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Name
Occupation
Birth date
Death date
Image
Chinua Achebe
Poet and professor
1930-11-16
2013-03-31
J. F. Ade Ajayi
Historian
1929-05-26
2014-08-09
Abdulrahman Mohamed Babu
Marxist and minister
1924
1996-08-05
Erdmute Alber
German ethnologist, chair in Social Anthropology, University of Bayreuth since 2010
1963-07-14
François Bassolet
Journalist and historian
1933
2001-07-02
Thomas Bierschenk
German ethnologist and sociologist, Prof.em.Dr., University of Mainz
1951-07-18
Helmut Bley
German historian, Prof.em.Dr, Leibniz University Hannover
1935-02-26
Albert Adu Boahen
Academic, politician and historian
1932-05-24
2006-05-24
Amílcar Cabral
Revolutionary
1924-09-12
1973-01-20
Gwendolen M. Carter
Political scientist
1906
1991-02-20
Patrick Chabal
Africanist
1951-04-29
2014-01-16
J. Desmond Clark
British archaeologist
1916-04-10
2002-02-14
John Henrik Clarke
Historian
1915-01-01
1998-07-12
Basil Davidson
Historian
1914-11-09
2010-07-09
Kenneth Dike
Historian
1917-12-17
1983-10-26
Cheikh Anta Diop
Historian
1923-12-29
1986-02-07
Stephen Ellis
Historian
1953-06-13
2015-07-29
Georg Elwert
German sociologist and anthropologist
1947-06-01
2005-03-31
Orishatukeh Faduma
Missionary and educator
1855-09-15
1946-02-25
John Fage
Historian
1921-06-03
2002-08-06
Frantz Fanon
Psychiatrist and political philosopher
1925-07-20
1961-12-06
Joseph Greenberg
Linguist
1915-05-28
2001-05-07
Marcel Griaule
Author and anthropologist
1898-05-16
1956-02-23
Gerhard Grohs
German sociologist and Africanist
1929-06-24
2015-02-18
Anatoly Gromyko
Soviet scientist and diplomat
1932-04-15
2017-09-25
William Leo Hansberry
Scholar and lecturer
1894-02-25
1965-11-03
Leonhard Harding
German historian and scholar in African studies
1938-09-14
Hans Peter Hahn
German ethnologist and scholar in African studies
1963
David Henige
American historian, bibliographer, academic librarian and Africanist scholar
1938
Melville J. Herskovits
Anthropologist
1895-09-10
1963-02-25
Rolf Hofmeier
German economist (Prof.em.Dr.) director of the Institute for African Studies (IAK), GIGA, Hamburg (1976–2000)
1939
Anne Hugon
French africanist
1965
Carola Lentz
German social anthropologist
1954-04-21
Manuel Iradier
Explorer
1854-07-06
1911-07-19
Anthony Kirk-Greene
Scholar
1925-05-16
2018-07-08
Georg Klute
German ethnologist, sociologist
1952
Ali Mazrui
Professor
1933-02-04
2014-10-12
Henning Melber
German political scientist, sociologist. Prof.em.Dr., Nordic Africa Institute Uppsala, Dag Hammarskjöld Foundation (2006–2012) (Sweden)
1950-08-22
Carl Meinhof
Linguist
1857-07-23
1944-02-11
Rowland Percy Moss
Economist
1928-05-08
Godfrey Mwakikagile
Author, academic, historian, and theorist
1949-10-04
Gustav Nachtigal
German explorer of Central and West Africa.
1834-02-23
1885-04-20
Kwame Nkrumah
Politician and revolutionary
1909-09-21
1972-04-27
Julius Nyerere
Activist, politician, and political theorist
1922-04-13
1999-10-14
Roland Oliver
Academic and Emeritus Professor of African history
1923-03-30
2014-02-09
Hans-Joachim Preuss
Agricultural economist, development expert, university teacher
1955-06-05
Jean Price-Mars
Doctor, teacher, politician, diplomat, writer, and ethnographer
1876-10-15
1969-03-01
Theo Rauch
German economist, consultant, professor
1945-07-17
Terence Ranger
Africanist
1929-11-29
2015-01-03
Robert Sutherland Rattray
Barrister
1881
1938
Walter Rodney
Historian, political activist and academic
1943-03-23
1980-03-13
Justinian Rweyemamu
Economics scholar
1942-09-28
1982-03-30
Galia Sabar
Israeli professor of African studies
1963
Gerd Spittler
German ethnologist and sociologist, Prof.em.Dr., University of Bayreuth
1939-04-04
Jean Suret-Canale
Theoritican, political activist, and resistance fighter
1921-04-27
2007-06-23
Ivan Svanidze
Soviet academic, nephew and son-in-law of Joseph Stalin
1927-10-15
1987-08-03
Bala Usman
Academic, politician and historian
1945
2005-09-24
Ivan Van Sertima
Associate professor of Africana Studies
1935-01-26
2009-05-25
Jan Vansina
Historian and anthropologist
1929-10-14
2017-02-08
Katja Werthmann
German ethnologist, African studies, area studies, Professor at the University of Leipzig
1964
Diedrich Hermann Westermann
Missionary, Africanist, and linguist
1875-04-24
1956-05-31
Ivor Wilks
Africanist and historian
1928-07-19
2014-10-07
Andrzej Zajączkowski
Sociologist, cultural anthropologist, and Africanist
1922-05-27
1994-12-16
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