GAH – The Commanders
Seh-Dong-Hong-Beh (1835?-1860?)
Seh-Dong-Hong-Beh, a name that means ‘God Speaks True’ in the Fon language, was a remarkable leader of the Mino, also...
Zumbi dos Palmares (1655-1695)
Zumbi dos Palmares was a Brazilian Quilombola leader of a group of Afro-Brazilians who lived in maroon communities known as...
Dingane (1795-1840)
Dingane ka Senzangakhona, a Zulu prince became the second king of the Zulu Kingdom after the death of its founder,...
Cetshwayo kaMpande (1826-1884)
King Cetshwayo of the Zulu Kingdom, was born in 1826 in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, to Zulu king Mpande, and Queen...
Mbuya Nehanda (c. 1840-1898)
Nehanda Charwe Nyakasikana, also known as Mbuya Nehanda, was a Svikiro or spirit medium of the Zezuru Shona people. She...
Mmanthatisi (1784-1847)
Mmanthatisi was the chief military strategist of the Tlowka people in early 19th Century South Africa. Mmanthatisi was born in...
Queen Amina (1533-1610)
Queen Amina was a warrior and ruler of Zaria, a Hausa city-state in what is now Northern Nigeria. She ruled...
Ivan Hannibal (1737 – 1801)
Russian military leader, Chief Commander of the Kherson, and General-in-Chief, Ivan Hannibal, was the eldest of Abram Hannibal’s eleven children...
La Mulatresse Solitude (ca 1772-1802)
La Mulatresse Solitude (the Mulatto Solitude) is a national hero on the French Caribbean islands of Guadeloupe. Although very little...
