Influential Pan-Africanists

Biographies of Pan-Africanists from Africa and the African Disapora -- these individuals campaigned against the enslavement of African people, for equality, and unification within a pan-African society.

Dusé Mohamed Ali
Dusé Mohamed Ali was an influential Pan-Africanist, a supporter of Islam, and traveled widely throughout the African Diaspora. He founded the 'African Times and Orient Review' in 1911, which spread the call for African nationalism, and later founded 'The Comet' in Lagos, Nigeria.

Luís de Almeida Cabral
A Biography of the Guinea-Bissau Leader Luís Cabral

Ahmed Ben Bella
Ahmed Ben Bella is a Pan-Africanist and nationalist leader of Algeria. He was one of the first to take up the armed struggle against French colonial rule. He became the first president of Algeria in 1963 and was deposed by military coup in 1965.

JE Casely Hayford
Teacher, author, lawyer, politician, Pan-Africanist, and founder of the National Congress of British West Africa (one of the continent's first Pan-African organizations). In the period following WWI JE Casely Hayford was probably the most important nationalist leader in Africa.

Jomo Kenyatta
First president of Kenya and prominent independence leader. Born into dominant Kikuyu culture, Kenyatta became its most famous interpreter of Kikuyu traditions through his book Facing Mount Kenya. Part 1 of his biography, from his early days to his political awakening.

Julius Kambarage Nyerere
A Biography of Julius Kambarage Nyerere, the father of Tanzania.

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