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Lalibala (later 12th-earlier 13th centuries) ruled as emperor of Ethiopia from about 1182 to at least 1225, and possibly later. He later became a saint...
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Ras Ababa Aragay (August 18. 1903-December 15, 1960) emerged as a hero of resistance to foreign rule during the five-year Italian occupation of Ethiopia (1936-41)....
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Al-Hajj Malik Sy (1855-1929) is the founder of the Zâwiya (school and convent) of Tiwawan (Tivaouane), in Senegal. Member of the Moslem Brotherhood tijâniyya (tidjane),...
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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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Simon Kimbangu (circa 1890-October 12, 1951) was the leader of what is generally considered the most important independent Christian religious movement in central Africa. Although...
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Edward Tolityi Magaya (?-August 25, 1924) was a prominent member of the African Methodist Episcopal (A.M.E.) Church. He played an important role in the development...
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The Rev. Adolphe Mabille (June 12, 1836-May 20, 1894) was a noted Swiss missionary who worked for the Paris Evangelical Mission Society in Basutoland now...
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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...
