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George Junius Stinney Jr. (born October 21, 1929, died June 16, 1944) was, at age 14, the youngest person executed in...

Moshood Adisa Olabisi Ajala, popularly known in Nigeria and across the globe as ‘Ajala the traveller‘, was the man who...

The woman who we know as Elizabeth Bathory was born on August 7th, 1560 in Nyirbator in the Kingdom of...

Sarah ‘Saartjie’ Baartman was born in 1789 at the Gamtoos river in what is now known as the Eastern Cape. She belonged to...

Amina of Zaria (1533-1610), commonly known as the warrior queen, expanded the territory of the Hausa people of north Africa...

Ota Benga was a Congolese Mbuti pygmy, best known for being featured in an exhibit in the Bronx Zoo in...

Marcus Mosiah Garvey Jr. ONH was a Jamaican political activist, publisher, journalist, entrepreneur, and orator. He was the founder and first President-General...

  The Queen of Sheba is the monarch mentioned in the Bibleand then in later works who travels to Jerusalem to experience the wisdom of...

There are 54 countries and one “non-self governing territory”, the Western Sahara, in Africa. African continent is the world’s oldest...

Muhammad Anwar el-Sadat was born into a family of 13 children on December 25, 1918, in Mit Ab al-Kawm, about...