- 5 Min Read
Philip Quaque (1741-1816), sometimes referred to as Philip Quacoe, a pioneering educator and evangelist, was the first African Anglican missionary in the Gold Coast. He...
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Emmanuel Charles Quist (May 21, 1880 – February 28, 1959) was president of the Gold Coast Legislative Council from 1949-50, and Speaker of the Ghana...
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William Wade Harris (c. 18665-1929) was a Liberian “prophet” whose reputation rests on his remarkable feat of evangelism in the Ivory Coast and Western Ghana...
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Benson Stephen Allen (1816-1865) was born in the State of Maryland in the United States of America in 1816 and migrated to Liberia in 1822....
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John Sarbah (c. 1834-1892), father of John Mensah Sarbah, the nationalist lawyer, was one of the most prosperous African merchants on the Gold Coast in...
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Chief Alfred Sam (18?-1930s), a Gold Coast merchant and a pioneer pan-Africanist, was the first black African in the 20th century to attempt to settle...
- 4 Min Read
Frank Ata Osam-Pinanko (1875-1945) was the first African minister of the African Methodist Episcopal Zion (A.M.E.Z.) Church in the Gold Coast. He was born at...
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James Agea Himie Jones born on June 17, 1891 was educated at a Private School, Saint John’s Mission School, and Cuttington College and Divinity School....
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Hayes Bennedict Howard (1903-1963) blind Composer, musician and poet, dominated the Liberian cultural scene for several decades. In his early teens, he traveled extensively through...
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Sampson Opon (circa 1884-circa 1960) was a controversial local preacher who became prominent in Asante in the 1920s. His zeal and fiery preaching touched off...
