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Rumpff, Frans Lourens Herman (Judge) was the Chief Justice of South Africa from 1974 to 1982.
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Maisels, Isie (QC) was the Judge President of Botswana, Lesotho, and Swaziland as well as a judge on the High Court of Rhodesia. He practiced law in South Africa from 1928 until his retirement in 1992 and was widely regarded as one of the nation's most formidable legal minds and preeminent among his generation of advocates.
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Bin Laden, Osama was a Saudi Arabian-born founder of the Pan-Islamic militant organization al-Qaeda.
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Stokes, Anson Phelps was a well-to-do American businessman, banker, real estate developer, genealogist, and philanthropist. He was the son of James Boulter and Caroline Stokes, both of New York City. One of the 13 founding members of the London Missionary Society and a London businessman, Thomas Stokes, was his paternal grandpa.
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Casely Hayford, JE was a well-known journalist, editor, author, lawyer, politician, and supporter of pan-African nationalism from the Fante Gold Coast. One of the first books written by an African author and published in English was his 1911 book Ethiopia Unbound.
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Woodson, Carter G was a journalist, historian, and founder of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History in the United States. He was among the earliest academics to research the history of the African diaspora, especially the history of African Americans.
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- 1864 - 1920
Weber, Max was considered as one of the most significant thinkers of the evolution of contemporary Western society. He was a German sociologist, historian, jurist, and political economist. His theories have a significant impact on social theory and research.
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- 1822 - 1893
Hayes, Rutherford B was a lawyer and politician from the United States who presided over the country as its 19th president from 1877 to 1881 after serving as the governor of Ohio and a member of the U.S. House of Representatives.
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Giamatti, Bartlett was the sixth Commissioner of Major League Baseball, the president of Yale University, and an American professor of English Renaissance literature. Only five months into his tenure as commissioner, Giamatti passed away abruptly from a heart attack.
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Armah, Ayi Kwei is a Ghanaian author best known for writing The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born, Two Thousand Seasons, and The Healers, among other books. Along with poems, short stories, and children's books, he also writes essays.
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- 22 May 1874 - 7 February 1959
Malan, Daniel Francois (DF) was a South African politician who presided as the country's fourth prime minister between 1948 and 1954. During his time as prime minister, the National Party put into effect the apartheid regime, which enforced racial segregation laws.
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O'Brien, Conor Cruise was a diplomat, politician, historian, author, and professor from Ireland who held the position of Minister for Posts and Telegraphs from 1973 to 1977.
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Radford, Betty was an editor of the Guardian newspaper, she was elected to the Cape Town City Council in 1943.
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Parker, Aida was one of South Africa's best-known political and investigative journalists.
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Nardella, Dario is an Italian politician who has served as Florence's mayor since May 26, 2014, and the city's first metropolitan mayor since January 1, 2015.
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Diop, Cheikh Anta was a Senegalese politician, physicist, historian, and anthropologist who focused on pre-colonial African culture and the history of the human race.
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O'Dowd, AP is a professional first class rugby coach and former New Zealand first class cricketer.
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Stone, Sly is an American musician, composer, and record producer best known for performing the lead vocals for Sly and the Family Stone. During the 1960s and 1970s, he created a groundbreaking mix of soul, rock, psychedelia, and gospel music that had a major impact on the creation of funk.
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Major, John is a retired British politician who represented Huntingdon, formerly Huntingdonshire, in the British Parliament from 1979 to 2001. He served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and Leader of the Conservative Party from 1990 to 1997.
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Koornhof, Pieter (Piet) GJ was a politician from South Africa. He served as a National Party cabinet minister during apartheid, holding several positions in the administrations of B.J. Vorster and P.W. Botha before being named ambassador to the US. He joined the African National Congress in 2001 after apartheid was abolished.
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Schwartz, Harry was an editorial writer for The New York Times from 1951 to 1979 and a specialist in Soviet and East European affairs.
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Blackburn, Molly was a politician, civil rights activist, and anti-apartheid crusader from South Africa who was well-liked by both blacks and whites.
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Brooks, Gushwell is the current Nelson Mandela Foundation Head of Mandela Day and Public Outreach.
Ntsangani, Milner Bonakele Fred
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- 1889 - 1979
Phillip, Randolph A was a civil rights and labor activist in the United States. He founded and oversaw the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters in 1925, the first productive labor union with an African American leader. Randolph was a well-known figure in the early Labor Movement and Civil Rights Movement.
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Rooseveld, Theodore Jr was the 26th president of the United States from 1901 to 1909. He was an American politician, statesman, soldier, conservationist, naturalist, historian, and writer.
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Malan, Wynand is a liberal politician from South Africa who is Afrikaner. Malan, a lawyer, entered politics in the 1977 South African elections when he won the Randburg seat for the National Party in the country's all-white parliament. He was critical of P.W. and belonged to the reform wing of the NP.
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de Wet, Christiaan was a politician, rebel leader, and Boer general. born on the Leeuwkop farm in the Boer Republic of the Orange Free State's Smithfield neighborhood.
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Van Rensburg was the Robben Island warder when Nelson Mandela while serving a prison sentence.
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Ndungane, Winston Njongonkulu is a retired South African Anglican bishop and a former prisoner on Robben Island. He was the Bishop of Kimberley and Kuruman and Archbishop of Cape Town.
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Qoboza, Percy was an influential black South African journalist, author, and outspoken critic of the apartheid government in South Africa during the early periods of world recognition of the problems evident in the racially divided land.
