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Christian Rudolph de Wet (October 7, 1854-February 3, 1922) was a Boer general during the South African Anglo-Boer War of 1899-1902. De Wet was born...
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Ezana, or Aeizanas, was the 4th-century king of Aksum, in whose reign Christianity was introduced into Ethiopia. He conquered the Nile Valley realm of Kush...
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Diop, David (1927-1960) was born of a Senegalese father, Amadou Diop Yande, and a Cameroonian mother, Marie Bell, on July 9, 1927, in Bordeaux. Long...
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Johan Hendrik (Henry) de Villiers (June 15, 1842-September 2, 1914), first Baron de Villiers of Wynberg, South Africa, was the first colonial-born chief justice of...
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Diop, also called Mour Diop but better known under the name Dial Diop, was one of the founders of the Lebu Republic on Cape Verde...
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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,...
