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Makaba II (circa 1760-1824), was a noted warrior-king who consolidated and expanded the power of the Bangwaketse in the southern part of what is now...
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Edward Tolityi Magaya (?-August 25, 1924) was a prominent member of the African Methodist Episcopal (A.M.E.) Church. He played an important role in the development...
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Anton Muziwakhe Lembede, (1914-1947), was a founder and first president of the Congress Youth League (C.Y.L.), and was a major figure in the evolution of...
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George Macartney (May 14, 1737-May 5, 1806) was the first British governor of the Cape Colony. He served from 1797 to 1798, shortly after the...
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Cornelis Jacob Langenhoven (August 12, 1873-July 15, 1932) was a writer, journalist, and politician, but above all fighter for the rights of the Afrikaans language....
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The Rev. Adolphe Mabille (June 12, 1836-May 20, 1894) was a noted Swiss missionary who worked for the Paris Evangelical Mission Society in Basutoland now...
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Langalibalele (1818-1889) was the ruler of the AmaHlubi who had settled near Ntabamhlope on the foothills of the Kwahlamba (Drakensberg) mountains. He precipitated a crisis...
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Saint Walata Petros (1594-November 24, 1643), one of the few women saints in Ethiopian hagiography, played a leading role in the anti-Catholic struggle waged by...
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Giusto da Urbino (August 30, 1814-1856), an Italian Capuchin missionary in Ethiopia from 1846-1855, who became an authority on the Semitic languages of Ethiopia. Jacopo...
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Kwane (circa 1640-1709), a councillor of Tshiwo, chief of the Ama-Xhosa, who ruled about 1685, was a noble-hearted commoner who founded the Ama-Gqunukwebe ethnic group,...
