David Livingstone

David Livingstone

male, deceased (1873)
central, "Dr Livingstone, I presume?", buried at Westminster Abbey, H. M. Stanley, reigning monarch, CentralAfrica…Explorer of Africa, Christianity in Africa, Christian missionary in Africa
David Livingstone (19 March 1813 - 4 May 1873) was a Scottish Presbyterian pioneer medical missionary with the London Missionary Society and...

Jan Vansina

male, 80 years old
University of Wisconsin, historian, Anthropologist, Ethnographer, University of Wisconsin-Madison faculty, mandinka…CentralAfrica
Jan Vansina (b. Antwerp, Belgium, September 14, 1929) is a historian and anthropologist specializing in Africa. He was first trained as a...
Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza

Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza

male, deceased (1905)
brazzaville, CentralAfrica, congo river, west africa, Explorer of Africa, congo
Pietro Paolo Savorgnan di Brazza, best known as Pierre Paul François Camille Savorgnan de Brazza (January 26, 1852 - September 14, 1905) was a F...
Victor Turner

Victor Turner

male, deceased (1983)
Anthropologist of religion, University College London, CentralAfrica, ritual, World War II, Manchester University
Victor Witter Turner was a Scottish anthropologist. Born in Glasgow, Scotland, Turner initially studied poetry and classics at the University...
Gustav Nachtigal

Gustav Nachtigal

male, deceased (1885)
Province of Brandenburg, Khartum, algiers, German Empire, king of prussia, tripoli…Explorer of Africa, CentralAfrica
Gustav Nachtigal, German explorer in Central Africa, son of a Lutheran pastor, was born at Eichstädt in the Province of Brandenburg. After medical s...

Alfred Sharpe

male, deceased (1935)
British, de facto, governor, commissioner, hunter, British Empire…CentralAfrica, British Central Africa
Sir Alfred Sharpe was a professional hunter who became a British colonial administrator and Commissioner (a de facto Governor) of the British...
Verney Lovett Cameron

Verney Lovett Cameron

male, deceased (1894)
British, Nyangwe, Zambezi, East African slave trade, Weymouth, Dorsetshire, slave trade in Africa…equatorial Africa, CentralAfrica, Explorer of Africa
Verney Lovett Cameron (July 1, 1844 - March 24, 1894), English traveller in Central Africa and the first European to cross equatorial Africa from...
Frederick Starr

Frederick Starr

male, deceased (1933)
University of Chicago, professor, Indian, from New York, Anthropologist, Science writer…CentralAfrica
Frederick Starr (September 2, 1858 - August 14, 1933) was an American anthropologist, born at Auburn, New York. He studied at the University of...
J. Clyde Mitchell

J. Clyde Mitchell

male, deceased (1995)
Sociologist, Anthropologist, British, university of zambia, malawi, Social anthropologist…CentralAfrica
James Clyde Mitchell (usually known as J. Clyde Mitchell) (21 June 1918 - 15 November 1995) was a British sociologist and anthropologist. In 1937...

Charles François

male, 87 years old
cybernetics, Introducción a la Prospectiva, Society for General Systems Research, International Federation for Systems Research, systems theory, CentralAfrica
Charles François, born Belgium 1922 is an Belgian specialist in the field of cybernetics, systems theory and systems science. François worked for th...