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When the colony of Liberia came into existence in 1822, its early days were fraught with hardships and poor leadership. The first leader to emerge...
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Siafa Zoe (c. 1871-1940) was a herbalist and renowned native physician. Because of his healing powers, he became a leader of his people and head...
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Kusi Obodum (ruled 1750-64), sometimes called Kwasi Obodum, was an 18th-century king of Asante who, although reputedly peace-loving by disposition, led Asante in a war...
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Solomon Edmund Odamtten (1897-June 12, 1967) combined a successful career in commerce with active participation in social affairs and played a significant role in national...
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Osei Kwadwo (circa 1740/49?-1777), or Osei Kojo, an 18th-century Asante warrior king, who ruled from 1764-77, continued the aggressive and expansionist policy of Opoku Ware,...
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George Sarah Simpson, (1901-64), Educator, Social Worker, Politician, and Lawyer, was born in the settlement of Louisiana, Monsterrado County, to Phillip R. Simpson, a Methodist...
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Tenje Gumba (c. 1877-1928) was the first paramount chief installed in Lofa County by the Liberian Government and was a symbol of the successful rule...
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Antonio de Oliveira Cadornega was the chronicler of the seventeenth–century Angolan Wars. He arrived in Angola in 1639 as a soldier, and forty years later,...
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Grimes Louis Arthur (1883-1948), diplomat and jurist, as Associate Delegate and later Principal Delegate of Liberia to the League of Nations from 1931 to 1933...
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William Essuman-Gwira Sekyi (November 1, 1892-October 5, 1956), popularly known as Kobina Sekyi, was one of the outstanding Gold Coast nationalists of the second and...
