Afican History Encyclopaedia

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Allan MacLeod Cormack (February 23, 1924 – May 7, 1998), Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine, is renowned as one of the developers of computerised...

ODHIAMBO, THOMAS RISLEY

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Thomas Risley Odhiambo (February 4, 1931 – May 26, 2003), a recipient of the Albert Einstein Medal in 1979, was a renowned Kenyan entomologist who...

BUREH, BAI

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Bai Bureh of Kasseh (circa 1840s?-circa 1908), originally called Kebelai, was the resilient general and military strategist who led the 1898 Temne uprising against the...

PATON, ALAN

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Alan Stewart Paton (January 11, 1903-April 1988) was a prominent South African novelist, a spokesperson for prison reform, and a founding member of the Liberal...

This website features a collection of articles largely from previously published volumes of the Encyclopaedia Africana, specifically the Encyclopaedia Africana Dictionary of African Biography, which highlights notable individuals from various regions of Africa. Please note that in these volumes, some names of people, towns, and countries were spelled differently than they are today. We have retained these historical spellings to preserve the integrity of the original publications. In some instances, the current spellings are also provided for easy reference.
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