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; it isn't a standalone biography project.
At the opening of the Shitta-Bey Mosque, Lagos, 1894
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- Abdel Kader Haidara 2
- Abdel Rahman Swar al-Dahab 1
- Abdirashid Ali Shermarke 1
- Abdou Diouf 1
- Abdulqawi Ahmed Yusuf 1
- Abdulsalami Abubakar 1
- Abebe Bikila 1
- Abraham Lincoln 1
- Abram Petrovich Gannibal 1
- Abubakar Tafawa Balewa 1
- Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani 1
- Adeyemi I Alowolodu 1
- Adolf Eichmann 1
- Adut Akech 1
- Afeni Shakur 1
- Agbani Darego 1
- Agostinho Neto 1
- Ahmadu Bello 1
- Ahmed Abdallah 1
- Ahmed Sékou Touré 3
- Alassane Ouattara 1
- 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
- Amílcar Cabral 1
- Anne-Marie Imafidon 1
- Apollo Kaggwa 1
- Arthur Wharton 1
- Assimi Goita 1
- Badu Bonsu II 1
- Barack Obama Sr. 1
- Barghash bin Said of Zanzibar 1
- Barthélemy Boganda 1
- Baudouin of Belgium 1
- Béhanzin 2
- Benito Mussolini 1
- Benjamin Banneker 1
- Beyoncé 1
- Bilal ibn Rabah 1
- Bill Bailey 1
- Blaise Compaoré 2
- Bob Denard 1
- Bob Marley 3
- Cetshwayo kaMpande 1
- Charles D. B. King 1
- Charles de Gaulle 2
- Charles Michel 1
- Charles Rotimi 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
- Dambisa Moyo 1
- Daniel arap Moi 1
- Daudi Chwa II 1
- David Livingstone 1
- David M. Goldenberg 1
- David Oyedepo 1
- Dawda Jawara 1
- Denis Mukwege 1
- Denis Sassou Nguesso 1
- Desmond Tutu 1
- Diego Maradona 1
- Dingane 1
- Donald Trump 1
- Dosunmu 1
- Douglas B. Chambers 1
- Edward Colston 1
- Elizabeth II 1
- Ellen Johnson Sirleaf 1
- Emir Abdelkader 1
- Emmanuel Macron 1
- Emmerson Mnangagwa 1
- Ezana of Axum 1
- 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
- France-Albert René 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
- Garrett Morgan 1
- George Foreman 1
- George Washington Williams 1
- George Weah 2
- Giuseppe Ferlini 1
- Gnassingbé Eyadéma 2
- Granville Sharp 1
- Gustav Nachtigal 1
- Haile Selassie 8
- Hamani Diori 1
- Hanno the Navigator 1
- Harold Macmillan 1
- Harriet Tubman 1
- Harry Belafonte 1
- Hassan II of Morocco 1
- Hastings Banda 2
- Hastings Kamuzu Banda 1
- Hatshepsut 1
- Henri Konan Bédié 1
- Henry Chipembere 1
- Henry Kissinger 1
- Henry Nevinson 1
- Henry the Navigator 1
- Herodotus 1
- Hilla Limann 1
- Hissène Habré 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
- James Mancham 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 Garang 1
- John Okello 1
- Johnson Aguiyi-Ironsi 1
- Jomo Kenyatta 2
- Joseph Jenkins Roberts 1
- Julius Nyerere 3
- Kanye West 1
- Ken Saro-Wiwa 1
- Keorapetse Kgositsile 1
- Khaman Maluach 1
- Khufu 1
- Kinjikitile Ngwale 1
- Kitili Maluki Mwendwa 1
- Kofi Abrefa Busia 1
- Kwame Nkrumah 11
- Laurent Gbagbo 1
- 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
- Ludacris 1
- Mahamat Idriss Déby 1
- Mahatma Gandhi 1
- Majek Fashek 1
- Malcolm X 4
- Mamoudou Gassama 1
- Mandla Maseko 1
- Mansa Musa 3
- Marcel Griaule 1
- Marcus Garvey 2
- Margaret Thatcher 1
- Marien Ngouabi 1
- Mark Shuttleworth 1
- Martin Fayulu 1
- Martin Luther King Jr. 3
- Mary Leakey 1
- Maya Angelou 1
- Melchior Ndadaye 1
- Menelik I 1
- Menelik II 1
- 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
- Mohamed Bouazizi 1
- Moshood Abiola 1
- Muammar Gaddafi 5
- Muhammad Ali 4
- Muhammad Naguib 1
- Muhammadu Buhari 1
- Murtala Muhammed 1
- Nanny of the Maroons 1
- Napoléon, Prince Imperial 1
- Ndate Yalla Mbodj 1
- Nelson Mandela 5
- Ngina Kenyatta 1
- Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala 1
- Nicolas Grunitzky 2
- Nicolas Sarkozy 1
- Nina Simone 1
- Njinga Mbande 1
- Nnamdi Azikiwe 3
- Ntshingwayo kaMahole Khoza 1
- Obafemi Awolowo 2
- Oladipo Diya 1
- Oliver Tambo 1
- Olusegun Obasanjo 1
- Omar al-Bashir 1
- Omar Bongo 1
- Patrice Lumumba 3
- Paul Biya 1
- Paul Kruger 1
- Paulin Soumanou Vieyra 1
- Philibert Tsiranana 1
- Philip Emeagwali 1
- Pierre Nkurunziza 1
- Piet Retief 1
- Pope Gelasius I 1
- Pope Miltiades 1
- Pope Nicholas V 1
- Pope Victor I 1
- Pravind Jugnauth 1
- Queen of Sheba 1
- Quentin Atkinson 1
- Ralph Austen 1
- Ramesses III 1
- Rebecca Cann 1
- Robert F. Kennedy 1
- Robert Guéï 1
- Robert Mugabe 4
- Rodolfo Graziani 1
- Ruben Um Nyobè 1
- Ruth Williams Khama 1
- Salva Kiir Mayardit 1
- Sam Nujoma 1
- Samora Machel 1
- Samuel Ajayi Crowther 2
- Samuel Doe 1
- Samuel Sharpe 1
- Sani Abacha 2
- Sarah Tishkoff 1
- Seretse Khama 2
- Seyni Kountché 1
- Shaka 2
- Shaka kaSenzangakhona 2
- Shehu Shagari 1
- Siad Barre 1
- Sibusiso Vilane 1
- Sobhuza II 1
- Solomon Mahlangu 1
- Steve Biko 2
- Sylvanus Olympio 1
- T. Ras Makonnen 1
- Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo 2
- Thomas Fuller (mental calculator) 1
- Thomas Jefferson 1
- Thomas Peters 1
- Thomas Sankara 5
- Tim White 1
- Tom Mboya 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 2
- Walter Rodney 1
- Walter van Beek 1
- Warren G. Harding 1
- William Cadbury 1
- William Tolbert 1
- Winnie Madikizela-Mandela 3
- Yaa Asantewaa 1
- Yahya Jammeh 1
- Yakubu Gowon 7
- Yityish Titi Aynaw 1
- Yoweri Museveni 2
- Zine El Abidine Ben Ali 1