Africa – Zambia
Joice Mujuru (1955- )
Joice Runaida Mujuru, also known as Teurai Ropa Nhongo, is a Zimbabwean revolutionary and politician who served as Vice President...
Hage Gottfried Geingob
(1941- )
Hage Gottfried Geingob, the third democratically elected president and the first prime minister of Namibia, was born on August 3,...
Hakainde Hichilema
(1962- )
The seventh and current president of Zambia, Hakainde Hichilema, was inaugurated on August 24, 2021. Hichilema was born on June...
Emmerson Mnangagwa (1942- )
Zimbabwe’s current President, Emmerson Mnangagwa, was born on September 15, 1942, in Zvishavane, Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe). His parents were...
Milton Obote (1925-2005)
Milton Apollo Obote was the first Prime Minister and second President of Uganda. Obote was born in the village of...
Oliver R. Tambo (1917-1993)
Anti-Apartheid activist Oliver Reginald Tambo was born on October 27, 1917, in Bizana, a Transkei village in Eastern Cape, South...
Frenise Avedis Logan, Sr. (1920-1995)
Diplomat, Historian, Poet, Frenise Avedis Logan, Sr. was born September 30, 1920, in Albany, Georgia but grew up in Cleveland,...
Killion Munzele Munyama (1961- )
The second person of African descent to be elected to the lower house of Poland’s Parliament (called Sejm) was Killion M. Munyama, born...
Third Congo Civil War (1998-2003)
The Third Congo Civil War—also known as Africa’s World War—was a five-year conflict that occurred primarily in the Democratic Republic...
