Andrée Blouin
A pivotal figure in the African independence movement of the 1960s.
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Anne-Marie Adiaffi
1980s Ivorian novelist
Fadumo Ahmed Dhimbiil
Djiboutian poet, singer, and songwriter.
Pancha Carrasco
Costa Rican freedom fighter
Salima Machamba
Salima Machamba was the Sultan of Mohéli (Mwali) from 1888 to 1909.
Mabel Fairbanks
Mabel Fairbanks was a pioneering American figure skater and coach known for breaking racial barriers in the sport.
Dr Jane Cooke Wright
Pioneering African American physician and cancer researcher who made significant contributions to chemotherapy.
Amanda Smith
Methodist preacher and former enslaved woman who funded The Amanda Smith Orphanage and Industrial Home for Abandoned and Destitute Colored Children outside Chicago
Borkia
In the mid-1500s, Borkia migrated to Mambolo, between the Little and Great Scarcies rivers in what is now Sierra Leone, from Guinea, likely as part of the Mane invasions of that period. The settlement she ruled was later conquered by Bullom warriors, whose descendents became the area’s five ruling houses.
Madge Saunders
Jamaican Christian minister and community worker