Africa – Guinea
Jeanne Martin Cissé (1926-2017)
Jeanne Martin Cissé was a Guinean teacher and nationalist politician. Cissé was born on April 6, 1926 to Darricau Martin...
Prince Abdul Rahman Ibrahima Sori (1762-1829)
Prince Abdul Rahman Ibrahima Sori was an African prince who was captured in 1788 and sold as an enslaved man...
M’Balia Camara (1929-1955)
Guinean national political independence martyr, women’s rights activist, and national heroine of the Democratic Party of Guinea, M’Balia Camara, was...
Andree Blouin (1921-1986)
Andree Madeleine Blouin, one of an emerging group of African activists and political leaders in the 1960s, was born in...
Joseph Antonio Emidy (a.k.a. Joseph Emedy and Joseph Emedee, 1775-1835)
Afro-British musician, composer, and orchestra leader Joseph Antonio Emidy is believed to have been born sometime in the year 1775...
Mamady Doumbouya (1980- )
On October 1, 2021, Mamady Doumbouya was sworn in as the interim president of Guinea. This was after the former...
Sarah Maldoror (1929-2020)
Négritude cinema director, activist, feminist Sarah Maldoror was born Sarah Ducados on July 19, 1929, in Condom, France, of emigrant...
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...
Diallo Telli (1925-1977)
Diallo Telli Boubacar was the first General Secretary of the Organization of the African Unity (OAU), the pan-African body created...
