Africa – Guinea-Bissau
Aristides Pereira (1923-2011)
Aristides Maria Pereira, the son of Porfirio Pereira Tavares and Maria das Neves Crus Silva, was the first President of...
Umaro Embaló
(1972- )
Umaro Mokhtar Sissoco Embaló has been serving as the President of Guinea-Bissau since February 27, 2020. Embaló was born on...
Luis Cabral (1931-2009)
The first president of independent Guinea Bissau was Luis Severino de Almeida Cabral who was born on April 10, 1933,...
Fatima Djalor (1989-2019)
Fatima Djalor was an international children’s welfare activist and the first woman of African ancestry to appear regularly on television...
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...
Harriet Elam-Thomas (1941- )
Harriet Elam-Thomas is a diplomat and professor who served as United States Ambassador to Senegal from 1999 to 2002. She...
Marcia Stephens Bloom Bernicat (1957- )
Born in Tinton Falls, New Jersey in 1957, Marcia Stephens Bloom Bernicat earned a bachelor’s degree in history from Lafayette...
Praia, Cape Verde (1615- )
Praia is the capital and largest city of the island nation Cape Verde, an archipelago approximately 400 miles west of...
Bissau, Guinea-Bissau (1687- )
Bissau is the capital of the nation of Guinea-Bissau. It is located on the Geba River estuary on the Atlantic...
