Africa – Cape Verde
Isaura Tavares Gomes (1944- )
Cape Verde independence activist, women’s rights activist, and pharmacist Isaura Tavares Gomes was born on February 22, 1944, in Santiago,...
José Maria Neves (1960- )
José Maria Pereira Neves is a Cape Verdean politician who is currently President of Cape Verde, having previously served as...
Aristides Pereira (1923-2011)
Aristides Maria Pereira, the son of Porfirio Pereira Tavares and Maria das Neves Crus Silva, was the first President of...
Luis Cabral (1931-2009)
The first president of independent Guinea Bissau was Luis Severino de Almeida Cabral who was born on April 10, 1933,...
Sarah Maldoror (1929-2020)
Négritude cinema director, activist, feminist Sarah Maldoror was born Sarah Ducados on July 19, 1929, in Condom, France, of emigrant...
Tavares (1969-1976)
Tavares, a band of brothers, was a rhythm and blues and funk and soul group. They have also been known...
Okeechobee Hurricane of 1928
On September 16, 1928, the Okeechobee Hurricane or Hurricane San Felipe Segundo, one of the most devastating tropical cyclones in...
Emanuel Lopes (1812-1895)
Emanuel, or Manuel, Lopes was Seattle, Washington’s first black resident. He came to Washington Territory and this small frontier town...
Pierrette Herzberger-Fofana (1949- )
Afro-German politician, human rights activist, and scholar Pierrette Herzberger-Fofana was born in Bamako, Mali, but grew up in Dakar, Senegal, the daughter of a Cape Verdean mother, Dona...
