Africa – Tunisia
Elizabeth Davenport McKune (1947- )
Ambassador Elizabeth Davenport McKune was born on November 15, 1947 in Detroit, Michigan. She became a Foreign Service officer in...
Gina Kay Abercrombie-Winstanley (1957- )
Gina Abercrombie-Winstanley, the first woman diplomat to lead a U.S. consulate in the gender conservative Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, also...
Cynthia Shepard Perry (1928- )
Cynthia Shepard Perry, a Republican and 25 year career diplomat, has served three Republican presidents. President Ronald Reagan appointed her...
Tunis, Tunisia (9th century BCE- )
Tunis is the largest city and capital of Tunisia. The city, which is situated on a Mediterranean Sea Gulf at...
Terence A. Todman (1926-2014)
Named Career Ambassador, a title equivalent to a four-star general, U.S. ambassador to six different countries, Terence A. Todman was...
Tripoli, Libya (7th Century BCE- )
Tripoli has been the capital of Libya since its independence in 1951. Tripoli is the largest city in the country...
Jan Mostaert’s Portrait of a Moor (1520-1530)
In the following account University of Cincinnati historian John K. Brackett describes the famous 16th Century painting of a black...
J. Max Bond, Jr. (1935-2009)
J. Max Bond, Jr. was a prominent African American architect. He was born in 1935 into a prominent intellectual family...
Frantz Fanon (1925-1961)
Psychiatrist and anti-colonial cultural theorist, Frantz Fanon was born in the French West Indies, in Fort-de-France, Martinique on July 20,...
