Antonio López
Antonio López y López entered the world on April 12, 1817, in the modest coastal town of Comillas in Cantabria, northern Spain, where he was...
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Sir Francis Drake
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Francis Drake, the eldest son of a farmer, was born near Tavistock in Devonshire, England. His father, Robert Drake, later became a preacher and raised...
Estevanico
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Estevanico, born around 1500 in the bustling Portuguese-controlled port town of Azemmour on Morocco’s Atlantic coast, emerged from a world of Berber heritage and Islamic...
Errol Barrow
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The Legacy of Barbados’ First Prime Minister Errol Barrow, the esteemed first Prime Minister of Barbados, left an indelible mark on the history and development...
Omar Ibn Said
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Omar ibn Said, also known as Umar ibn Said, was a West African Muslim scholar who was enslaved and brought to the United States in...
Patrice Lumumba’s most revealing letter written before his assassination
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Congolese politician and first Prime Minister of the independent Democratic Republic of Congo Patrice Emery Lumumba was assassinated on this day in 1961 at the...
Anderson Ruffin Abbott
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Anderson Ruffin Abbott, physician, educator, journalist, office holder, and hospital administrator; b. 7 April 1837 in Toronto, son of Wilson Ruffin Abbott and Ellen Toyer; m. 9 Aug. 1871 Mary Ann Casey...
Keorapetse Kgositsile
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Keorapetse Kgositsile, in full Keorapetse William Kgositsile, (born September 19, 1938, Johannesburg, South Africa—died January 3, 2018, Johannesburg), South African poet and essayist whose writings focus on...
Cyril Lionel Robert James
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Cyril Lionel Robert James was one of the pioneering post-colonial writers from Trinidad and Tobago. Known for books such as The Black Jacobins and Beyond a Boundary, James was...
Fulani
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The Fula, also known as Fulani or Peul, are an ethnic group spread across several countries in West and Central Africa, including Senegal, Guinea, Mali,...