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Swart, Ray was a white liberal South African politician who spent his life in opposition to the apartheid policies of the government. He was educated in Durban at Glenwood High School and the University of Natal, where he graduated as a lawyer.
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Tshunungwa, Thembekile Enoch ka
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Tshunungwa, Thembekile Enoch ka was business person, teacher, National organiser for the ANC and 1956 Treason trialist
Yengwa, Masabalala Bonnie 'MB'
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- 05 December 1923 - 21 July 1987
Yengwa, Masabalala Bonnie 'MB' was the Natal Provincial Secretary of the ANC Youth League, lawyer, 1956 Treason trialist, Director of the Luthuli Memorial Foundation.
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de Wet Nel, Michel Daniel Christiaan
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Van den Bergh, Henrik Johan (General)
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Van den Bergh, Henrik Johan (General) was a South African police official most famous for founding the Bureau of State Security.
Ludorf, Joseph Francis (Judge)
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Higginbotham, Evelyn is a professor of Afro-American Studies, African American Religion and the Victor S. Thomas Professor of History and African American Studies at Harvard University.
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Mzamane, Godfrey IM was a novelist, literary historian, academic and intellectual pioneer of African studies in South Africa.
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Macmillan, Harold was a British Conservative statesman and politician who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1957 to 1963.
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Joubert, Dereck is an award-winning filmmaker, National Geographic Explorer at Large and wildlife conservationists, who has been filming, researching and exploring in Africa for over 30 years.
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Queen Nefertiti was a queen of Egypt and wife of King Akhenaton, who played a prominent role in changing Egypt's traditional polytheistic religion to one that was monotheistic, worshipping the sun god known as Aton.
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McCartney, Jason, MP is a British Conservative Party politician who has been the member of Parliament for Colne Valley in West Yorkshire since 2019, and from 2010 to 2017. He is a former TV sports reporter.
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Xavier Trias i Vidal de Llobatera is a Spanish politician, member of the Catalan European Democratic Party and was Mayor of Barcelona from July 2011 to June 2015. Among other responsibilities to the Government of Catalonia, he was Minister of Health and Director of the Presidency for various Jordi Pujol Governments.
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Thomas, Cal is an American syndicated columnist, author and radio commentator.
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Hutt, WH was an English economist who described himself as a classical economist.
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- 1855-1942
Rose-Innes, James (Sir) was the Chief Justice of South Africa from 1914 to 1927 and, in the view of many, its greatest ever judge. Before becoming a judge he was a member of the Cape Parliament, the Cape Colony's Attorney-General, and a prominent critic of Cecil John Rhodes.
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Havenga, NC was a South African politician who served as Finance Minister in the governments of J. B. M. Hertzog and Daniel François Malan.
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- 1989-1991
Interviews of people involved in the struggle against Apartheid and their interaction with the then Apartheid government president FW De Klerk .
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Maria José Rodrigues Ferreira Diogo
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de Sousa, Bornito is an Angolan politician who was the vice president of Angola, from 2017 to 2022. He was the vice presidential candidate for the MPLA in the 2017 Angolan general election, running alongside João Lourenço and a member of the Constituent Assembly since 2010.
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Mensah, Samuel is the founder and CEO of KISUA.com. A new digital platform offering exclusive contemporary African fashion online to global consumers.
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Tajani, Antonio is an Italian politician, journalist and former Italian Air Force officer, who has served as Deputy Prime Minister of Italy and Minister of Foreign Affairs.
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Maas, Heiko is a German politician of the Social Democratic Party who served as the Federal Minister of Foreign Affairs in the fourth cabinet of Angela Merkel.
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Falola, Toyin is a Nigerian historian and professor of African Studies. He is a Fellow of the Historical Society of Nigeria and of the Nigerian Academy of Letters, and has served as the president of the African Studies Association.
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Labuschagne, Lorato is an advocate and a public servant with the National Prosecuting Authority. She is passionate about human rights and reckoning with oppressive pasts.
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Bettencourt, Nuno is a Portuguese-American guitarist, singer-songwriter, record producer, and businessman. He became known as the lead guitarist of the Boston rock band Extreme.
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Jean, Wyclef is a Haitian rapper, musician, and actor. At the age of nine, Jean immigrated to the United States with his family. He first achieved fame as a member of the New Jersey hip hop group the Fugees, alongside Lauryn Hill and Pras Michel.
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Jimmy P is an English musician who achieved international success as the guitarist and founder of the rock band Led Zeppelin.
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Veloso, Rui is a Portuguese singer-songwriter and musician. Commonly called "The father of Portuguese rock". He was a major figure in the boom of Portuguese rock music in the 1980s.
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Tyler, Steven is an American singer, best known as the lead singer of the Boston-based rock band Aerosmith, in which he also plays the harmonica, piano, and percussion. He is known as the "Demon of Screamin'" due to his high screams and his powerful wide vocal range.
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Salgueiro, Luísa is a Portuguese politician and legal consultant. Between 2005 and 2017, she was a Deputy in the Assembly of the Republic, representing the Portuguese Socialist Party in the Porto constituency.
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Burnley, A.Q Lawrence is Vice President for Diversity and Inclusion at the University of Dayton.
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Mazloomi, Carolyn is an American curator, quilter, author, art historian, and aerospace engineer. She is a strong advocate for presenting and documenting African-American-made quilts.
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Ludlow, Helen was head of History at the School of Education, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg until the end of 2016 lecturing in academic history and methodology.
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Sizani, Phumelele Stone is a South African politician who was, until his resignation on 2 March 2016, a Member of the National Assembly of South Africa and the African National Congress Chief Whip.
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