Amilcar Cabral:Amílcar Lopes Cabral (1924-1973) was the father of modern African nationalism.(born 1921, Bafata, Portuguese Guinea — died Jan. 20, 1973, Conakry, Guinea) Guinean nationalist politician. In 1956 he founded the Partido Africano da Independência da Guiné e Cabo Verde, which in 1962 began a war of liberation against Portuguese forces. By the late 1960s Cabral controlled much of Portuguese Guinea. He was assassinated in 1973. His half-brother, Luís de Almeida Cabral, became the first president of independent Guinea-Bissau in 1974.
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Claude-Ernest Ndalla (born 25 May 1937[1][2]) is a Congolese politician. First coming to prominence as a radical youth leader in the 1960s, he was one of the leading members of the Congolese Labour Party (PCT) in the period immediately following its founding in 1969, but after a few years his career fell into a long decline due to factional struggles within the PCT. Later, he served in the government of Congo-Brazzaville as Minister of Youth Redeployment and Sports from 1997 to 1999, and he has been a Special Adviser to President Denis Sassou Nguesso since 2003.
The Mozambican educator and nationalist Eduardo Chivambo Mondlane (1920-1969) was the leading figure in his country's independence movement from 1962 to 1969.
The President of the Republic of Cape Verde, HE Pedro Verona Rodrigues Pires, was born on April 29, 1934 in the county of S. Filipe, Island of Fogo.
Barthélemy Boganda (4 April 1910 – 29 March 1959) was the leading nationalist politician of what is now the Central African Republic. Boganda was active prior to his country's independence, during the period when the area, part of French Equatorial Africa, was administered by France under the name of Oubangui-Chari. He served as the first Prime Minister of the Central African Republic autonomous territory.
Alpha Oumar Konaré (born in 1946)
Justin Marie Bomboko Lukumba Is'Elenge 1, born in 1928.
Chief Albert Luthuli
Miriam Makeba (4 March 1932 - 10 November 2008), nicknamed Mama Africa, was a Grammy Award winning South African singer and civil rights activist. In the 1960s she was the first artist from Africa to popularize African music in the U.S. and around the world. She is best known for the song "Pata Pata", first recorded in 1957 and released in the U.S. in 1967. She recorded and toured with many popular artists, such as Harry Belafonte, Paul Simon, and her former husband Hugh Masekela. She actively campaigned against the South African system of Apartheid. As a result, the South African government revoked her citizenship and right of return. After the end of Apartheid she returned home. She died on 10 November 2008 after performing in a concert organized to support writer Roberto Saviano in his stand against the Camorra, a mafia-like organisation local to the Region of Campania.
Frank Chikane became politically aware while he was a student. He was very influenced by the Black Consciousness Movement and its ideologies. While studying he was often arrested and held in detention. In 1979 Chikane completed his training as a pastor in the Apostolic Faith Mission, but he was later defrocked due to his political ideas and involvement. After the end of apartheid he was re-instated in the church, and now heads the black section of the church.
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