Surgeon-Major James Africanus Beale Horton (c. 1835 – c. 1883) was a British Army officer, surgeon, writer and banker. Born in Gloucester, Sierra Leone into a Creole family who were liberated from enslavement by the Royal Navy, he began attending the SLGS in 1845. After graduating from Fourah Bay College, Horton received a War Office scholarship study medicine in Britain to prepare him for a career in the British Armed Forces, and he attended King's College London and the University of Edinburgh. Serving in the West India Regiments, Horton was posted to various locations within the British Empire, including Lagos, the Gambia, Sierra Leone and the Gold Coast and participated in the Anglo-Ashanti wars.
Horton wrote extensively on the medicine and botany of West Africa, and espoused African nationalism and pan-Africanism in opposition to racism by European writers. In his works, including The Political Economy of British West Africa (1865) and West African Countries and Peoples (1868), he defended Africans against racist arguments and espoused self-governance for Britain's African colonies. After retiring from the army at the age of 45, Horton went to Freetown where he continued to campaign on political issues and opened a bank. His business activities and gold mining investments made him one of the wealthiest men in Africa by 1880, and Horton died three years later. A crater on Mercury is named in his honour.
Surgeon-Major James Africanus Beale Horton (c. 1835 – c. 1883) was a British Army officer, surgeon, writer and banker. Born in Gloucester, Sierra Leone...
Look up africanus in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Africanus is Latin for "African". It may refer to: Africanus Fabius Maximus, the younger son of Quintus...
Rembrandt Basin Skinakas (hypothetical basin) Craters Abedin Abu Nuwas AfricanusHorton Ahmad Baba Ailey Aksakov Akutagawa Al-Akhtal Alencar Al-Hamadhani Al-Jāhiz...
(1917–2006), Australian politician James Beale (1835–1883), also known as AfricanusHorton, Sierra Leonean writer and folklorist James Thomas Beale (born 1947)...
journalist and politician. He was among a number of medical doctors such as AfricanusHorton, Orisadipe Obasa and John K. Randle who combined medical practice and...
by the Igbo community in Freetown, Sierra Leone by 1860, of which AfricanusHorton, a surgeon, scientist and soldier, was an active member. Decades after...
Rembrandt Basin Skinakas (hypothetical basin) Craters Abedin Abu Nuwas AfricanusHorton Ahmad Baba Ailey Aksakov Akutagawa Al-Akhtal Alencar Al-Hamadhani Al-Jāhiz...
explore the course of the Lower Niger and meet the Northern Igbo. 1835 AfricanusHorton is born to Igbo ex-slaves in Sierra Leone 1855 William Balfour Baikie...
Rembrandt Basin Skinakas (hypothetical basin) Craters Abedin Abu Nuwas AfricanusHorton Ahmad Baba Ailey Aksakov Akutagawa Al-Akhtal Alencar Al-Hamadhani Al-Jāhiz...
Rembrandt Basin Skinakas (hypothetical basin) Craters Abedin Abu Nuwas AfricanusHorton Ahmad Baba Ailey Aksakov Akutagawa Al-Akhtal Alencar Al-Hamadhani Al-Jāhiz...
Rembrandt Basin Skinakas (hypothetical basin) Craters Abedin Abu Nuwas AfricanusHorton Ahmad Baba Ailey Aksakov Akutagawa Al-Akhtal Alencar Al-Hamadhani Al-Jāhiz...
ISBN 9780903274173. Nwauwa, Apollos (1999). "Far Ahead of his Time: James AfricanusHorton's Initiatives for a West African University and his Frustration". Cahiers...
Rembrandt Basin Skinakas (hypothetical basin) Craters Abedin Abu Nuwas AfricanusHorton Ahmad Baba Ailey Aksakov Akutagawa Al-Akhtal Alencar Al-Hamadhani Al-Jāhiz...
Rembrandt Basin Skinakas (hypothetical basin) Craters Abedin Abu Nuwas AfricanusHorton Ahmad Baba Ailey Aksakov Akutagawa Al-Akhtal Alencar Al-Hamadhani Al-Jāhiz...
Rembrandt Basin Skinakas (hypothetical basin) Craters Abedin Abu Nuwas AfricanusHorton Ahmad Baba Ailey Aksakov Akutagawa Al-Akhtal Alencar Al-Hamadhani Al-Jāhiz...
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