African
Features
- African Children's Choir
- Agbabi, Patience
- Akabusi, Kriss
- Amo, Anton Wilhelm
- Angelou, Maya
- Armstrong, Louis Daniel
- Baker, Josephine
- Bates, Daisy
- Baulch, Jamie
- Beley, Ennis
- Black, Pauline
- Bokassa I
- Bolívar, Simón
- Bonaly, Surya
- Braimoh, Dilly
- Brooks-Randolph, Angie
- Brown, James
- Brown, Leslie Calvin
- Bustamante, William Alexander
- Caines, Michael
- Capitein, Jacobus
- Carver, George Washington
- Clitus Niger
- Cole, Carol
- Cole, Nat Kelly
- Cross, June
- Cugoano, Ottobah
- Cullen, Countée
- Culpepper, Daunte
- Davidson, Tommy
- de Porres, Martin
- Diamond, Jeff
- Dickerson, Eric Demetric
- Diddley, Bo
- Divine, David
- Dodson, Adrian
- Douglass, Frederick
- Edwards, Skye
- Elder, Lonne III
- Emerick, Louis
- Equiano, Olaudah
- Fashanu, John
- Fashanu, Justinius Sonny
- Fish, Laura
- Fisher, Antwone
- Fitzgerald, Ella
- Frampton, Phil
- God's Wife
- Goldie
- Gorham, Clare
- Hannibal, Abram Petrovich
- Hansen, Ashia
- Haynes, Lemuel
- Head, Bessie
- Henson, Matthew Alexander
- Hughes, Langston
- Hurston, Zora Neale
- Ice-T
- Jackson, Jesse
- James, Lennie
- Johnson, Nkosi
- Jones, Frederick McKinley
- Kay, Jackie
- Langston, John Mercer
- Lewis, Edmonia
- Little Richard
- Long Lance, Buffalo Child
- Mandela, Nelson Rolihlahla
- March, Naomi (Nimmy)
- Mbeki, Thabo Mvuyelwa
- McMillon, Doris E.
- Mourning, Alonzo
- Murphy, Edward Regan
- Myers, Billie
- Nguyen, Martine (see under Bokassa I)
- O'Brien, Daniel Dion
- Oldfield, Bruce
- Pascale, Lorraine
- Perry, Mae Walker (under Walker, C.J.)
- Riles, Wilson C.
- Robinson, Bill
- Rowell, Victoria
- Salter, Shane
- Sancho, Ignatius
- Sanderson, Teresa Ione
- Scipio Africanus Minor (under Roman Empire)
- Scott, George
- Scott, Todd M.
- Seal
- Shabazz, Betty Jean Sanders
- Sherrin, Scott
- Sissay, Lemn
- Slaves
- Smith, Venture
- Stokes, Richard
- Sudbury, Julia
- Traynor, Joanna
- Tyson, Mike G.
- Walker, C.J.
- Wheatley, Phillis
- Wheeler, Caron
- Whitbread, Fatima
- White, Eartha Mary Magdalene
- Wiles, Terry
- Williams, Anthony A.
- Williams, Daniel Hale
- Wilson, Flip
- Winfrey, Oprah
- Wolde, Degaga
- Wright, Richard Nathaniel
- X, Malcolm
- Ystumllyn, John
African Children's Choir
This choir of children aged five to 12 years was founded in 1984 by Raymond R. Barnett, himself an Irish-Canadian orphan and ordained minister, who first went to Uganda in 1982. It was begu... [more]
Agbabi, Patience
Agbabi was born in London to Nigerian parents but fostered from birth by a white family, while maintaining frequent contact with her birth family. She was brought up in Sussex and North Wal... [more]
Akabusi, Kriss
Akabusi was born an Igbo prince in Nigeria, but taken to England as a child, where he went into care when his mother returned to Nigeria. He spent time in a children's home and also had mul... [more]
Amo, Anton Wilhelm
Amo was born on the Gold Coast (Ghana) about 1703 and taken to Amsterdam when he was about four. He was given to the Duke of Wolfenbüttel and baptised Anton Wilhelm. He was educated with su... [more]
Angelou, Maya
Angelou was born Marguerite Johnson in California. Her parents divorced when she was a young child and she and her brother were sent by their father to live with his mother i... [more]
Armstrong, Louis Daniel
Armstrong's parents separated about the time he was born and he was raised in great poverty, first by his grandmother and then by his mother, with his sister. His education ended in the fif... [more]
Baker, Josephine
Baker (the surname of her second husband) was born Josephine Carson to an unmarried couple in the slums of St. Louis, Missouri. Her father abandoned the family before she was a year old, an... [more]
Bates, Daisy
Bates' mother was murdered by white racists when she was a baby. Her father left to look for her and never returned, so she was adopted by his best friend. She was the prime mover in the fam... [more]
Baulch, Jamie
Baulch was adopted at six months of age by a white family from a South Wales valley village. He was not an academic child at school but loved athletics, so his parents took him to the Newpo... [more]
Beley, Ennis
Beley was born the fourth child of an unmarried drug addict, Patricia Smith, in Los Angeles. From a few days old he was fostered by a 60-year-old single man, Howard Glen, who raised him as ... [more]
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