A collection of Revolutionaries and Politician Biographies posts
Sobukwe Speaking to a Basotholand African Congress Party, Conference in Lesotho in 1957
Mr. Speaker, Sir, Sons and Daughters of the soil, I wish, in opening this conference,…
Browsing: Revolutionaries/Politicians Biographies
Dikobe Ben Martins
Source: https://www.sahistory.org.za “As politics must teach people the ways and give them the means to…
Baleka Mbete-Kgositsile
Source: https://www.sahistory.org.za Baleka Kgositsile was born on the 24 September 1949 in Claremont, Durban. She…
Naboth Monyandioe Moreleba Mokgatle
Naboth Monyandioe Moreleba Mokgatle was the eighth and youngest child of Setlhare Hebron Mokgatle, a…
Lauretta Ngcobo
Source: https://www.sahistory.org.za Lauretta* (1) Ngcobo was born and brought up in a rural area of…
Alfred Temba Qabula
Source: https://www.sahistory.org.za Alfred Temba Qabula was born on 12 December 1942 in Flagstaff, Bhalasi in…
Dr Mamphela Aletta Ramphele
Source: https://www.sahistory.org.za Mamphela Ramphele was born on 28 December 1947 in Bochum District, Northern Transvaal…
Remembering Cde Herbert Chitepo 43 years after his assassination
On March 18, 1975 Herbert Wiltshire Pfumaindini Chitepo, an African Nationalist and Chairman of the…
Bantu Steve Biko’s mini biography and he speaks on The Black Consciousness Movement
This is a rare interview which took place just before the assassination of Steve Bantu…
Pemulwuy
Pemulwuy was a courageous resistance fighter who led a guerrilla war against the British settlement…
10 Fearless Black Female Warriors Throughout History
Source: Atlantablackstar.com Queen Mother Yaa Asantewaa (c. 1840–October 17, 1921) Yaa Asantewaa was the queen…
25 Facts about Marcus Mosiah Garvey
Source: http://www.blackhistorystudies.com 1. Marcus Mosiah Garvey Jnr was born on 17 August 1887 in St…
The Life and Times of Chris Hani including an Interview with Afravision
Chris Hani tells us about the Wankie campaign, the first attempt at an armed incursion…
Mini biography of Mangaliso Robert Sobukwe
Remember Sobukwe! Footage on a great son of Africa, one that has been deliberately erased…
Martin Luther King Jr. Biography
Source: http://www.biography.com Civil Rights Activist, Minister (1929–1968) Martin Luther King Jr. was a Baptist minister…
7 Great African Military Leaders Who Repelled European and Arab Oppression
Source: http://atlantablackstar.com African military history is considered one of the oldest in the world. These…
A Hundred Years of Marcus Garvey
Source: Atlantablackstar.com For me and many others, Marcus Garvey qualifies as the greatest Black man…
12 Great African Women In History You Should Know
As a Black man and an African historian, I have found that one of the…
Thomas Sankara – Biography
Source: www.africasuccess.org Thomas Sankara – Born on December 21, 1949, in Upper Volta, formerly Burkina…
We Remember Mangaliso Robert Sobukwe (a brief history) of The Pan Africanist Congress of Azania
Source: www.pac.org “His life epitomised the cold, calculating, vindictive brutality of Apartheid; his mind and…