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  • In 2010 Mr Mwangi was named by the Financial Times as one of the 50 emerging market business leaders that have shaped the economic performance of their regions. In September 2011...0December 22, 2011

    Dr.James Mwangi

    In 2010 Mr Mwangi was named by the Financial Times as one of the 50 emerging market business leaders that have shaped the economic performance of their regions. In September 2011…

  • Kwame Anthony Appiah (born 1954) is a Ghanaian-British-American  philosopher, cultural theorist, and novelistwhose interests include political and moral theory, the philosophy of language and mind, and African intellectual history. Kwame Anthony Appiah grew up in Ghana...0December 7, 2011

    Kwame Anthony Appiah

    Kwame Anthony Appiah (born 1954) is a Ghanaian-British-American  philosopher, cultural theorist, and novelistwhose interests include political and moral theory, the philosophy of language and mind, and African intellectual history. Kwame Anthony Appiah grew up in Ghana…

  • Leymah Roberta Gbowee (b. 1972) is an African peace activist responsible for organising a peace movement that brought an end to the Second Liberian Civil War in 2003. This led to the election of Ellen Johnson Sirleaf in Liberia, the...0October 18, 2011

    Leymah Gbowee

    Leymah Roberta Gbowee (b. 1972) is an African peace activist responsible for organising a peace movement that brought an end to the Second Liberian Civil War in 2003. This led to the election of Ellen Johnson Sirleaf in Liberia, the…

  • The New Hope Movement (NHM) aims to reduce infant and maternal mortality in Sierra Leone and other parts of Africa. Presently, the number of maternal deaths that occur in Sierra Leone...0July 28, 2011

    New Hope Movement

    The New Hope Movement (NHM) aims to reduce infant and maternal mortality in Sierra Leone and other parts of Africa. Presently, the number of maternal deaths that occur in Sierra Leone…

  • Warren Kizza Besigye Kifefe (born on April 22, 1956, Rukungiri, Uganda) is a former colonel in the Ugandan army, chairman of the Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) party and was a contestant in Uganda’s2001, 2006 and...0April 28, 2011

    Kiiza Besigye

    Warren Kizza Besigye Kifefe (born on April 22, 1956, Rukungiri, Uganda) is a former colonel in the Ugandan army, chairman of the Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) party and was a contestant in Uganda’s2001, 2006 and…

  • Ernest Cole (1940 – February 19, 1990) was a South African photographer. Ernest Cole was born in Eersterust in Pretoria, South Africa in 1940. He left school early and became...0December 8, 2010

    Ernest Cole

    Ernest Cole (1940 – February 19, 1990) was a South African photographer. Ernest Cole was born in Eersterust in Pretoria, South Africa in 1940. He left school early and became…

  • Cover of Slave Mende Nazer is a British author and human rights activist, whose work is mostly based on a former life as a slave in Sudan. Nazer, who lived in a village...0September 8, 2010

    Mende Nazer

    Cover of Slave Mende Nazer is a British author and human rights activist, whose work is mostly based on a former life as a slave in Sudan. Nazer, who lived in a village…

  • THE 2009 WORLD FOOD PRIZE was awarded to Dr. Gebisa Ejeta of Ethiopia, whose sorghum hybrids resistant to drought and the devastating Striga weed have dramatically increased the production and availability...0July 29, 2010

    Dr. Gebisa Ejeta

    THE 2009 WORLD FOOD PRIZE was awarded to Dr. Gebisa Ejeta of Ethiopia, whose sorghum hybrids resistant to drought and the devastating Striga weed have dramatically increased the production and availability…

  • Dr. Anna Kajumulo Tibaijuka (b.1950) is an Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations and Executive Director of the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-HABITAT). She is the highest ranking African woman in the UN System....0July 13, 2010

    Anna Tibaijuka

    Dr. Anna Kajumulo Tibaijuka (b.1950) is an Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations and Executive Director of the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-HABITAT). She is the highest ranking African woman in the UN System….

  • Bishop Abel Tendekayi Muzorewa (14 April 1925 – 8 April 2010) served as Prime Minister of Zimbabwe Rhodesia from the Internal Settlement to the Lancaster House Agreement in 1979. A...0April 10, 2010

    Bishop Abel Muzorewa

    Bishop Abel Tendekayi Muzorewa (14 April 1925 – 8 April 2010) served as Prime Minister of Zimbabwe Rhodesia from the Internal Settlement to the Lancaster House Agreement in 1979. A…

  • Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o (born January 5, 1938 is a Kenyan author, formerly working in English and now working in Gĩkũyũ. His work includes novels, plays, short stories, essays and scholarship, criticism and children’s literature....0April 3, 2010

    Ngugi wa Thiong’o

    Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o (born January 5, 1938 is a Kenyan author, formerly working in English and now working in Gĩkũyũ. His work includes novels, plays, short stories, essays and scholarship, criticism and children’s literature….

  • Kwame Nkrumah (21 September 1909 – 27 April 1972), was an influential 20th century advocate of Pan-Africanism, and the leader of Ghana and its predecessor state, the Gold Coast, from 1952 to 1966....0March 26, 2010

    Kwame Nkrumah

    Kwame Nkrumah (21 September 1909 – 27 April 1972), was an influential 20th century advocate of Pan-Africanism, and the leader of Ghana and its predecessor state, the Gold Coast, from 1952 to 1966….

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