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Barclay Edwin James, 1882-1955, nephew of Arthur Barclay, was the seventeenth president of the Republic of Liberia. His election as President in 1930 was of...
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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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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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Joseph Kiwele (1912-November 15, 1961) was a leading musician, educator, and politician in the Katanga Province (now Shaba Region). Born at Mpala 0 km (12...
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Reuben Tolakele Caluza (circa 1900-1965) was a Zulu musician, composer, and song writer, whose work also appealed to detribalised Zulu who had moved into the...
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Sir Henry Rider Haggard (June 22, 1856-May 14, 1925) was an English novelist and agriculturalist, famed for his adventure stories about a largely mythical Africa....
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Alaga Heruy Berru (1865-1949) was the leading Ethiopian painter during the later period of the reign of Emperor Menilek [ruled 1889-1913]. The son of a...
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Maria Margaretha Koopmans-De Wet, (March 8, 1834-August 2, 1906) was a cultured woman, renowned as a hostess, patroness of the arts, and ardent patriot. She...
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Domin Konteh Kanfori (14th century), a folk hero, was the leader of the earliest wave of Soso migrants into Sierra Leone. This wave was the...
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Fela Anikulapo Kuti (15 October 1938 — 2 August 1997) was a Nigerian multi-instrumentalist musician and composer, a pioneer of Afrobeat music, a human rights...
