Dennis OsadebeA medical doctor and former nun, she found an affordable way to expand palliative care in the developing world, bringing pain relief to poor, terminally ill patients.
Dennis OsadebeA master of the kora who worked with Herbie Hancock and Philip Glass, his career was powered as much by experimentation as by reverence for tradition.
Dennis OsadebeMr. Lungu, who was recently barred by a court ruling from running for president again, left a checkered legacy, with allegations that he eroded freedoms while in office.
Dennis OsadebeMr. Ngugi composed the first modern novel in the Gikuyu language on prison toilet paper while being held by Kenyan authorities. He spent many prolific years in exile.
Dennis OsadebeAfter Eton and a successful career in the British Army, he became the go-to guy for military coups, he said. The rewards (and risks) were enormous.
Dennis OsadebeKoyo Kouoh, one of the global art world’s most prominent figures, who had been slated to become the first African woman to curate the Venice Biennale, died on Saturday in…
Dennis OsadebeKenneth Walker, an Emmy Award-winning journalist whose reporting for the ABC News program “Nightline” helped bring the brutality of South Africa’s racist apartheid system to the attention of the American…
Dennis Osadebe“If you say the truth of Africa is in the eye of the beholders,” he said, “you have to ask, Why do so many beholders hold that truth?” Mr. Mudimbe…
Dennis OsadebeSam Nujoma, the starting president of an isolated Namibia, who led a Soviet-backed guerrilla military in an asymmetric combat towards the hugely great forces of white-ruled South Africa in a…
Dennis OsadebeValérie André used to be 10 years worn in 1932 when, armed with a congratulatory bouquet, she greeted the hero aviator Maryse Hilsz on the Strasbourg airfield in France. She…
