Africa – Angola
Maria Mambo Café (1945-2013)
Maria Mambo Café was an Angolan economist and politician. She was a career member of the Movimento Popular de Libertação...
Carlos Lamartine (1943- )
José Carlos Lamartine Salvador dos Santos Costa is an Angolan musician, diplomat, and statesman who played an essential role in...
Joao Lourenço (1964- )
The current president of Angola, Joao Manuel Goncalves Lourenço, was born on March 5, 1964, in Lobito, Angola. His parents...
Agostinho Neto (1922-1979)
Antonio Agostinho Neto, fondly honored by Angolans as the “Father of Modern Angola” served as the first president of independent...
Sarah Maldoror (1929-2020)
Négritude cinema director, activist, feminist Sarah Maldoror was born Sarah Ducados on July 19, 1929, in Condom, France, of emigrant...
North from Mexico: The First Black Settlers in the U.S. West
The first Black settlers in what is now the western United States were Spanish speakers who came north from what...
First Africans in the Jamestown Colony (1619)
In 1619, 12 years after the first permanent English colony was established at Jamestown, Virginia, a small cargo of enslaved...
Ladinos and Bozales: A Brief Early History of Africans in Colombia: 1500-1800
Few people realize that the percentage of people of African ancestry in the South American nation of Colombia (7%) is...
James Emmanuel Kwegyir Aggrey (1875-1927)
Inarguably, one of the leading figures in African and African American history is Dr. James Emmanuel Kwegyir Aggrey, known as...
