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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,...
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Thomas Hutton-Mills (June 1865-March 14, 1931), the first president of the National Congress of British West Africa, was a noted politician, statesman, educationist, and lawyer,...
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C.S. Mabaso (?-1936) was an official of the African National Congress (ANC) in its early years. He was born and educated in Natal, and later...
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Albert John Mvumbi Lutuli (circa 1898 to July 21, 1967) was the president-general of the African National Congress (ANC) of South Africa for 15 crucial...
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Nicolaas Petrus Van Wyk Louw (1906-1970), the foremost Afrikaans poet, essayist and dramatist, was born in Sutherland, Cape Province. He received his education both there...
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Willem Johannes Leyds (Magelang, Java, May 1, 1859-The Hague, Netherlands, May 14, 1940) was a Dutch lawyer who rendered the Transvaal Republic admirable service in...
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Bombo Lahai (Bombolai) Konko Gbaku (who ruled from about 1884 to 1911) was the third paramount chief of Tonko Limba. Much of his reign was...
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James M. Dwane (1848-1915), born in the Cape Colony, was one of the African church leaders who in 1892 founded the independent Ethiopian Church of...
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Timothy Cekwane (1893-December 1949) was founder and leader of the Zulu spirit church, the Church of the Light. The church emphasises the “cleansing” of itself...
