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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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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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Africa
Thomas Sankara, father of the revolution in Burkina Faso
Thomas Sankara, born on December 21, 1949 in Yako in Upper Volta (today Burkina Faso) and assassinated on October 15,…
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Africa
Amilcar Cabral (1924-1973), father of the independence of Guinea Bissau
Amilcar Cabral was born on September 12, 1924 in Bafata, Guinea Bissau. Her father is from Cape Verde and her…
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Africa
The Queen Abla Pokou
Abla Pokou (or Aura Poku, or Abra Pokou) is an African queen who, around 1770, led the Baoulé people from…
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