Bartolomeu Dias
Portuguese nobleman who sailed around the Cape of Good Hope, the southern tip of Africa, in 1488, the first European known to do so since ancient times.
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Alec Dickson
Community educationist. Born Alexander Graeme Dickson at Duxhill Lodge, Ruislip. He served in Africa in World War II, where he began to formulate his ideas for mass education. He returned in 1948 a...
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Lieutenant Nicholas James Redvers John Townshend Durham
Nicholas James Redvers John Townshend Durham was born on 13 January 1905 the son of James Andrew Cunningham Durham FSA (1879-1954) and Lady Agnes Elizabeth Audrey Durham née Townshend (1870-1955). ...
War dead, WW2
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Olaudah Equiano
Born in an African village, he was sold into slavery, first locally, then in England, then in America where he managed to buy his freedom. He returned to England and wrote the first autobiography o...
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Mo Farah
Track and field athelete. Born Somalia. Moved to Britain aged 8 to join his father in Hounslow.
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Finlays
From Finlays we learn that: James Finlay (d. 1790) began his career in Glasgow in the family textile business selling cotton goods. He moved into embroidered muslins and also manufacture. His son K...
Group, Commerce, Food & Drink, Gardens / Agriculture, Africa, Ceylon, Scotland
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Ruth First
South African freedom fighter. Born Johannesburg. Married Slovo in 1949. Killed by a parcel bomb addressed to her in Mozambique where she was living in exile.
Person, Journalism / Publishing, Nationalism, Race Issues, Africa, South Africa
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Sir Francis Galton
Biostatistician, human geneticist and eugenicist. Born at The Larches, Sparkbrook, Birmingham, a half-cousin of Charles Darwin. An enthusiastic traveller, particularly in Africa. Darwin's publicati...
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Ghana High Commission
Ghana is in West Africa. Colonised and gained independence in 1957, the first West African colony to do so.
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