Political Leaders

• Shaka Zulu (Zulu Empire)
• King Cetshwayo kaMpande (Zulu War of 1879)
• Kwame Ture
• Patrice Lumumba (Congo)
• Thomas Sankara (Burkina Faso)
• Nelson Mandela (South Africa)
• Martin Luther King Jr.
• Jesse Jackson
• Barak Obama
• D.C. Mayor Marion Barry
• Bobby Seale
• Fred Hampton

Economic Leaders

• Booker T. Washington
• Mansa Musa (Mali Empire)
• Marcus Garvey (Economic Nationalism)
• Julius Nyerere (Tanzania – Ujamaa socialism)
• Robert F. Smith
• Madam C.J. Walker

Religious Leaders

• Haile Selassie (Ethiopian Orthodox / Rastafari)
• Desmond Tutu (South Africa)
• Usman dan Fodio (Sokoto Caliphate)
• Menelik II (Ethiopia)
• Elijah Muhammad

Educational and Philosophical Leaders

• W. E. B. Du Bois
• Cheikh Anta Diop
• Malcolm X
• Amiri Baraka
• Carter G. Woodson
• Ida B. Wells
• Shirley Chisholm
• Sojourner Truth

Legal / Political Advocates

• Colin Powell
• Condoleezza Rice
• Candice Owens
• Hiram R. Revels
• Joseph Rainey
• Crispus Attucks
• Johnnie Cochran
• Al Sharpton

Artistic / Cultural Icons

• Tupac Shakur
• Fela Kuti
• Langston Hughes
• Bob Marley
• Maya Angelou
• Jean-Michel Basquiat
• Burna Boy

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