Alexandre Tano Kan Koffi
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Africa
Ramesses II, great builder of Egypt
Ramses II (in ancient Egyptian Ousirmaâtrê Setepenrê, Ramessou Meryamon), born around 1304 B.C and died in Pi-Ramses around 1213, is…
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Africa
Félix Houphouët-Boigny, first president of Côte d’Ivoire (Ivory Coast)
Félix Houphouët-Boigny (was born Dia Houphouët on October 18, 1905 in N’Gokro (in the city of Yamoussoukro) according to his…
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Frederick Douglass
Frederick Douglass, born Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey in 1817 or 1818, and died on February 20, 1895 in Washington, was…
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Martin Luther King
Martin Luther King Jr., more commonly known as Martin Luther King, born in Atlanta, Georgia on January 15, 1929, and…
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Africa
Edward Wilmot Blyden
Edward Wilmot Blyden was born on August 3, 1832 in Saint-Thomas, a Caribbean island under the authority of Denmark. Third…
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Africa
What is Pan-Africanism?
Pan-Africanism, is a political movement, as well as a political ideology, which promotes the total independence of the African continent,…
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African Diaspora
Frantz Fanon
Frantz Fanon was born in 1925 in Fort-de-France, Martinique, to a customs inspector father and a merchant mother, both descendants…
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Malcolm X
Malcolm Little, born in Omaha (United States), is the son of a Baptist carpenter preacher, who died in 1931. Malcolm…
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Caribbeans
Queen Nanny, national hero of Jamaica
Queen Nanny or Nanny (c. 1685 – c. 1755), the Jamaican national heroine, is one of the greatest emblematic figures…
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African Diaspora
History of Haiti
The island of Hispaniola was discovered by Christopher Columbus in 1492. It was then inhabited by two indigenous populations: the…
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