People of great achievement
Gwendolyn Brooks Gwendolyn Elizabeth Brooks was an American poet, author, and teacher who won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry on May 1, 1950, for Annie Allen, making her the first African American to receive a Pulitzer Prize. Date of birth: 7th June 1917 Place of birth: Kansas, USA Achievement: First American African to receive a […]
Angela Davis Strength in struggle. First of all, it removes us from a sense of ourselves as only individuals. It allows us to imagine ourselves as a part of something much larger. It gestures toward the future at the same time as it allows us to imagine ourselves as the product of the imagination, of
Wole Soyinka, in full Akinwande Oluwole Soyinka is a Nigerian playwright and political activist who received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1986. Date of Birth: 13th July 1934Place of Birth: NigeriaAchievement: He was awarded the 1986 Nobel Prize in Literature, the first African to be honoured in that category. Soyinka was born into a Yoruba family in Abeokuta.
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Julius Kambarage Nyerere One of Africa’s most respected figures, Julius Nyerere (1922 — 1999) was a politician of principle and intelligence. Known as Mwalimu or teacher he had a vision of education that was rich with possibility “Schoolmaster by choice and a politician by accident” Julius Kambarage Nyerere was born on April 13, 1922 in
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