The British-born author and religious educator was born Bridget Anne Honey in Poole, Dorset, United Kingdom. She attended Uplands School, Parkstone, Dorset between 1950 and 1955 and proceeded for a year…
Wuraola Adepeju Esan was born in 1909 in Calabar to the famous Ojo’badan family. Her father Chief Thomas Adeogun Ojo was a veteran of the First World War and a…
'THE LIONESS OF LISABI' Born Frances Abigail Olufunmilayo Thomas, Funmilayo Anikulapo-Kuti was born and raised in Lagos State Nigeria. She was a feminist and political leader who was the leading…
I kept my culture. I kept the music of my roots. Through my music, I became the voice and image of Africa and the people without even realizing. Mama Africa,…
Harriet Tubman (Araminta Ross), was an American abolitionist. Born into slavery in Dorchester County, Maryland in 1820, Tubman was beaten and whipped by her various masters as a child. Early…
Fassie was born in Langa, Cape Town, as the youngest of nine children. She was named after the American singer Brenda Lee. She was a South African anti-apartheid Afropop singer.…
A versatile journalist, columnist, journalism ombudsman and later civil society activist, Hajiya Bilkisu mentored a lot of journalists for about three decades. Bilkisu was born in Kano, December 2, 1952…
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