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Sir Theophilus Shepstone (January 8, 1817-June 23, 1893) is credited with the construction of an administrative policy in both Natal and Zululand for the governance...

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Pixley ka Izaka Seme (circa 1880-1951) is best known as a co-founder of the present day African National Congress and the founder and publisher of...

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Sekhukhuni (circa 1810-August 13, 1882) was a Bapedi chief who, because of his resistance to both the Boers and the British, is regarded as one...

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Hastings Kamuzu Banda (c. 1898 — 1997) was the principal leader of Malawi’s nationalist movement, the architect of the country’s independence from British colonial rule,...

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Omar Bongo Ondimba (born Albert-Bernard Bongo; 30 December 1935 – 8 June 2009) was a Gabonese statesman who served as the second president of Gabon...

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Agostinho Neto (17 September 1922—10 September 1979), was an African liberation revolutionary, poet, physician, and politician who served as the first president (1975–1979) of the...

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Bagamoyo is a historic coastal town founded at the end of the 18th century. It lies on the Zanzibar Channel, 45 miles (75 km) northwest...

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Gorée Island lies just two miles offshore off the coast of Dakar in Senegal and was the largest slave-trading centre on the African coast. European...

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Bunce Island is an island in the Sierra Leone River. It is situated in the estuary of the Rokel River and Port Loko Creek, about...

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Queen Amina of Zazzau (c. 1533 – c. 1610) was a legendary military leader and ruler of the Hausa city-state of Zazzau (present-day Zaria, Nigeria)....

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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