Internationally known as “Africa’s Iron Lady,” Nobel Laureate Ellen Johnson Sirleaf is a leading promoter of freedom, peace, justice, women’s empowerment and democratic rule. As Africa’s first democratically-elected female head of state, she has led Liberia through reconciliation and recovery following the nation’s decade-long civil war, as well as the Ebola Crisis, winning international acclaim for achieving economic, social, and …

King Cetshwayo kaMpande of the Zulus, was a hero in a wars with the British, causing the most crushing defeat the English ever experienced from any Africans in modern history. His victory at Isandlhwana was one of the most terrifying slaughters in history. In 1879, the British invaded Zululand. Cetshwayo defeated the British, and killed Prince Napoleon, heir to the …

Mae C. Jemison is an American astronaut and physician who was the first African American woman to be enrolled in the NASA training program on June 4, 1987. Eventually on 12 September 1992, Jemison and six others flew into space on STS47, onboard Endeavour making her the first African American woman in space. Jemison received many distinctions and honorary doctorates …