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Semopa Bavon (circa 1885-March 1, 1933) is remembered as the black apostle of the Giri river region. For 25 years he served as the chief...
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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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Ethelred Nathaniel Jones (June 28, 1884-March 29, 1954) who from the 1920s, onwards also used the name Laminah Sankoh, was one of the most outstanding...
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Abdullah Abdurahman (December 3, 1872 February 20, 1940), was the major political leader of South Africa’s Coloured people from 1905 until his death. He was...
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Daniel Flickinger Wilberforce (1856-1927), paramount chief of Imperi, was the first Christian pastor to become a chief. He was educated mainly in the United States...
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Kpowamoh-ei-Nepo (late 19th century), meaning literally “mad man cannot be coaxed,” was the leader of the Tongo Players, a famous Mende institution that used savage...
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John Daniel Kestell (February 15, 1854-February 9, 1941) was a minister of the Dutch Reformed Church (D.R.C.), Bible translator, and Afrikaner cultural leader. His mother...
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Abbé Adolphe Lankwan (1926-June 6,1965), a highly esteemed Catholic priest in the Kwilu area, became involved with partisans of the Mulele rebellion which swept the...
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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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Abuna Pétros (1882-July 30, 1936) was one of the principal martyrs of the Italian Fascist occupation of Ethiopia (1936-41). Born at Fiché, in the north...
