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Barclay Edwin James, 1882-1955, nephew of Arthur Barclay, was the seventeenth president of the Republic of Liberia. His election as President in 1930 was of...

ANTONIO DE OLIVEIRA CADORNEGA

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Antonio de Oliveira Cadornega was the chronicler of the seventeenth–century Angolan Wars. He arrived in Angola in 1639 as a soldier, and forty years later,...

DIOUF, GALANDOU

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Diouf Galandou (1875-1941) was a Senegalese politician born in Saint-Louis on September 14, 1875. He belonged to one of those ancient families of Saint-Louis slave...

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