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Nicholas Julius George Ballanta-Taylor (1893-1962) was a musicologist, organist, and composer. He was born in Freetown and educated at the local Church Missionary Society (C.M.S.)...
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Mara Balansama (mid-18th century?-1830s?), was a ruler of Barawa, a Koranko chiefdom in what is now part of the Nieni chiefdom in the Koinadugu district...
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John Knox Bokwe (March 15, 1855-February 22, 1922) was a Xhosa missionary, educator, and musician who played a role in the foundation in 1916 of...
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Ndlambe (circa 1740-1828), a Xhosa of the Eastern Cape, was regent of the Rarabe Xhosa from 1787-96 and founder of the breakaway Ndlambe Xhosa. Ndlambe...
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Henry Masila Ndawo (1883-1949), a school teacher, novelist, poet, preserver of oral literature, political activist and writer, was born among the amaHlubi at Bethesda near...
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John Farrell Easmon (June 30, 1856- June 9, 1900), was a distinguished Sierra Leonean doctor who was chief medical officer of the Gold Coast from...
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Thomas Levi Mvabaza was born in Peddie, near Grahamstown, Cape Province (d. 1955). He was educated at both St. Matthew’s College, Middledrift, and Zonnebloem, Cape...
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Bambatha (circa 1865-1906), chief of the Zondi, a small branch of the Zulu people, was the leader of the 1906 Zulu revolt in Natal, also...
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Percy Petre Tshikidso Qoboza (1938-January 18, 1988) was a prominent South African journalist who was a persistent critic of apartheid. Known as “Percy” to friend...
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During the early 1800s Matiwane (d. 1829) was chief of the Ngwaneni, “The Nomads of Wrath,” who lived in the foothills of the Drakensberg Range...











