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Mwanandungu (who flourished in the mid-19th century) is recalled in oral tradition as one of the leaders of the Lobala people when they migrated to...
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Mwatha Kombana (who flourished circa the 17th century) founded a Lunda-related chiefdom in the region between the Lutshiko and Loange rivers, about 160 km (100...
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Mwene Putu Kasongo (who flourished in about the mid-17th century), a Lunda from western Shaba, subjected the Yaka people living along the Kwango River, southwest...
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Manga Sewa (who flourished in the 19th century) was a powerful ruler in northern Sierra Leone, with many commercial links with northern peoples both in...
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Nabiembali (circa 1815-1860), expanded and ruled the Mangbetu state when its power was at its zenith. Located on the Bomolandi River, a tributary of the...
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Petrus Jacobus Joubert (January 20, 1831-March 27, 1900) was one of the most important military and political leaders in the independent South African Republic (Transvaal)....
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Phuthi Chief from Basutoland, Moorosi (circa 1790s-1879) was the first chief to rebel against Cape rule when the Cape Colony annexed Basutoland in 1869. The...
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Chief Lebua Jonathan (October 30, 1914-April 5, 1987), prime minister of Lesotho for the first 20 years after independence was gained in 1966, was a...
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Jan Willem Janssens (October 12, 1762-May 23, 1838) was governor and military commander of the Cape from 1802 to 1806, during the era in which...
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Sir Samuel Lewis (November 13, 1843-July 9, 1903), barrister and member of the Sierra Leone Legislative Council for more than 29 years, was the leading...
