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Musa Haji Deria Mohamed (Johns ’61)

A prominent Judge, Musa Haji Deria Mohamed served as Attorney-General of the Somali Republic from…

Born Barrington John Reckord in 1926, Kingston Jamaica, “Barry” was a Jamaican playwright who is…

Described by many of his peers as the “uncrowned king of West Africa”, Casely Hayford…

Alexander Crummell was an African-American Episcopalian minister, scholar, and educator, and was the first known…

Alinah Kelo Segobye is an archaeologist, social development activist, and African futures thinker and practitioner.…

Archibald Boyce Monwabisi Mafeje (March 30, 1936 – March 28, 2007), also known as Archie…

Diane Julie Abbott is both the first black woman ever elected to the UK Parliament…

Dr Ato Quayson is a Ghanaian literary critic and the Jean G. and Morris M.…

Dr Danielle S. Allen is a political theorist, author, educator, and the James Bryant Conant…

Thomas Risley Odhiambo was a Kenyan entomologist and environmental activist who dedicated his life to…

Efua Theodora Sutherland (née Morgue) was a Ghanaian educationalist, playwright, director, poet, children’s author, and…

Errollyn Wallen CBE is a Belize-born British composer, librettist, and singer-songwriter recognized as a “renaissance…

Gloria Cumper (née Carpenter) is an incredibly important person in Black Cantab History seeing as…

Henry Louis Gates Jr. is an American literary critic, professor, historian, filmmaker who has made…

Kwame Akroma-Ampim Kusi Anthony Appiah FRSL is an ethicist, novelist, and scholar of global philosophy. …

Kwamé Ryan is a world-renowned conductor and music educator in the Caribbean. Born in Canada…

Lola Adesioye is a British, New York-based writer, commentator, broadcaster, and singer-songwriter. Through her writings,…

Lt. David Louis Clemetson was the first Black officer commissioned by the British Army. While…

Patricia Cumper, MBE, FRSA, is an award-winning playwright, director, theatre producer, radio drama writer, arts…

Naomie Melanie Harris OBE is an extremely accomplished English actress born in 1976 to Jamaican…

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