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Helon Habila Ngalabak (born November 1967) is a Nigerian novelist and poet whose work has earned numerous awards, including the...

Alain Mabanckou is a Congolese-born writer and professor who has won several literary prizes. He has published six novels and...

Amos Tutuola (20 June 1920 – 8 June 1997) was a Nigerian writer famous for his books based in part...

Back in 2018, Corneille Nangaa organised the controversial vote that gave power to the Democratic Republic of Congo's current president...

George Kofi Nyidevu Awoonor-Williams was born on March 13, 1935, in Wheta, in the Volta region of what was then...

Cheikh Anta Diop, a Senegalese writer, historian, and politician who studied the origins of the human race and the pre-colonial...

Ghana has turned a new page in its democratic journey by electing Professor Naana Jane Opoku-Agyemang as the nation’s first...

Félix Houphouët-Boigny is thought to have been born on 18 Oct. 1905 in the town of Yamoussoukro. The son of...

Mahamudu Bawumia soared from being a political outsider to become Ghana's second-in-command - and in December he could make history...

Desmond Tutu, South Africa’s Nobel Peace Prize-winning activist for racial justice and retired Anglican archbishop of Cape Town. Archbishop Desmond...