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During a decade when African-Americans continued to endure the enforced status of being separate and unequal, Sidney Poitier became an inspirational movie star. More than an actor (and Academy-Award...
Professor Ali Mazrui needs no introduction to any student of African politics. Recently nominated as one of the 100 greatest living public intellectuals in the world by the...
Shirley Anita St. Hill Chisholm (November 30, 1924 – January 1, 2005) was an American woman who dared to be herself, a politician, educator, author and most importantly...
Mohammed "Mo" Ibrahim founded Celtel, a mobile phone company that now serves 23 countries in Africa and the Middle East; he sold in 2005 for $3.4 billion and pocketed...
Susan Wenger ‘Adunni Olorisa Half a lifetime ago, Susanne Wenger dedicated herself to reviving the traditions of the pre-Christian Yoruba gods, "the orishas", and left...
Justice Ahmed Moosa Ebrahim was born on December 2, 1937 in Kadoma, Zimbabwe. Justice Ebrahim is a retired Judge of the Supreme Court of Zimbabwe. He is also Chairman...
Australian obstetrician Dr Catherine Hamlin was born in Sydney on 24 January 1924, one of six children of Elinor and Theodore Nicholson. The family lived in the suburb of...
Richard Erskine Frere Leakey (born 19 December 1944 in Nairobi) is a politician, paleoanthropologist and conservationist. Richard Erskine Leakey was born in Nairobi, Kenya, a...
Neil deGrasse Tyson (born October 5, 1958) is an American astrophysicist and science communicator. He is currently the Frederick P. Rose Director of the Hayden Planetarium at the Rose...
Former U.S. Rep. Louis Stokes played a pivotal role in the quest for civil rights, equality, and social and economic justice throughout his tenure in the Unites States Congress....
Carl Burton Stokes(June 21, 1927–April 3, 1996) was an Americanpolitician of theDemocratic party who served as the 51stmayor of Cleveland, Ohio. Elected on November 7, 1967, but took office...
Dr. Olalekan Banwo, a Professor from Ahmadu Bello University in Zaria, Nigeria, is researching ways to eradicate a rice virus disease that affects developing countries, including his own. The...
In the 1950s the National Association for the Advancement of Coloured People was involved in the struggle to end segregation on buses and trains. In 1952 segregation on inter-state...
Bayard Rustin(March 17, 1912 – August 24, 1987) was anAmericanleader insocial movementsforcivil rights,socialism, pacifism andnon-violence, andgay rights. "Bayard" is pronounced to rhyme with hired.
Oliver tambo (Oct 27,1917-April 24,1993) was the president of the South African black-nationalist, African National Congress (ANC) from 1969. He spent more than 30 years in exile. ...
Angelo Soliman (born c. 1721, probably in present-day northeastern Nigeria/northern Cameroon; he died on November 21, 1796, in Vienna). Taken to Europe as a slave, he was freed and...