Muhammad ibn Tumart: The First Leader of the Almohads
Muhammad ibn Tumart (ca. 1080–1130) was a North African religious reformer who founded the Almohad movement in North Africa. His organisation of Berber warriors helped...
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Richard Ihetu: One of the greatest fighters to come out of Africa
Richard “Tiger” Ihetu was one of the greatest boxers to come out of Africa. He made history in 1962 when he won the world middleweight...
Tony Allen: Master Drummer of Afrobeat
Tony Oladipo Allen is a Nigerian drummer, composer and songwriter who has been described as “perhaps the greatest drummer who has ever lived.” As drummer...
Dr. Raphael Armattoe: Renowned Ghanaian doctor who discovered the Abochi drug
Raphael Ernest Grail Armattoe was a renowned Ghanaian doctor, anthropologist, author, poet, and politician. His research into the use of the Abochi drug against human parasites is widely reported...
Dr. Alex Quaison-Sackey: First African President of the General Assembly of the United Nations
Dr. Alex Quaison-Sackey (August 9, 1924– December 28, 1992) was a Ghanaian diplomat during the presidency of Kwame Nkrumah and the first diplomat from a...
William Kamkwamba: “The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind!”
William Kamkwamba (born 5 August 1987) is a Malawian inventor, engineer, and author. He gained renown in Malawi in 2001, when, at the age of...
Edward Wilmot Blyden: A Voice from Bleeding Africa
“Africa will furnish a development of civilization which the world has never yet witnessed. Its great peculiarity will be its mortal element.” Edward Wilmot Blyden was...
Lucky Dube: South Africa’s Best-selling Reggae artist
“Musicians have always educated people through music, you know even though now a days a lot of music just talks about sex, women, and drugs....
Emperor Haile Selassie I: “Might of the Trinity”
“Look to Africa when a Black king shall be crowned, for the day of deliverance is near.” Emperor Haile Selassie I was Ethiopia’s 225th and...
Djibril Diop Mambety: The Prince of Colobane
Djibril Diop Mambéty (January 1945 – July 23, 1998) was a Senegalese film director, actor, composer, and poet, loved and admired by critics and audiences...