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Gabru Dasta (1855-January 1950) was one of the few foreign-educated Ethiopians living during the reign of Emperor Menilek IIÂ [reigned 1889-1913]. He served the emperor...
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Marian Ewurama Addy (7 February 1942 – 14 January 2014) born Marian Ewurama Cole was a Ghanaian biochemist and the first Ghanaian woman to attain...
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Olive Schreiner (March 24, 1855 – December 11, 1920) is best known, both within and outside South Africa, for her novel The Story of an...
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Kate Dawson (lived in the 19th century), or Kate Swanzy, whose African name was Efua Ketse, was a merchant, philanthropist, and patriot who became prominent...
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Joseph William De Graft Johnson (August 5, 1860- February 28, 1928), a Cape Coast merchant, popularly known as Kwesi Johnson, was closely connected with political...
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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...
