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Diogo Cão

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Diogo Cão or Cam was a Portuguese explorer who made two voyages along the west coast of Africa in the 1480s. He was the first European known to s...
Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza

Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza

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Pietro Paolo Savorgnan di Brazza, best known as Pierre Paul François Camille Savorgnan de Brazza (January 26, 1852 - September 14, 1905) was a F...
Bartolomeu Dias

Bartolomeu Dias

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Bartolomeu Dias (c. 1450 - May 29, 1500) was a Portuguese explorer who sailed around the the southern tip of Africa in 1488, the first European...
George Grenfell

George Grenfell

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George Grenfell (1849-1906) was an English missionary and explorer. Grenfell was born at Sancreed, near Penzance, Cornwall. In 1875 he went as a...
Pierre Mulele

Pierre Mulele

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Pierre Mulele (August 11, 1929 - October 3 [or October 9, depending on the source], 1968) was a Congolese revolutionary who was briefly minister of...
Jules Ferry

Jules Ferry

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Jules François Camille Ferry. Examples of everyday abuse included pupils and students speaking words in a tongue other than French at school or in t...
Harry Johnston

Harry Johnston

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Sir Henry (Harry) Hamilton Johnston, G.C.M.G., K.C.B. (12 June 1858 - 31 August 1927), was a British explorer, botanist and colonial administrator,...
Joseph Kasa-Vubu

Joseph Kasa-Vubu

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Joseph Kasa-Vubu was the first President (1960-1965) of the Republic of Congo (Congo-Léopoldville), which was later renamed Zaire (1971-97) and s...
Nathaniel Gordon

Nathaniel Gordon

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Nathaniel Gordon (c.1834 - February 21, 1862) was the first and only American slave trader to be tried, convicted and executed "for being engaged...
Verney Lovett Cameron

Verney Lovett Cameron

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Verney Lovett Cameron (July 1, 1844 - March 24, 1894), English traveller in Central Africa and the first European to cross equatorial Africa from...