Historical Figures

Every named person from Provenance Africa's researched articles, pulled directly from each article's own subject data. A person's page here is only as complete as the articles that mention them — this isn't a standalone biography project.

• Abdel Kader Haidara 1
• Abdel Rahman Swar al-Dahab 1
• Abdulqawi Ahmed Yusuf 1
• Abdulsalami Abubakar 1
• Abraham Lincoln 1
• Abram Petrovich Gannibal 1
• Abubakar Tafawa Balewa 1
• Adut Akech 1
• Afeni Shakur 1
• Afonso I of Kongo 1
• Agbani Darego 1
• Agostinho Neto 1
• Ahmed Sékou Touré 2
• Albert Luthuli 1
• Alek Wek 1
• Alexander Gordon Laing 1
• Alexander Pushkin 1
• Alexander the Great 1
• Aliko Dangote 1
• Allan Wilson 1
• Allen Onyema 1
• Amanirenas 1
• Ambrose Reeves 1
• Anne-Marie Imafidon 1
• Askia Muhammad I 1
• Assimi Goita 1
• Baudouin of Belgium 1
• Béhanzin 2
• Benito Mussolini 1
• Benjamin Banneker 1
• Bilal ibn Rabah 1
• Blaise Compaoré 2
• Bob Marley 3
• Cetshwayo kaMpande 1
• Charles Michel 1
• Charles Taylor 1
• Che Guevara 1
• Cheikh Anta Diop 1
• Chinua Achebe 1
• Chris Hani 1
• Christiane Amanpour 1
• Chukwuma Kaduna Nzeogwu 1
• Condoleezza Rice 1
• Constand Viljoen 1
• Coretta Scott King 1
• Cudjoe Lewis 1
• Curtis Marean 1
• Cyril Ramaphosa 2
• Daniel arap Moi 1
• David Livingstone 1
• David M. Goldenberg 1
• David Oyedepo 1
• Desmond Tutu 1
• Diego Maradona 1
• Donald Trump 1
• Douglas B. Chambers 1
• Edward Colston 1
• Elizabeth II 1
• Ellen Johnson Sirleaf 1
• Emmanuel Macron 1
• Emmerson Mnangagwa 1
• Ezana of Axum 2
• F.W. de Klerk 1
• Farouk of Egypt 1
• Fasilides 1
• Fela Kuti 2
• Félix Houphouët-Boigny 1
• Félix Tshisekedi 1
• Femi Otedola 1
• Fidel Castro 3
• Folorunsho Alakija 1
• Francisco Macías Nguema 2
• François Mitterrand 1
• Fred Wendorf 1
• Frederick Lugard 1
• Frumentius 1
• Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti 1
• Gaafar Nimeiry 1
• Gabriel Estêvão Monjane 1
• Gamal Abdel Nasser 2
• Garnet Wolseley 1
• George Foreman 1
• George Washington Williams 1
• George Weah 2
• Giuseppe Ferlini 1
• Gnassingbé Eyadéma 1
• Granville Sharp 1
• Haile Selassie 9
• Hanno the Navigator 1
• Harold Macmillan 1
• Harriet Tubman 1
• Harry Belafonte 1
• Hastings Banda 1
• Hastings Kamuzu Banda 1
• Hatshepsut 1
• Henri Konan Bédié 1
• Henry Kissinger 1
• Henry the Navigator 1
• Herodotus 1
• Hilla Limann 1
• Hugh Masekela 1
• Ian Smith 1
• Idi Amin 6
• Idriss Deby 1
• Ignatius Kutu Acheampong 1
• Imane Khelif 1
• Imhotep 1
• Isabel, Princess Imperial of Brazil 1
• Isaiah Washington 1
• Ivan Van Sertima 1
• Jacob Zuma 1
• Jean-Bedel Bokassa 1
