Africa – Ghana (Gold Coast)
James Townsend (1737-1787)
James Townsend was an English Whig politician who served as Lord Mayor of London from 1772 to 1773. He also...
The Trans-Saharan Salt and Gold Trade (500 BCE-1800 AD)
The Trans-Saharan Salt and Gold Trade was the major economic and cultural exchange between North Africa and West Africa, beginning...
Ama Ata Aidoo (1942- 2023)
Author, playwright, poet, academic, and feminist Ama Ata Aidoo, a towering figure in African Literature, was born Christina Ama Ata...
Angela Ankomaah Tabiri (1990- )
Angela Ankomaah Tabiri, a quantum algebra researcher, was born in 1990 in Accra, Ghana. She graduated from Anum Memorial School...
Nana Akufo-Addo (1944- )
The current president of Ghana, Nana Akufo-Addo was born on March 29, 1944, in Accra, Ghana (then the Gold Coast)....
Matshidiso Moeti (1954- )
Matshidiso Rebecca Natalie Moeti is a medical doctor, public health specialist, and medical administrator from Botswana who has served as...
North from Mexico: The First Black Settlers in the U.S. West
The first Black settlers in what is now the western United States were Spanish speakers who came north from what...
Nico & Vinz (2010- )
Rappers Nico & Vinz are a duo born Kahouly Nicolay “Nico” Sereba on December 1, 1990, from Holmlia, Oslo. He...
African Immigration to the United States (1965- )
The four century (1460-1860) transatlantic slave trade is responsible for the involuntary migration of 388,000 enslaved Africans to the United...
