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Samuel Ajayi Crowther was born in Nigeria, Oyo State, Iseyin Local Government formally Osogun. He was born in 1809 and died on December 31, 1891....
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Ganiyu Adeola Fawehinmi, (Ganiyu Oyesola Fawehinmi) (1938-2009), was a Nigerian author, publisher, philanthropist, social critic, human and civil rights lawyer. He was born on the...
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Dawit I (reigned 1380-1412) was one of the most powerful medieval emperors of Ethiopia. He was the son of Emperor Newaya Krestos. His reign coincided...
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Joseph Dawson (1834- 18?) was active in helping draw up the constitution of the Fante Confederation in the 1860s, and later acted as an intermediary...
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John Aggrey (also Aggery, or Egyir) 1808-1869, chief of Cape Coast from 1865-66, was the first traditional ruler to organise systematic protests against the British...
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Aaron Belisarius Cosimo Sibthorpe (circa 1840-June 20, 1916) was the first historian of Sierra Leone. He was probably brought to Sierra Leone as a boy,...
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Alfred James Shorunkeh-Sawyerr (circa 1861-May 18, 1929), bookseller, printer, journalist, and eventually practicing lawyer, was a forceful and outspoken participant in public affairs in the...
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Thascius Caecillius Cyprianus Afer, African bishop and martyr, who was born in Carthage of rich pagan parents, was first a Professor of Rhetoric and then...
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Abdoulaye Sadji was born in 1910 in Rufisque, a little town in the suburb of Dakar, Senegal. His brilliant student career at the William Ponty...
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Rifa’ Ah Rafi Al-Tahtawi (1801-73), the first intellectual reformer of modern Egypt and father of modern Arabic literature, was born at Tahta, Upper Egypt in...
