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Charles Heddle (1812-187?) was an outstanding businessman who pioneered the export trade in peanuts (groundnuts) from Sierra Leone, and became in time the most prosperous...
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Barend Barends (circa 1770-1839) was a Griqua bandit leader who, with his brother Nicholaas, led the Barends clan, one of the two component clans of...
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Kontorfilli Haidara (1890?-February 16, 1931) was a Soso Muslim (a Mande speaking group spreading across northwest Sierra Leone and Guinea) who had a short and...
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The Waterboers were a leading Griqua (Khoikhoi or “Hottentot”) family of the 19th century who flourished near the northern border of Cape Colony. The principal...
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Gombu Smart or Koko (18th-early 19th centuries) was an ex-slave who became a powerful chief, ruling at Rokon near the Rokel (Sierra Leone River in...
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Gbanya Longo (18?-1878) was the last great ruler of the Kpaa-Mende (the western branch of the Mende, in south central Sierra Leone) in the pre-colonial...
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Gbanka (?-May 1898) was Fula Mansa of Yoni Temne, a chiefdom about 112 km (70 mi) due east of Freetown. He opposed the British in...
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Fomgboe (who lived in the mid and later 19th century), a Loko leader, was the ruler of Tembu, a town in Lower Loko country, to...
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Ensala (187-circa 1926), a former slave, rose to prominence in colonial times as ruler over the large Bobangi chiefdom extending from the mouth of the...
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Edjumbu (circa 1880-1937), an extremely wealthy polygamous trader of the Ndolo people, used his riches, geographical location, and local influence to gain an important position...
