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Giusto da Urbino (August 30, 1814-1856), an Italian Capuchin missionary in Ethiopia from 1846-1855, who became an authority on the Semitic languages of Ethiopia. Jacopo...
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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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Kimpa Vita (circa 1685-July 2, 1706), whose baptised name was Dona Beatriz, founded a religious sect known as the Antonians. The goal of this movement...
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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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Alaga Tayye Gabra-Maryam (1858-August 1924) was an Ethiopian scholar, teacher and writer, as well as an eloquent preacher. Born at Qaroda, in Bagemder, Tayye began...
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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...
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Blattengeta Heruy Walda Selasse (May 8, 1878-September 19, 1938) was an author and historian. He also had a career as a government official and diplomat...
