Writers, Scholars & Scientists

Magnus John Sampson (May 17, 1900-July 27, 1958), an author of some standing, wrote Gold Coast Men of Affairs and other works. He was the...

Antonio de Oliveira Cadornega was the chronicler of the seventeenth–century Angolan Wars. He arrived in Angola in 1639 as a soldier, and forty years later,...

William Essuman-Gwira Sekyi (November 1, 1892-October 5, 1956), popularly known as Kobina Sekyi, was one of the outstanding Gold Coast nationalists of the second and...

Muhammad ibn al-Mustafa and ‘Umar Kunandi ibn ‘Umar, (who both lived in the 18th century), were Dyula scholars from Gonja (Ngbanya), a state located in...

Johan Hendrik (Henry) de Villiers (June 15, 1842-September 2, 1914), first Baron de Villiers of Wynberg, South Africa, was the first colonial-born chief justice of...

John William Colenso (January 24, 1814-June 20, 1883), was the Anglican archbishop of Natal from 1853 onwards, during the age of British imperial expansion. He...

I.W.W. Citashe (circa 1845-circa 1930) was a Xhosa poet who wrote from around 1875 until the early 1900s. He exhorted Africans to use education, rather...

Louis Faidherbe (b.1818) was the son of a Lille (France) merchant.  He attended the Polytechnic School and later the Metz Military School from which he...

Abba Gorgoryos, also called Gregorius, or Gregory (1600-165?), was a 17th-century historian and philologist, and a friend of Hiob Ludolf, a German specialist in Ethiopian...

Francisco Alvares (14?-circa 1542) was a Portuguese Roman Catholic priest who wrote the first detailed travel book about Ethiopia, the Verdadera Informaçam das terras do...