Andrée Blouin
A pivotal figure in the African independence movement of the 1960s.
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Anne-Marie Adiaffi
1900s Ivorian writer
Fadumo Ahmed Dhimbiil
Prominent Djiboutian poet, singer, and songwriter.
Salima Machamba
Salima Machamba was the Sultan of Mohéli (Mwali) from 1888 to 1909.
Mabel Fairbanks
Mabel Fairbanks was a pioneering American figure skater and coach known for breaking racial barriers in the sport.
Amanda Smith
Methodist preacher and former enslaved woman who funded The Amanda Smith Orphanage and Industrial Home for Abandoned and Destitute Colored Children outside Chicago
Borkia
In the mid-1500s, Borkia migrated to Mambolo, between the Little and Great Scarcies rivers in what is now Sierra Leone, from Guinea, likely as part of the Mane invasions of that period. The settlement she ruled was later conquered by Bullom warriors, whose descendents became the area’s five ruling houses.
Dr Jane Cooke Wright
Pioneering African American physician and cancer researcher who made significant contributions to chemotherapy.
Madge Saunders
Jamaican Christian minister and community worker
Lilian Ngoyi
One of four South African women who mobilised support and organised the huge protest that was to take place on August the 9th 1956 at the Union Buildings, the seat of the apartheid government.