Figures

Thomas Joseph Odhiambo Mboya, better known as Tom Mboya, was one of the most prominent figures in Kenyan history in...

Flora Nwapa, born Florence Nwanzuruahu Nkiru Nwapa in 1931 in Oguta, southeastern Nigeria, was a pioneer and icon of "feminist"...

Aristides Maria Pereira was born on November 17, 1923, in Fundo de Figueiras, Cabo Verde. He received his primary education...

V. Y. Mudimbe (full name: Valentin-Yves Mudimbe) was one of the most prominent African thinkers of the twentieth century and...

Alemseged Tesfai is one of Eritrea's most prominent intellectuals, writers, and researchers, and a pivotal figure in preserving and documenting...

Muhammadu Buhari, one of the most prominent political and military figures in Nigeria's modern history, was a military general who...

Thomas Mofolo is one of the most important literary figures in Africa's history and is widely recognised as the first...

Paulin J. Hountondji is one of the most important African philosophers of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries and a pivotal...

Joseph Ki-Zerbo is one of the most important African historians and thinkers of the twentieth century and a pivotal figure...

Mahmood Mamdani is one of Africa's most prominent contemporary thinkers and a leading critical voice in postcolonial studies, African politics,...