by divimachine | Nov 5, 2023 | Global African History, People
Bibi Titi Mohammed was a Tanzanian politician and activist. She was born in June 1926 in Dar es Salaam, then the capital of the British colony of Tanganyika. Mohammed was a member of the Tanganyika African National Union (TANU), the party that fought for Tanzanian...
by FikesRobert | Jan 5, 2023 | Global African History, People
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Prudencia Ayala was a writer, social activist, and campaigner for women’s rights in El Salvador, she was the first woman to run for President in El Salvador. Prudencia Ayala was born on April 28, 1885, to Aurelia Ayala and...
by | Mar 30, 2022 | Global African History, People
Nwanyereuwa was an Igbo woman from southeastern Nigeria who became famous because of her leadership in the Aba Women’s War in 1929. Nwanyereuwa’s exact birth and death dates, as well as her exact place of birth are unknown. However, by 1929, she had become an...
by David H. Jackson Jr. | Mar 5, 2022 | Global African History, People
Négritude cinema director, activist, feminist Sarah Maldoror was born Sarah Ducados on July 19, 1929, in Condom, France, of emigrant parents from the Francophone Caribbean Island of Guadeloupe. She later selected her name after the hero of the Comte de Lautréamont’s...
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by SalterDaren | Jul 18, 2021 | Children's Page
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]This entry is for juvenile audiences. To see the full version of this entry, click here.[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]What happened (Who are they): Sojourner Truth was the most prominent African American woman to participate in...
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