• Jean-Claude Ganga 1
• Jean-Jacques Dessalines 1
• Jean-Yves Empereur 1
• Jeremy Corbyn 1
• Jerry Rawlings 1
• Jesse Owens 1
• João Lourenço 1
• John C. Robinson 1
• John Carlisle 1
• John Okello 1
• Johnson Aguiyi-Ironsi 1
• Jomo Kenyatta 1
• Joseph Jenkins Roberts 1
• Julius Nyerere 3
• Kanye West 1
• Ken Saro-Wiwa 1
• Keorapetse Kgositsile 1
• Khaman Maluach 1
• Khufu 1
• Kitili Maluki Mwendwa 1
• Kofi Abrefa Busia 1
• Kwame Nkrumah 10
• Laurent-Désiré Kabila 1
• Leila Lopes 1
• Leo Frobenius 1
• Léon M'ba 1
• Leopold II of Belgium 2
• Lionel Douglas Galton-Fenzi 1
• Lothar von Trotha 2
• Louis Odumegwu Ojukwu 1
• Mahamat Idriss Déby 1
• Mahatma Gandhi 1
• Majek Fashek 1
• Malcolm X 4
• Mamoudou Gassama 1
• Mandla Maseko 1
• Mansa Musa 4
• Marcel Griaule 1
• Marcus Garvey 2
• Margaret Thatcher 1
• Mark Shuttleworth 1
• Martin Fayulu 1
• Martin Luther King Jr. 3
• Mary Leakey 1
• Maya Angelou 1
• Menelik I 1
• Menelik II 2
• Mengistu Haile Mariam 1
• Michael Jackson 1
• Michael Tellinger 1
• Milton Obote 1
• Miriam Makeba 1
• Mobutu Sese Seko 1
• Modibo Keïta 1
• Modjadji 1
• Moshood Abiola 1
• Muammar Gaddafi 5
• Muhammad Ali 4
• Muhammad Naguib 1
• Muhammadu Buhari 1
• Murtala Muhammed 1
• Napoléon, Prince Imperial 1
• Nelson Mandela 5
• Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala 1
• Nicolas Grunitzky 1
• Nicolas Sarkozy 1
• Nina Simone 1
• Njinga Mbande 1
• Nnamdi Azikiwe 2
• Ntshingwayo kaMahole Khoza 1
• Obafemi Awolowo 1
• Oladipo Diya 1
• Oliver Tambo 1
• Olusegun Obasanjo 1
• Omar al-Bashir 1
• Omar Bongo 1
• Osei Tutu I 1
• Patrice Lumumba 3
• Paul Biya 1
• Paul Kruger 1
• Philip Emeagwali 1
• Pierre Nkurunziza 1
• Pope Gelasius I 1
• Pope Miltiades 1
• Pope Nicholas V 1
• Pope Victor I 1
• Queen of Sheba 1
• Quentin Atkinson 1
• Ralph Austen 1
• Rebecca Cann 1
• Robert F. Kennedy 1
• Robert Guéï 1
• Robert Mugabe 4
• Samuel Ajayi Crowther 1
• Samuel Doe 1
• Samuel Sharpe 1
• Sani Abacha 2
• Seretse Khama 1
• Shaka 2
• Shaka kaSenzangakhona 2
• Shehu Shagari 1
• Sibusiso Vilane 1
• Steve Biko 2
• Sylvanus Olympio 1
• Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo 2
• Thomas Fuller (mental calculator) 1
• Thomas Jefferson 1
• Thomas Sankara 5
• Tim White 1
• Tony Allen 1
• Toussaint Louverture 1
• Tshepo Motsepe 1
• Tsietsi Mashinini 1
• Uhuru Kenyatta 1
• Usman dan Fodio 1
• Victor Schoelcher 1
• Virgil Abloh 1
• W.E.B. Du Bois 1
• Walter Rodney 1
• Walter van Beek 1
• Warren G. Harding 1
• William Tolbert 1
• Winnie Madikizela-Mandela 3
• Yaa Asantewaa 1
• Yakubu Gowon 7
• Yityish Titi Aynaw 1
• Yoweri Museveni 2