Aniru Sahib Sahib Conteh (August 6, 1942- April 4, 2004) was a Sierra Leonean physician who was considered the world’s leading expert on Lassa fever, a disease endemic to West Africa. For over two decades, Conteh risked his life running the only dedicated Lassa fever ward in the world during the Sierra Leone Civil War and the civil war in neighboring Liberia. With little funding and few supplies, Conteh successfully reduced mortality rates, saving thousands of lives until his own death from the disease in 2004.
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Asha-Rose Migiro
Asha-Rose Mtengeti Migiro (born July 9, 1956 in Songea, Ruvuma Region, Tanzania) is a Tanzanian lawyer and politician. On January 5, 2007, she was named as theDeputy Secretary-General of the United Nations. She was formally appointed and assumed office on February 1. She is married to Cleophas Migiro, and the couple has two daughters. She is the third Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations. The Deputy Secretary-General is the second highest ranking official in the UN System after the Secretary-General. Asha-Rose Mtengeti Migiro is the current office holder.
Migiro commenced her education at Mnazi Mmoja Primary School in 1963. She later moved on to Korogwe Primary School, Weruweru Secondary School, and, finally, Korogwe Secondary School, where she graduated high school in 1975.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (born September 15, 1977) is an acclaimed Nigerian writer. She is a native of Abba, Nigeria, in Njikoka Local Government Area of Anambra state, Southeast Nigeria. Her family is of Igbo descent.
Born in the town of Enugu but grew up in the university town of Nsukka in south-eastern Nigeria, where the University of Nigeria is situated. While she was growing up, her father was a professor of statistics at the University, and her mother was also employed there as the university registrar. At the age of 19, she left Nigeria and moved to the United States. After studying at Drexel University in Philadelphia, Chimamanda transferred to Eastern Connecticut State University to live closer to her sister; who had a medical practice in Coventry (now in Mansfield, Connecticut), and to continue studying communications and political science. She received a university degree from Eastern, where she graduated summa cum laude in 2001. In 2003, she completed a master’s degree in creative writing at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. In 2008, she received a Master of Arts in African studies at Yale University. Chimamanda is a 2008 MacArthur Fellow. She was a Visiting Writer at Wesleyan University, in 2008, and participated in Wesleyan’s Distinguished Writers Series.
- Her first novel, Purple Hibiscus, was published in 2003 and won the Best First Book award in the 2005 Commonwealth Writers’ Prize.
- Her second novel, Half of a Yellow Sun, named after the flag of the short-lived Biafran nation, is set before and during the Biafran War. It was published by Knopf/Anchor in 2006 and was awarded the 2007 Orange Prize for Fiction.
- Her third book is a collection of short stories titled The Thing Around Your Neck and was published in April 2009 by Fourth Estate in the UK and Knopf in the US.
Safi Faye
Safi Faye (b. November 22, 1943) is a Senegalese film director and ethnologist. She was the first Sub-Saharan African woman to direct a commercially distributed feature film. She has directed several documentary and fiction films focussing on rural life in Senegal.
Safi Faye was born in 1943 in Dakar, Senegal to a Serer family. Her parents were from Fad’jal, a village south of Dakar. She attended the Normal School in Rufisque and receiving her teaching certificate in 1962 or 1963, began teaching in Dakar.
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Modibo Keïta
Modibo Keita (or Kéïta); (Bamako, 4 June 1915 – Kidal, 16 May 1977) was the first President of Mali (1960 – 1968) and the Prime Minister of the Mali Federation. He espoused a form of African socialism.
He was born in Bamako-Coura, a neighborhood of Bamako, which was at the time the capital of French Sudan. His family were Malian and practising Muslims. He was educated in Bamako and at the École normale supérieure William Ponty in Dakar, where he was top of his class. Beginning in 1936, he worked as a teacher in Bamako, Sikasso and Tombouctou.
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Sorious Samura
Sorious Samura (born 1964) is a Sierra Leonean journalist. He is best known for two CNN documentary films: Cry Freetown (2000) and Exodus from Africa (2001). The self-funded Cry Freetown depicts the most brutal period of the civil war in Sierra Leone with RUF rebels capturing the capital city (January 1999).
