieved prominence as a trade union organiser and political activist in African nationalist causes. Born in Port Elizabeth, he acquired very little...

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Alfred Milner [subsequently First Viscount] (March 23, 1854-May 13, 1925), was one of the leading British colonial statesmen and administrators and architect of a unified...

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The Koks were a leading Griqua family, of mixed European and Khoisan descent, who flourished, especially near the confluence of the Orange and Vaal Rivers,...

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Sarah Gertrude Millin (March 1889-July 6, 1968) left Lithuania for South Africa at the age of five months during a time of Jewish emigration as...

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George Nazar Khambule (1884-January 9, 1949) a Zulu Messiah founded a unique religious community whose ethos and structure differed from that of any other independent...

Editor’s Note

This website features a collection of articles largely from previously published volumes of the Encyclopaedia Africana, specifically the Encyclopaedia Africana Dictionary of African Biography, which highlights notable individuals from various regions of Africa. Please note that in these volumes, some names of people, towns, and countries were spelled differently than they are today. We have retained these historical spellings to preserve the integrity of the original publications. In some instances, the current spellings are also provided for easy reference.
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