African History Encyclopaedia

Robert Moffatt (Ormiston, East Lothian, Scotland, December 21, 1795-Leigh, Kent, England, August 8, 1883) was a missionary and a linguist, who worked in Botswana for...

Alfred Milner [subsequently First Viscount] (March 23, 1854-May 13, 1925), was one of the leading British colonial statesmen and administrators and architect of a unified...

The Koks were a leading Griqua family, of mixed European and Khoisan descent, who flourished, especially near the confluence of the Orange and Vaal Rivers,...

Sarah Gertrude Millin (March 1889-July 6, 1968) left Lithuania for South Africa at the age of five months during a time of Jewish emigration as...

George Nazar Khambule (1884-January 9, 1949) a Zulu Messiah founded a unique religious community whose ethos and structure differed from that of any other independent...

Jacob Hendrik Pierneef (August 13, 1886-October 4, 1957), famous South African painter, was born in Pretoria and spent most of his life there. Pierneef’s father...

Francois Stephanus Malan (March 12, 1871-December 31, 1941), was a leading figure in South African social and political life throughout a long career as a...

Daniel Francois Malan (May 22, 1874- February 7, 1959), statesman, clergyman, and journalist, formed South Africa’s first Afrikaner government, of which he was prime minister...

Tshekedi Khama (September 17, 1905-June 10, 1959), a man bound by tribal tradition was nevertheless a great nationalist who worked tirelessly to advance the people...

Cyril Bunting Rogers-Wright (1905-1971) was a barrister and solicitor of the Supreme Court of Sierra Leone, and from the 1950s played a leading part in...