Fazul Abdullah Mohammed

Fazul Abdullah Mohammed

male, 35 years old
al-qaeda, Al-Qaeda member, Moroni, Comoros, Comoros Islands, Comorian language, Swahili language…eastafrica
Fazul Abdullah Mohammed is a suspected member of al-Qaeda, sometimes purported to be the leader of their East African presence. Mohammed was born...
Jan Smuts

Jan Smuts

male, deceased (1950)
South African statesmen, Fellow of the Royal Society, South Africans of World War I, Boer general, Legion of Frontiersmen member, South African military decorations…Prime Minister of South Africa, Apartheid in South Africa, Union of South Africa, German East Africa
Field Marshal Jan Christiaan Smuts, OM, CH, PC, ED, KC, FRS (May 24, 1870 - September 11, 1950) was a prominent South African and British...
Charles Onyango-Obbo

Charles Onyango-Obbo

male, 51 years old
Nation Media Group, sexually abused, Second Congo War, sedition, The Monitor, Nieman Fellow…eastafrica
Charles "Mase" Onyango-Obbo (born 1958) is a Ugandan author, journalist, former editor of "The Monitor" and political commentator of issues in East...
Lou Vincent

Lou Vincent

male, 31 years old
cricketer, eastafrica, Zimbabwean cricket team, Warkworth, C&G Trophy, Warkworth, New Zealand…East African cricket team
Lou Vincent (born 11 November 1978 in Warkworth) is a member of the New Zealand cricket team A right-handed batsman, Vincent made his Test debut in...

Sir Michael Wood

male, deceased (1987)
Doctor, eastafrica, British, rockefeller, nairobi, Belgian Congo
Sir Michael Wood was born on the January 28 1918 in the United Kingdom. He studied medicine, and in 1943 he qualified as a surgeon and soon after...
Norbert Mao

Norbert Mao

male
eastafrica, Gulu Municipality, Parliamentary Network on the World Bank, Great Lakes Parliamentary Forum on Peace, Ugandan government, Politics of Uganda
Norbert Mao (born March 12, 1967) is Local Council 5 (LC5) Chairman for Gulu District, Uganda, and former Member of Parliament for Gulu...
M. G. Vassanji

M. G. Vassanji

male, 59 years old
Afro-Asian-Canadian, university of nairobi, Order of Canada, Tanzanian, immigrant to Canada, South Asian…eastafrica
M.G. Vassanji, C.M. is an Afro-Asian-Canadian novelist. Although of South Asian heritage, Vassanji grew up in East Africa--he was born in Nairobi,...

Michael Roberts

male, deceased (1997)
World War II, Rhodes University College, early modern, Swedish history, Royal Irish Academy, Old Rhodian…eastafrica
Michael Roberts (1908-1997) was a British historian specializing in the early modern period and particularly known for his studies of Swedish...
Zulfiqar Ali

Zulfiqar Ali

male, 62 years old
kenyan, Cricketer at the 1975 Cricket World Cup, wicket, East African cricket team, Mombasa, England cricket team…World Cup cricketer of East Africa, eastafrica, East African
Zulfiqar Ali (born 1947, Mombasa, Kenya) was a right handed bowler who played three ODIs for East Africa. In his third match, against England, he...
Karl Peters

Karl Peters

male, deceased (1918)
Lutheran, chancellor of Germany, German, eastafrica, chancellor, tanzania…Explorer of Africa, German East Africa, German East Africa Company
Karl Peters, German traveller in Africa, one of the founders of German East Africa (East Africa, today's Tanzania), was born at Neuhaus on the...