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Jurist and Royal Air Force (RAF) Flight Lieutenant John “Johnny” Henry Smythe was born on June 30, 1915, in...

Leone Jacovacci (a.k.a. John Douglas Walker and Jack Walker) was born in 1902 in the village of Pombo in...

Alioune Diop was the first black francophone publisher and a major figure in the African intellectual movement of the...

Sarah Forbes Bonetta, a princess of the Egbado clan of the Yoruba people, is best known as the goddaughter...

Efunporoye Osuntinubu Olumosa (often shortened to Efunroye Tinubu) was a shrewd and ambitious Nigerian business tycoon who wielded enormous...

As a six-year-old boy named Quetto, Michele Amatore witnessed his village of Commi in the Nuba Mountains of southern...

Prince Louis Rwagasore was King Mwambutsa IV’s oldest son, and an important political figure in the history of Burundi,...

Walter Ulyate Max Sisulu, a key leader in the African National Congress (ANC), and confidant and mentor to Nelson...

Yityish “Titi” Aynaw was crowned Miss Israel on February 27, 2013.  She made history when she became the first...

The black Magus, or King, in Renaissance Adoration pictures is an enigmatic figure as no black African king is...