African History Encyclopaedia

Hayes Bennedict Howard (1903-1963) blind Composer, musician and poet, dominated the Liberian cultural scene for several decades. In his early teens, he traveled extensively through...

Sampson Opon (circa 1884-circa 1960) was a controversial local preacher who became prominent in Asante in the 1920s. His zeal and fiery preaching touched off...

Faulkner Thomas J.R. (1870-1942) was born in the state of North Carolina, U.S.A., and migrated to Liberia as a young man. He was educated in...

Osei Bonsu (1779-1824) was the seventh Asantehene, and the greatest of the 19th-century Asante warrior kings. He was born in 1779, and in 1800 succeeded...

Nana Ofori Kuma II (June 13, 1879 -June 17, 1954), or Bernard Ofosu Apea Koranteng, was the first barrister to become an Omanhane (paramount chief)...

Massaquoi Nathaniel Varney (1905-1962), Secretary of Education for the Republic of Liberia, 1957-1962. He was born in Gandima, Sierra Leone, on June 13, 1905, and...

Dempster Roland Tombekai (December 9, 1910 – September 24, 1965), author, member of the House of Representatives, eminent scholar, Professor of Latin and World Literature....

Joseph Jenkins Roberts, (1809-1876) businessman, soldier, educator, and statesman, was born on March 15, 1809, in Norfolk, Virginia, and migrated to Liberia in 1892. As...

Alfred John Ocansey (1879-September, 1943) was a pioneer businessman, newspaper proprietor, and nationalist politician. The first to introduce the cinema, and other innovations, to the...

Joseph Fulton Dunbar was born in the city of Greenville, Sinoe County in Liberia on May 12, 1874. His parents were George Augustus and Jerusha...