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Balay Zalaqa (1895/96-January 11, 1948) was a brigand chief in Gojam province, and later a Patriot leader who fought against the Italians during their occupation...
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Dingane (circa 1775-1840), also known as Dingaan, was the second Zulu king, and ruled from 1828-40. He was one of the assassins of Shaka, whom...
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El Hadj Omar Saidou Tall (1797-1864), was an Islamic reformer and the man who introduced and spread the Tidjaniya brotherhood in Tropical West Africa. Â ...
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Christian Rudolph de Wet (October 7, 1854-February 3, 1922) was a Boer general during the South African Anglo-Boer War of 1899-1902. De Wet was born...
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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...
