Africa – Mauritania
Mohamed Ould Ghazouani
(1956- )
Mohamed Ould Ghazouani, President of the Islamic Republic of Mauritania, was born Mohamed Ould Cheikh Mohamed Ahmed Ould Ghazouani on...
El-Ouali Mustafa Sayed (1948-1976)
El-Ouali Mustafa Sayed was the first president of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (formerly known as Spanish Sahara or Western...
Moktar Ould Daddah (1924-2003)
Moktar Ould Daddah was the first president of independent Mauritania. He was born on December 25, 1924, at Boutilimit, Mauritania,...
Sundiata Keita (1210?-1255?)
Sundiata (Sunjata) Keita was a West African political leader who would become the founder and first ruler of the Mali Empire in medieval West Africa....
Yahya Abdul-Aziz Jemus Junking Jammeh (1965- )
Image Ownership: Public Domain Yahya Jammeh is a Gambian politician and former military officer who was the second president of...
The Almoravids/al-Murabitun (1040–1147)
The Almoravids, or al-Murabitun as they called themselves, were an Islamic Berber dynasty that established an empire in Morocco and...
Krystian Legierski (1978– )
Krystian Legierski, an LGBT activist, politician, lawyer, and entrepreneur, is the first openly gay person elected to public office in...
America’s Black Ambassadors: A Historical Snapshot
In the article below, Carlton McLellan, PhD, a senior fellow at the Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training (ADST), briefly...
Nouakchott, Mauritania (1659- )
Nouakchott, meaning “place of the winds” in the Hassaniya language, became the capital of Mauritania in 1960. In 2006 it...
