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,...
DR. FERDINAND KWASI FIAWOO Dr Ferdinand Kwasi Fiawoo (December 1891-1969) was an Ewe playwright, educator, and politician who became prominent in the middle decades of...
FRANCIS FAWUNDU Francis Fawundu (18? – circa 1920) was ruler of Mano Gbonjeima, a chiefdom near the coast in southern Sierra Leone from 1893 –...
BEOKU-BETTS, E.S. Ernest Samuel Beoku-Betts (March 15,1895-september 23,1957) was one of the most outstanding Krio (Creole) liberals of his time. As one of the first...
MCCORMACK CHARLES FARRELL EASMON Dr. McCormack Charles Farrell Easmon (April 11, 1890 – April 30, 1972) was a medical officer who for many years combated racial...
WILLIAM EDWARD BURGHARDT DU BOIS Dr. William Edward Burghardt Du Bois (February 23, 1868 – August 27, 1963) was the most outstanding of the Afro-American...
SIR PATRICK DUNCAN Sir Patrick Duncan (December 1870-July 17, 1943), lawyer and administrator, played a role in the formation of the Union of South Africa....
NANA DOKUA Nana Dokua, or Dokuwa (17? -1855) was queen of Akyem Abuakwa, an Akan state in what is now southern Ghana, from about 1817...
OHENEBA SAMPSON SAKYI DJANG Oheneba Sampson Sakyi Djang (1901 – September 21, 1950), a writer, politician, and lawyer, was editor of the Sunlight Magazine (1925 – 1936),...
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...
