Heroes and Heroines

Henry Josiah Lightfoot Boston (August 19, 1898 – January 11, 1969), after a distinguished legal career, became the first Sierra Leonean to become governor-general, a...

Frederic Cardew (1839-July 6, 1921) was governor of Sierra Leone from 1894-1900. During his energetic governorship, a Protectorate was declared over the British sphere of...

Bambafara (circa 1830s-July 7, 1921) was the ruler from the 1870s to 1921 of Nieni, today a chiefdom in the Koinadugu District in northeastern Sierra...

Johannes Nkosi (1905-1930), one of the leading lights of the Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA) in the 1920s and one of that Party’s first...

King Ngwane III (d. 1780) is the first king to be commemorated in present-day Swazi ritual. He is the first Diamini-Nguni of the Emalangeni clans...

Lilian Masediba Ngoyi (1911-March 12, 1980) was president of the Federation of South African Women and, in 1956, the first woman to be elected to...

Ebeya Eugéne (1919- February 5, 1964), lieutenant colonel and chief of staff of the Armée Nationale Congolaise (A.N.C.), was the most notable casualty of the...

Emile Adolphe Disengomoka (March 31, 1915- March 15, 1965), educator, civic leader, and novelist, was the first Congolese to receive his Régent Litéraire which is...

Bokari Bombolai (18?-circa 1898) was Bai Kompa (ruler) of Koya, the Temne chiefdom to the east of Freetown, from 1890-98. He also added the name...

Nukwase Ndwandwe (circa 1890-September 15, 1957) was installed as Indlovukati (queen mother) in August 1938 upon the death of her full sister, Lomawa Ndwandwe, the...