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Raday, or Radet, who lived in the 16th century, was a chief of the Falasha, a people practising a form of Judaism in the rugged...
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Fasilidas (?-0ctober 18, 1637) reigned as emperor of Ethiopia from 1632-67. He worked to return the state to the faith of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church,...
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Gabru Dasta (1855-January 1950) was one of the few foreign-educated Ethiopians living during the reign of Emperor Menilek II [reigned 1889-1913]. He served the emperor...
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Emmanuel Joseph Peter Brown (1875-May 1929) was a lawyer, journalist, and nationalist, and an author of talent. He would have merited recognition as an outstanding...
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Momo Kai Kai (circa 1812-circa 1900) was a warrior chief in southwest Sierra Leone, who by the end of the 19th century had become the...
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Ato Makonnen Habta Wald (1865-December 1960) was an influential member of the Ethiopian government between 1930 and 1960. Born in Bulga, Shawa, he was the...
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Mandrandele Tanzi (March 20, 1933- February 12, 1974) served in many phases of political life as a government administrator, as a leading theorist of the...
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Ras Makonnen (May 8, 1852-March 22, 1907), whose full name was Ras Makonnen also called Abba Qagnew, served Emperor Menilek Walda Mikael, II [reigned 1889-1913]...
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Seepapitso, (1883-1916), the Kgosi (traditional ruler) of the Bangwaketse for a brief six years, succeeded his famous father, Bathoen I, in 1910. Seepapitso was a...
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Sechele I (circa 1810-1892) was the last independent ruler of the northern Kwena (Bakwena) people of what is now Botswana, the principal group of the...
