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Practitioners, Healers & Religious Leaders

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Enoch Josiah Mgijima (1868-May 3, 1928) was the leader of the Israelites, a religious sect involved in the bloody clash with a contingent of South...

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William Raymond (1815-November 26, 1847) was the fearless American missionary who first brought western education and the Christian religion to the Sherbro people of Sierra...

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Alexander Anton Berchthold Merensky (June 8, 1837-May 22, 1918) was a missionary responsible for extensive station foundation in all of South Africa. Merensky came from...

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Aaron Sims (182-1922), a Scottish missionary doctor, was a pioneer worker for the Livingstone Inland Mission (L.I.M.) and the American Baptist Foreign Mission Society (A.B.F.M.S.)...

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Noyi Balfour (circa 1783-1873), an early Xhosa convert to Christianity, was a founder of the Lovedale Missionary Station in the Transkei, and was one of...

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Mopoie Bangezegino (circa 1845-April 15, 1916), a Muslim chief of the Zande people, living between the Uele and Bomou rivers in northern Democratic Republic of...

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Christian Jacob Protten (1715 – August 24, 17 69), a mulatto, was a pioneer Christian missionary and schoolmaster on the Gold Coast in the 18th...

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Philip Quaque (1741-1816), sometimes referred to as Philip Quacoe, a pioneering educator and evangelist, was the first African Anglican missionary in the Gold Coast. He...

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William Wade Harris (c. 18665-1929) was a Liberian “prophet” whose reputation rests on his remarkable feat of evangelism in the Ivory Coast and Western Ghana...

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James Agea Himie Jones born on June 17, 1891 was educated at a Private School, Saint John’s Mission School, and Cuttington College and Divinity School....

Editor’s Note

This website features a collection of articles largely from previously published volumes of the Encyclopaedia Africana, specifically the Encyclopaedia Africana Dictionary of African Biography, which highlights notable individuals from various regions of Africa. Please note that in these volumes, some names of people, towns, and countries were spelled differently than they are today. We have retained these historical spellings to preserve the integrity of the original publications. In some instances, the current spellings are also provided for easy reference.
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