Africa – Madagascar
Wanda L. Nesbitt (1956- )
Wanda L. Nesbitt holds the rank of Career Minister in the U.S. Foreign Service. She joined the United States Foreign...
Port Louis, Mauritius (ca. 1650- )
Port Louis is the largest city and capital of the small island nation Mauritius, which is located in the southwest...
Victoria, Seychelles (1772- )
Victoria is the capital city of the Republic of Seychelles, a country made up of 115 small islands in the...
Clifton Reginald Wharton, Sr. (1899-1990)
Clifton R. Wharton, one of the first African-Americans to hold a professional position in the U.S. State Department, was born...
Islam and the African Diaspora in the Indian Ocean World
In the following article historian Omar H. Ali explores a lesser-known aspect of the global African Diaspora, the spread of...
Thomas Sankara (1949-1987)
Thomas Sankara, political leader of Burkina Faso in the 1980s, was born on December 21, 1949 in Yako, a northern...
African Union (2002- )
The African Union (AU) is an alliance of 53 African states that aim to advance and integrate Africa as a...
Blaise Diagne (1872-1934)
Galaye M’baye Diagne, the first African elected at the French National Assembly and to obtain a post in the French...
Mifflin Wistar Gibbs (1823-1915)
Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on April 17, 1823, Mifflin Wistar Gibbs apprenticed as a carpenter. By his early 20s, he...