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John-Allan Namu
African Journalist of the Year 2009
“I want to work on becoming a better storyteller. I think at the bottom of every journalist’s pursuit are those words: tell me a story. If you’re a good storyteller then no matter what platform you’re reporting on you will succeed,” award-winning Kenyan journalist John-Allan Namu says.
His award-winning films ‘In the Shadow of the Mungiki’ and ‘Inside Story: Scars and Sufurias’ were the result of a four-person production team, intensive research and an investigative mind.
The 26-year-old, who graduated four years ago from his journalism course at Nairobi’s United States International University, thanks his current employer Kenyan Television Network (KTN), who took him on as an intern, for ‘training me and generally moulding me into the journalist I am today’.
Kwame Nkrumah-Acheampong
Kwame Nkrumah-Acheampong (born 19 December, 1974) nicknamed “The Snow Leopard”, is a Ghanaian skiier and is the first person from Ghana to take part in the Winter Olympics, at the 2010 Games held in Vancouver, Canada, taking part in the slalom. He finished 47th out of 102 participants of whom 48 finished.
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Juma Nature
Juma Nature a.k.a Sir Nature (born Juma Kassim Ally, in 1980) is a Tanzanian hip hop artist and a singer. He is the founder and member of a Temeke group called Wanaume, an informal group of rappers from the poor side of Dar es Salaam. Nature is one of the best, well known and most creative artists in the Bongo Flava Swahili hip hop genre, not only is he a great composer and uniquely talented rap artist but also gifted with a soulful and touching voice. In his newest album, “Bongo Flava: Swahili Rap from Tanzania”, many of the lyrics which are in his tracks include current problems within his country.
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Ahmed Hassan
Ahmed Hassan (Arabic: أحمد حسن) (born 2 May 1975 in Maghagha, Egypt) is an Egyptian football player who plays as an attacking midfielder or on the right wing for Egyptian Premier League club Al-Ahly and the Egyptian national team.
Hassan has played in eight Africa Cup of Nations tournaments for Egypt, winning the tournament four times, in 1998, 2006,2008 and 2010. In the 2006 tournament he was named captain and scored four goals in six matches, the second-highest individual goal tally in that year’s tournament. He was named best player of the tournament after winning his second title and Egypt’s fifth, a feat he repeated in 2010 at the age of 34. In 2008, Hassan captained Egypt to their sixth Africa Cup of Nations victory. As of January 25th 2010, Hassan has become Egypt’s most capped player with 170 caps. Ahmed Hassan is one of a number of players who have earned more than 100 international caps for Egypt, and is currently the third most capped player for any country, behind Mohamed Al-Deayea of Saudi Arabia and Claudio Suárez of Mexico.
Hassan broke Hossam Hassan’s appearance record with his 170th cap for Egypt on 25 January 2010 in the Africa Cup of Nations quarter final against Cameroon. He had an eventful game: he headed an Achille Emana corner into his own net (though Emana was credited with the goal); equalized from long range and claimed the final goal in a 3-1 win in extra time from a free-kick despite replays showing the ball did not cross the line.
On 31 January 2010, Hassan picked up his fourth Africa Cup of Nations winners’s medal as Egypt defeated Ghana 1-0 in the final.
Egypt national football team
The Egypt national football team (Arabic: منتخب مصر لكرة القدم), nicknamed The Pharaohs (Arabic: الفراعنة), is the national team of Egypt and is administered by the Egyptian Football Association. They are the current African Champions having won the 2010 African Nations Cup. They are also the most successful African team at Confederation level, winning the CAN seven times: the inaugural African Nations Cup in Sudan 1957, and also won the tournament in the United Arab Republic 1959, Egypt 1986, Burkina Faso 1998, Egypt 2006, Ghana 2008 and Angola 2010.
Abebe Bikila
Abebe Bikila (አበበ ቢቂላ) (August 7, 1932 – October 25, 1973) was a two-time Olympic marathon champion from Ethiopia. He was the first black African in history to win a gold medal in the Olympics. A stadium in Addis Ababa is named in his honor.
1932 – 1959
Abebe Bikila was born on August 7, 1932, the day of the Los Angeles Olympic Marathon, in the village of Jato, located 9 kilometers outside the town of Mendida, Ethiopia. His father was a shepherd. Abebe decided to join the Imperial Bodyguard to support his family, and walked to Addis Ababa where he started as a private.
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