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Amadu Bamba (c.1850-1927) is the founder of the Muslim Brotherhood of the Mourods of Senegal. He was a marabout (from Murabit in Arabic), which means...
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Stephen Jacobus du Toit (October 9, 1867-May 28, 1911) was a theologian as well as a journalist and a pioneer Afrikaner nationalist. Of direct Huguenot...
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Jacob Abraham Uitenhage de Mist (April 30, 1749-August 3, 1823) was the Dutch commissioner-general at the Cape from 1803-1805, when the Netherlands and its possessions...
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Jacobus Herculas De la Rey (October 22, 1847- September 15, 1914) was an Afrikaner general who fought with distinction in the South African War of...
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Sir Benjamin D’Urban (February 16, 1777-May 25, 1849), soldier and administrator in South Africa and other parts of the British Empire, was born in Halesworth,...
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Ras Gugsa Wale (April 1877-March 31, 1930) was a provincial governor, a military leader, and one of the most enlightened persons among the Ethiopian nobility...
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Dalindyebo (1865-1920) was a modernist nkosi (traditional ruler) of the Abathembu people in the Transkei region of Eastern Cape Province from 1885 to 1920. An...
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John Dunn (1833-1895), an English trader from Natal, settled in Zululand, and was made a Zulu chief by Cetshwayo in 1856. Later, when the British invaded...
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Queen Gudit, who flourished in the 10th century, and who was also known as Yodit, Judith, and Esato (“The Fire”), was a non-Christian rebel leader...
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John Francis Cradock (August 12, 1762-July 6, 1839) was governor of the Cape Colony from 1811 to 1814. As governor he ordered the military against...
