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Carl Christian Reindorf (May 31, 1834 – July 1 , 1917), an evangelical pastor, scholar, trader, physician, and historian, who worked with the Basel Mission,...
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Stephen Jacobus du Toit (October 9, 1867-May 28, 1911) was a theologian as well as a journalist and a pioneer Afrikaner nationalist. Of direct Huguenot...
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Abba Gorgoryos, also called Gregorius, or Gregory (1600-165?), was a 17th-century historian and philologist, and a friend of Hiob Ludolf, a German specialist in Ethiopian...
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The Rev. Samuel Richard Brew Attoh-Ahuma (December 22, 1863-December 15, 1921) was a nationalist politician, journalist, and author, active at the height of the colonial...
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James M. Dwane (1848-1915), born in the Cape Colony, was one of the African church leaders who in 1892 founded the independent Ethiopian Church of...
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Timothy Cekwane (1893-December 1949) was founder and leader of the Zulu spirit church, the Church of the Light. The church emphasises the “cleansing” of itself...
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Thomas Francois Burgers (April 15, 1834-1881), a liberal and strongly reformist minister of the Dutch Reformed Church (Nederduitse Ge-reformeerde Kerk, or N.G.K.), was president of...
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Abraham Fischer (April 9, 1850-November 13, 1943), prime minister of the Orange River Colony from 1907-10, was considered a capable diplomat and a moderate influence....
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Charles Knight (circa 1799-1879) was an Ibo recaptive, who became the first African to be appointed general superintendent of the Wesleyan Methodist Mission in Sierra...
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Nur Hussein ibn Ibrahim al Malkai of Balé (now the province of Mendebo in southeast Ethiopia), a sheikh, a Muslim mystic and teacher of the...
