Foday Tarawaly (circa 1780s-1880s), chief of Gbile (Billeh), a town on the Great Scarcies River, opposite Kambia, in northern Sierra Leone, was an Islamic scholar,...
FERDINAND KWASI FIAWOO Ferdinand Kwasi Fiawoo (December 1891-1969) was an Ewe playwright, educator, and politician who became prominent in the middle decades of the 20th...
FAWUNDU, FRANCIS Francis Fawundu (18? – circa 1920) was ruler of Mano Gbonjeima, a chiefdom near the coast in southern Sierra Leone from 1893 –...
Dr. McCormack Charles Farrell Easmon (April 11, 1890 – April 30, 1972) was a medical officer who for many years combated racial discrimination in the...
Dr. William Edward Burghardt Du Bois (February 23, 1868 – August 27, 1963) was the most outstanding of the Afro-American militant civil rights leaders at...
Sir Patrick Duncan (December 1870-July 17, 1943), lawyer and administrator, played a role in the formation of the Union of South Africa. He later became...
Nana Dokua, or Dokuwa (17? -1855) was the queen of Akyem Abuakwa, an Akan state in what is now southern Ghana, from about 1817 till...
DJAN, OHENEBA SAMPSON SAKYI Djan Oheneba Sampson Sakyi (1901 – September 21, 1950), a writer, politician, and lawyer, was editor of the Sunlight Magazine (1925...
Cetshwayo (circa 1826-February 8, 1884) was the fourth Zulu king and the last independent ruler of Zululand. He reigned from 1873-1979. He was a strong...
Almamy Kandeh Bokari (18-1880s) was ruler of the Soso state of Morea, today divided between the Republic of Ghana and Sierra Leone. He was one...
