Heroes and Heroines

Julius Gulama (1893-March 8, 1951) was a paramount chief of Kaiyimba in Moyamba district who played a prominent part in developing education and political awareness...

Atsme Giyorgis (1821-1914) a historian of the Galla or Oromo people, was one of the few Ethiopian authors during the reign of Emperor Menilek (1889-1914). Atsme...

Gaki Sherocho (1865-1919) or Chinito, was the last King of Kaffa, in what is now southwest Ethiopia, ruling from 1890-1897. He was the 19th ruler of...

Ngqika (Gaika) (circa 1776-1829) was the paramount chief of the Rarabe Xhosa during a period of power struggle. Ngqika came to the chieftainship of the...

Foday Tarawaly (circa 1780s-1880s), chief of Gbile (Billeh), a town on the Great Scarcies River,  opposite Kambia, in northern Sierra Leone, was an Islamic scholar,...

Ferdinand Kwasi Fiawoo (December 1891-1969) was an Ewe playwright, educator, and politician who became prominent in the middle decades of the 20th century. He was...

Francis Fawundu (18? – circa 1920) was ruler of Mano Gbonjeima, a chiefdom near the coast in southern Sierra Leone from 1893 – 1898 and...

McCormack Charles Farrell Easmon (April 11, 1890 – April 30, 1972) was a medical officer who for many years combated racial discrimination in the Sierra...

William Edward Burghardt Du Bois (February 23, 1868 – August 27, 1963) was the most outstanding of the Afro-American militant civil rights leaders at the...

Sir Patrick Duncan (December 1870-July 17, 1943), lawyer and administrator, played a role in the formation of the Union of South Africa. He later became...