Hatshepsut[a] (c. 1507–1458 BC) was the fifth pharaoh of Egypt’s Eighteenth Dynasty and the Great Royal Wife of Pharaoh Thutmose II. She ruled from around 1479 BC to…
Graça Machel DBE HonFBA is well known Mozambican politician and humanitarian. She was born 17th October 1945 and a widow of former President of Mozambique Samora Machel (1975–1986)…
Cheikh Anta Diop, a Senegalese historian, anthropologist, physicist, and politician, lived from 29 December 1923 to 7 February 1986. He focused on pre-colonial African civilization and the history…
Yohannes IV, a nobleman by birth, a cleric by education, a zealot by faith, moralist by tendency, a monk by practice, a nationalist by policy, and a soldier and…
Nelson Mandela, in full Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela, byname Madiba, (brought into the world July 18, 1918, Mvezo, South Africa—kicked the bucket December 5, 2013, Johannesburg), Black patriot and…