MAXEKE, CHARLOTTE
CHARLOTTE MAXEKE Charlotte Maxeke (1874-1939) was one of South African’s first prominent African Women leaders, perhaps best known as the first President of the Bantu Women’s League of South Africa. The Bantu’s Women League was initiated in the 1913-1914 period of the South African Native National Congress (from the 1920s the African National Congress or […]
KWAKU DUA II
KWAKU DUA II Kwaku Dua II (circa 1860-June 10, 1884), ruled as Asantehene for 44 days in 1884. Known earlier as Agyeman Kofi, he was the son of the Asante Queenmother, Yaa Kyaa, and of Somihene (a minor Kumase functionary) Kwasi Abayie (himself a son of the Asantehene Kwaku Dua I (q.v.), who ruled from […]
KWAKU DUA I
KWAKU DUA I Kwaku Dua I (circa 1797-April 27, 1867) ruled as Asantehene from 1834-67. Upon coming to power, he proclaimed Asante policy as being “Peace, Trade, and Open Roads.” He wielded firm authority in a 33-year reign that was characterised by a foreign policy that sought accommodation rather than war with the British on […]
KHAMA, SERETSE
SERETSE KHAMA Seretse Khama (July 1, 1921-July 13 1980) was a center of a political storm in 1950 when the British Government exiled him from the Bechuanaland protectorate (now Botswana) because of his marriage to a young English woman. Eventually he became president of an independent Botswana, was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II and, through […]
HAILEMARIAM MAMMO
HAILEMARIAM MAMMO Lej Hailemariam mammo (1909-June 6, 1938) was a Patriot of the Ethiopian resistance to the Italian occupation of 1936-1941) and was famed for his courage. He was born at Yaya-Guele, a rural area in the Salale district of Shawa, and was the son of Mammo Haile, himself the son of Haile Andar-gachew, who […]
