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
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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
Lillian 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.
Rahima Moosa
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.
Sophia De Bruyn
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.
Flora Nwapa
Considered Africa’s first internationally published female novelist
Lumina Sophie
1870: Martinique, French West Indies. An eighteen-year-old pregnant black woman leads a group of her peers in the first worker’s protests since the abolition of slavery in 1848.
Tembandumba
Ruler of the Jaga of what is now Angola.