Military Service – Other
Roger Sauvage (1917-1977)
Roger Sauvage was one the few pilots of African descent to fly in both the French and Russian Air Forces...
Ousmane Sembene (1923-2007)
Ousmane Sembène, prolific writer and film producer, was born in January 1923 in Ziguinchor, Senegal. Official documents were rare in...
Nathaniel Wells (1779 – 1852)
Nathaniel Wells, a former slave, plantation owner, and businessman who lived during the 18th and 19th centuries, was also the...
Walter Daniel John Tull (1888-1918)
Lieutenant Walter Tull was an English soccer player and the first black British Army infantry officer to die on the...
Henri Christophe (1767-1820)
Henri Christophe was a military leader in the Haitian Revolution as well as president and later king of the young...
Jean-Bédel Bokassa (1921-1996)
Jean-Bédel Bokassa, longtime dictator and military leader of the Central African Republic, was born in Bobangui, Oubangui-Chari, French Equatorial Africa...
Manuel Carlos Piar (1782-1817)
A military officer in Venezuelan war for independence against Spanish rule, General Manuel Carlos Piar exemplifies both the struggle for...
Samuel Kanyon Doe (1951-1990)
Samuel Kanyon Doe, army officer and Master Sergeant, was the unelected President of Liberia from 1980 to 1990. Notorious for...
Jerry Rawlings (1947- 2020)
Jerry John Rawlings, former military and political leader in Ghana, was twice head of state, and twice toppled unstable Ghanaian...
