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Dusu Sori (circa 1840-circa March 15 or 16, 1940), was ruler of the Dembelia-Musaia chiefdom in north-eastern Sierra Leone from about 1881 to 1940, except...
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Alimamy Dura I (later 19th century-September 14, 1946) was paramount chief of Safroko Limba, a former chiefdom under the Biriwa Limba in northern Sierra Leone....
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Bai Bureh of Kasseh (circa 1840s?-circa 1908), originally called Kebelai, was the resilient general and military strategist who led the 1898 Temne uprising against the...
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Dalla Modu (circa 1770-1841) was for many years an intermediary between the British in Freetown and the chiefs of the hinterland, coming to wield great...
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Eustace Henry Taylor Cummings (December 7, 1890 June 16, 1967), a distinguished doctor and educationist, was Mayor of Freetown from 1948-54. He was the son...
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Andrew Murray Jr. (Graaff-Reinet May 9, 1828- January 18, 1917), minister of the Nederduitse Gereformeerde Kerk (N.G.K.), theologian, writer and educator, was the second of...
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Mpande (1798-1872) was the third king of the Zulus. The first three rulers of the Zulu empire had been brothers, sons of Senzangakhona, a less...
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Farma Tami, a folk hero, who lived at an uncertain date, is traditionally believed to have established the Temne of Sierra Leone as an important...
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Mswati II (1820-1868), proclaimed king of the Swazi at the age of 16, has been described as “the greatest of the Swazi fighting kings.” He...
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Ntsikana, the Christian Xhosa prophet (c1760 – 1820), was born to Gaba, a councillor of Ngqika, and Nonibe, his second wife, and spent most of...
