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Eduardo Chivambo Mondlane was a Mozambican scholar, sociologist and nationalist leader, born on 20 June 1920. He became the founding president of the Mozambique Liberation Front (FRELIMO) and a leading figure in Mozambique’s struggle for independence from Portuguese colonial rule.
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King Jaja of Opobo, whose birth name was Jubo Jubogha, was born around 1821 in present-day Imo State. After being taken into the domestic slave system and later rising to prominence in Bonny, he became a powerful merchant and eventually founded the Opobo Kingdom in the Niger Delta.
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Abebe Bikila was an Ethiopian long-distance runner, born on 7 August 1932 in Jato, Ethiopia. He became one of Africa’s most celebrated athletes and made history at the 1960 Rome Olympics, winning the marathon while running barefoot. He successfully defended his Olympic marathon title at Tokyo 1964, becoming the first athlete to win the Olympic marathon twice.
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Kunta Kinte is the name given by author Alex Haley to his ancestor, a young Mandinka man from Juffureh in present-day The Gambia who, according to the family history presented in Roots, was captured and transported to North America as an enslaved person in the 18th century. His story became internationally known through Haley’s 1976 novel Roots and its television adaptations.
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Martin Luther King Jr. was an American Baptist minister, civil rights leader, and advocate for racial equality, born on 15 January 1929 in Atlanta, Georgia. He became one of the most influential voices of the American Civil Rights Movement.
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Fela Aníkulápó Kútì, born Olufela Olusegun Oludotun Ransome-Kuti on 15 October 1938 in Abeokuta, Nigeria, was a Nigerian musician, composer, bandleader and political activist. He pioneered Afrobeat, blending West African musical traditions with jazz, funk and other influences.