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Jan (Frederik) Hendrik Homeyr (March 20, 1894-December 3, 1948), classicist and politician, was the son of Andries Brink Hofmeyr and Deborah Catherina, née Beyers. His...
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Reinhold Frederick Alfred Hoernle (November 11, 1880-July 21, 1943) was a philosopher and a prominent supporter of the Joint Council movement and the South African...
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John Tengo Jabavu (January 11, 1859-Sep-tember 10, 1921), an Xhosa educationist, was the long time editor of Imvo Zabantsundu, the leading African newspaper cf his...
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John Mankah (18?-circa 1900) was a Temne who was associated with the Church Missionary Society (C.M.S.) in Port Loko in western Sierra Leone from 1878...
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Nagadras Gabra Heywat Baykadagn (1888-1919), an Ethiopian civil servant, was a distinguished writer in the field of political economy. He was born in the province...
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Sir James Henley Coussey (March 10, 1895-June 6, 1958), the first African judge to be appointed straight from the Bar without becoming a colonial magistrate,...
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Erasmus Awuku Asamoa (April 19, 1910-1965), an educationist and a minister of the Presbyterian Church of Ghana, advocated the use of African languages in the...
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Nicholas Timothy Clerk (1862-August 16, 1961) was an African-born missionary who engaged in pioneer work with the Basel Mission in what is now southeastern Ghana....
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Sir Edward Okyere Asafu-Adjaye (1903-February 27, 1976), the first Asante lawyer, was also a politician and diplomat, and became Ghana’s first High Commissioner to the...
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Cheikh Anta Diop was born in Diourbel, Senegal, on December 23, 1933, to a Muslim Wolof family. Part of the peasant class, his family belonged...
