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Frederick Torgbor Sai (June 27, 1924 – September 17, 2019) was a Ghanaian academic and a gender and reproductive health advocate, known for his campaigns...

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Thomas Owusu Mensah (c. 1950 – March 27, 2024) was a renowned Ghanaian chemical engineer and inventor who contributed to the development of fiber optic...

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Wangari Maathai (April 1, 1940 – September 25, 2011) Kenyan politician and environmental activist who became the first Black African woman to win a Nobel...

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Lake Retba, better known as Lac Rose (the Pink Lake), lies north of the Cape-Verde peninsula of Senegal, some 30km northeast of the capital, Dakar,...

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A HISTORICAL INTRODUCTION The Republic of South Africa occupies the southernmost area of the African continent, comprising 435,868 square miles. It is about half the...

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HISTORICAL INTRODUCTION Lesotho is a small, mountainous country located on the Drakensberg escarpment on the eastern edge of the southern African plateau. With a territory...

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A HISTORICAL INTRODUCTION Sierra Leone is a small country, roughly circular in shape, and occupying the southwest coast of West Africa between 6° 55′ and...

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 HISTORICAL INTRODUCTION The Republic of Botswana is situated on the southern slope of the great southern African plateau. Landlocked, about 220,000 square miles (569,000 square...

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HISTORICAL INTRODUCTION Equatorial Guinea is the modern name given to the former Spanish colony known as the Equatorial Region of Spain. It consists of Continental...

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Emil Solomon Sachs (died 1976) was the General Secretary of the South African Garment Workers’ Union, a non-racial organization, for 24 years, and a leader,...

Editor’s Note

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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