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Moses Josiah Madiba

Consciousness Admin — Mon, 15 Jul 2019 13:15:20 +0000

Source: https://www.sahistory.org.za Moses Josiah Madiba was born 22 November 1909 in Seshego, Pietersburg District. He was one of the seven children of Jesaya Sekgoadi and Johanna Sebolaishi. Although Ndebele-speaking, Madiba preferred Northern Sotho as a communication medium. He received his primary education in the Pietersburg district at Ga-Madiba, Mashashane Lutheran School and Setotolwane. From 1926 [...]

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Dr. Es’kia Mphahlele

Consciousness Admin — Tue, 02 Jul 2019 13:01:29 +0000

Source: https://www.sahistory.org.za Extract from media statement on the passing of Dr. Es’kia Mphahlele (1919 – 2008): By Minister of culture & society, Dr Z. Pallo Jordan Es’kia [Ezekiel] Mphahlele, doyen of African letters, passed away in Lebowakgomo, Limpopo, on the evening of 27th October, 2008 at the ripe age of eighty-eight. Mphahlele was the illustrious author [...]

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Selbourne Charlton Sobizwa “Selby” Mvusi

Consciousness Admin — Tue, 02 Jul 2019 12:29:26 +0000

Source: https://www.sahistory.org.za Selbourne Charlton Sobizwa Mvusi (known as Selby) was born in Richmond, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal) on 18 June 1929, to Vunina (born Nxasana) and Jotham Mvusi, second generation Christian converts and prosperous farmers. Selby’s father was a graduate of the prestigious Fort Hare University and graduated in 1935 with a Theological degree. His grandfather [...]

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Ndazana Nathaniel Nakasa

Consciousness Admin — Tue, 02 Jul 2019 12:24:34 +0000

Source: https://www.sahistory.org.za Ndazana Nathaniel (Nat) Nakasa was born on 12 May 1937 in Lusikisiki, Eastern Cape. Nakasa was the second of three children of Joseph Nakasa and his wife, Alvina Nakasa. As a child from a working-class family in an impoverished rural area, Nakasa was forced by poverty to leave school in 1954 without matriculating. [...]

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Njabulo Simakahle Ndebele

Consciousness Admin — Tue, 02 Jul 2019 11:56:26 +0000

Source: https://www.sahistory.org.za Njabulo Simakahle Ndebele was born on 4 July 1948 in Johannesburg to Nimrod Njabulo Ndebele and Makhosazana Regina Tshabangu. Ndebele completed his matric at St Christopher’s High School in Luyengo, Swaziland in 1966. In 1971 Ndebele married Mpho Kathleen Malebo. They have one son and two daughters. Ndebele began studying at the Roma [...]

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Lewis Nkosi

Consciousness Admin — Tue, 02 Jul 2019 11:47:41 +0000

Lewis Nkosi was born in Chesterville, Durban, Kwa-Zulu Natal and was educated at local schools before enrolling at M. L. Sultan Technical College in Durban. Nkosi began his writing career at the publication Ilanga lase Natal in Durban. In 1956, he joined other African writers on the staff of Drum magazine, which was founded in 1951. In his book Home [...]

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Dr Mamphela Aletta Ramphele

Consciousness Admin — Tue, 02 Jul 2019 11:22:51 +0000

Source: https://www.sahistory.org.za Mamphela Ramphele was born on 28 December 1947 in Bochum District, Northern Transvaal (now Limpopo). Her mother, Rangoato Rahab, and her father, Pitsi Eliphaz Ramphele were primary school teachers. In 1944, her father was promoted as headmaster of Stephanus Hofmeyr School. Ramphele contracted severe whooping cough at the age of three months. The [...]

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Kenule Beeson Saro-Wiwa

Consciousness Admin — Tue, 02 Jul 2019 10:50:15 +0000

Ken Saro-Wiwa was a prominent Nigerian author, activist and television producer. He garnered attention by leading a nonviolent campaign against the multinational petroleum industry. That industry recklessly dumped petroleum waste in Saro-Wiwa’s home region, the Nigerian delta, which gave rise to severe environmental damage. Saro-Wiwa was born on 10 October 1941 into a prominent Ogoni [...]

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9 Scientists and Inventors From Africa the World Should Know More About

Consciousness Admin — Sun, 29 Mar 2015 17:28:12 +0000

Source: Alantablackstar.com Cheick Modibo Diarra Diarra is a Malian-born aerospace engineer who contributed to several NASA missions such as Mars Path Finder, the Galileo spacecraft and the Mars Observer. From April 2012 to December 2012, Diarra was the prime minister of Mali until a military coup forced him to resign Cheikh Anta Diop Diop was a [...]

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The Virginia Calculator: Thomas Fuller, African ”Slave” And Mathematical Genius

Consciousness Admin — Sun, 15 Mar 2015 14:38:48 +0000

Source: Yourblackworld.net/ Thomas Fuller, familiarly known as the Virginia Calculator, was a native of Africa. At the age of fourteen he was stolen, and sold into slavery in Virginia, where he found himself the property of a planter residing about four miles from Alexandria. He did not understand the art of reading or writing, but [...]

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