Africa – Ghana (Gold Coast)
Ama Ata Aidoo (1942- 2023)
Author, playwright, poet, academic, and feminist Ama Ata Aidoo, a towering figure in African Literature, was born Christina Ama Ata...
Angela Ankomaah Tabiri (1990- )
Angela Ankomaah Tabiri, a quantum algebra researcher, was born in 1990 in Accra, Ghana. She graduated from Anum Memorial School...
Nana Akufo-Addo (1944- )
The current president of Ghana, Nana Akufo-Addo was born on March 29, 1944, in Accra, Ghana (then the Gold Coast)....
Matshidiso Moeti (1954- )
Matshidiso Rebecca Natalie Moeti is a medical doctor, public health specialist, and medical administrator from Botswana who has served as...
North from Mexico: The First Black Settlers in the U.S. West
The first Black settlers in what is now the western United States were Spanish speakers who came north from what...
Nico & Vinz (2010- )
Rappers Nico & Vinz are a duo born Kahouly Nicolay “Nico” Sereba on December 1, 1990, from Holmlia, Oslo. He...
African Immigration to the United States (1965- )
The four century (1460-1860) transatlantic slave trade is responsible for the involuntary migration of 388,000 enslaved Africans to the United...
Tacky’s War (1760-1761)
Tacky’s War, also known as Tacky’s Rebellion, was an uprising among Jamaica Akan enslaved people from Ghana that occurred in...
James L. Conyers Jr. (1961-2021)
Author, philanthropist, scholar, mentor, and activist James L. Conyers Jr. was born James (Jim/ Naazir) L. Brown Jr. on June...
