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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...
Muhammad ibn al-Mustafa and ‘Umar Kunandi ibn ‘Umar, (who both lived in the 18th century), were Dyula scholars from Gonja (Ngbanya), a state located in...
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Prince John Owusu-Ansa (1922-November 13, 1884) was the son of the Asantehene, Osei Bonsu, [ruled 1800-24], who was given to the British as a hostage,...
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Chitapankwa (d.1883) was one of the greatest Chitimukulus (paramount chiefs) of the Bemba people in north-east Zambia. The first Chitimukulus is a legendary figure, who...
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Brown Aaron Sylvester (1907-1956), painter, sculptor, and architect, was born on December 14, 1907, in Harper City, Cape Palmas. He studied at Liberia College, the...
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Joseph Peter Brown (April 16, 1843 – September 23, 1932) was a Fante teacher, scholar, and politician who defended African interests during the colonial period...
