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Amílcar Cabral was a Bissau-Guinean and Cape Verdean intellectual, agricultural engineer and independence leader, born in 1924. He became a central figure in the struggle for independence from Portuguese colonial rule.
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Steve Biko was a South African anti-apartheid activist and thinker, born in 1946. He became one of the leading voices of the Black Consciousness Movement, which challenged racial oppression and sought to restore dignity and confidence among Black South Africans.
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Haile Selassie I was Emperor of Ethiopia from 1930 to 1974 and an important African statesman. He became a prominent figure in Africa’s international affairs and Ethiopia’s defence of its sovereignty.
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Jomo Kenyatta was a Kenyan nationalist leader, political thinker and statesman who became a major figure in Kenya’s struggle for independence from British colonial rule. He became Kenya’s first Prime Minister in 1963 and its first President in 1964.
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Barack Hussein Obama II was born in Hawaii in 1961 to a Kenyan father and an American mother. A lawyer, community organiser and politician, he became the 44th President of the United States in 2009 and the first African-American to hold the office.
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Malcolm X was born Malcolm Little in 1925 in Omaha, Nebraska. He became a prominent minister, public speaker and advocate for Black dignity, self-determination and human rights.