Christopher Columbus

Christopher Columbus

male, deceased (1506)
new world, Italian, from Genoa, colonialist, cristoforo colombo, Pinta
Christopher Columbus (Genoa?, 1451 - May 20, 1506, Valladolid, Spain) was a navigator and colonialist who is one of several historical figures...
Ngugi Wa Thiong'O

Ngugi Wa Thiong'O

male, 71 years old
New York University, Devil on the Cross, Nairobi University, A Grain of Wheat, Ngaahika Ndeenda, Swahili language…colonialist
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, has as its background the Mau Mau rebellion, and described an unhappy romance between Christians and non-Christians. His novel "A...

Joshua Prawer

male, deceased (1990)
Jewish, Israeli, historian, higher education, university of haifa, Colonialism…colonialist
Joshua Prawer was a notable Israeli historian and a scholar of the Crusades and Kingdom of Jerusalem whose work often attempted to portray Crusader...
Nuruddin Farah

Nuruddin Farah

male, 64 years old
Somali Diaspora, Secrets, GIFTS, Dagens Nyheter, postcolonial, colonialist
Nuruddin Farah, the story of a nomad girl who flees from an arranged marriage to a much older man. The novel garnered Farah mild but international...

Khama III

male, deceased (1923)
German, botswana, boer, ndebele, Colonialism, Botswanan…colonialist
Khama III (1837?-1923), also known as Khama the Good, was the "kgosi" (meaning chief or king) of the Bamangwato people of Bechuanaland (now...
Kubu Kubu

Kubu Kubu

male
forest, Stanley Nyaga, Embu district, General Kubu Kubu, Kirimiri Forest Hill, Embu…colonialist
General Kubu Kubu was the most venerated freedom hero within the Embu country (in Kenya, East Africa). His name means "heavy footsteps" and was...

André Mandouze

male, deceased (2006)
French, journalist, anti-fascist, anti-colonialist
André Mandouze, was a French academic and journalist, a Catholic, and an anti-fascist and anti-colonialist activist. He was a confidant of L...

Jacques Vergès

male, 84 years old
communist, anti-colonialist, French, Holocaust denial, lawyer, Former Muslim
Jacques Vergès is a controversial French lawyer and famous anti-colonialist communist figure. He has been noted for defending unpopular figures s...

Ramadan Shlash

male
euphrates, anti-colonialist, Deir ez-Zour
Ramadan Shlash (Fr. Chelache), although at one time an official in Deir ez-Zour, is most known for having taken a significant role in the...
Semei Kakungulu

Semei Kakungulu

male, deceased (1928)
Jewish, judaism, British, clan, uganda, Jewish person…British colonialist
Semei Kakungulu was a Ugandan man who founded the Abayudaya community in Uganda in 1917. The Abayudaya follow Jewish practices and consider...