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Ezana, or Aeizanas, was the 4th-century king of Aksum, in whose reign Christianity was introduced into Ethiopia. He conquered the Nile Valley realm of Kush...
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Diop, David (1927-1960) was born of a Senegalese father, Amadou Diop Yande, and a Cameroonian mother, Marie Bell, on July 9, 1927, in Bordeaux. Long...
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Diop, also called Mour Diop but better known under the name Dial Diop, was one of the founders of the Lebu Republic on Cape Verde...
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Amadu Bamba (c.1850-1927) is the founder of the Muslim Brotherhood of the Mourods of Senegal. He was a marabout (from Murabit in Arabic), which means...
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Stephen Jacobus du Toit (October 9, 1867-May 28, 1911) was a theologian as well as a journalist and a pioneer Afrikaner nationalist. Of direct Huguenot...
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Jacobus Herculas De la Rey (October 22, 1847- September 15, 1914) was an Afrikaner general who fought with distinction in the South African War of...
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Sir Benjamin D’Urban (February 16, 1777-May 25, 1849), soldier and administrator in South Africa and other parts of the British Empire, was born in Halesworth,...
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Ras Gugsa Wale (April 1877-March 31, 1930) was a provincial governor, a military leader, and one of the most enlightened persons among the Ethiopian nobility...
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Dalindyebo (1865-1920) was a modernist nkosi (traditional ruler) of the Abathembu people in the Transkei region of Eastern Cape Province from 1885 to 1920. An...
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John Dunn (1833-1895), an English trader from Natal, settled in Zululand, and was made a Zulu chief by Cetshwayo in 1856. Later, when the British invaded...
