Husband and wife from Sierra Leone, who made their home in London. Deceased in or before 2022.
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George Padmore
International activist and renowned pan Africanist (favouring the unification of Africa).  Born Malcolm Ivan Meredith Nurse in Trinidad.  Travelled a lot. but settled in London in 1935.  Worked as ...
Person, Nationalism, Politics & Administration, Africa, Caribbean Islands, Ghana
1 memorial
Bartolomeu Dias
Portuguese nobleman who sailed around the Cape of Good Hope, the southern tip of Africa, in 1488, the first European known to do so since ancient times.
1 memorial
John Hanning Speke
Explorer. Born Devon. The first European, while on an expedition with Richard Burton to East Africa in 1858, to discover Lake Victoria. On a subsequent journey with James Grant in 1862, he confirme...
1 memorial
Flying Officer Hugh Graham Stanhope Wyrill, DFC
Hugh Graham Stanhope Wyrill was born on 30 August 1919 in Putney, London, a son of Arthur Stanhope Wyrill (1886-1959) and Lilla Gertrude Wyrill née Simmonds (1887-1967). His birth was registered in...
War dead, WW2
1 memorial
Kwame Nkrumah
First President and first Prime Minister of Ghana. Â Born in the Gold Coast Colony, now Ghana. Â Birth date uncertain. Â As a young man he studied first in the USA and then London, at the LSE. Â While ...
1 memorial
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