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Jonas Malheiro Savimbi (1934-2002)
Jonas Malheiro Savimbi, Angolan insurgent fighter and longtime leader of The National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA),...
Thomas Mboya (Joseph Odhiambo) (1930-1969)
Tom Mboya, born on August 15, 1930 in Kilimambogo, Kenya on a sisal plantation estate, was a Kenyan nationalist, trade...
Muhammad Anwar al-Sadat (1918-1981)
Muhammad Anwar al-Sadat, third President of post-independence Egypt (governing from 1970 to 1981), was born of peasant background in the...
Celso Pitta (1946-2009)
Celso Roberto Pitta do Nascimento, São Paulo’s first black mayor, was born to a middle-class couple in Rio de Janeiro,...
Cairo, Egypt (founded ca. 969 C.E.)
Cairo, the current capital of Egypt and the largest city in the Middle East and Africa, has been a major...
Muammar Al-Qaddafi (1942-2011)
Muammar al-Qaddafi has been Libyan head of state since 1969 and one of the most controversial and divisive leaders in...
Warith Deen Mohammed (b. Wallace Delaney Muhammad) (1933-2008)
Wallace Delaney Muhammad was born on October 30, 1933 to Clara Evans and Elijah Poole in the impoverished Paradise Valley...
Algiers, Algeria (circa 9th century AD- )
Algiers, the capital city of Algeria, lies along the northwestern edge of a large bay in the Mediterranean Sea. The...
Casablanca, Morocco (circa 13th Century)
Casablanca (al-Dar al-Bayda in Arabic; “white house” in English) is Morocco’s center of cultural and commercial activity and one of...