Tag: Deaths (Obituaries)

Koyo Kouoh, one of the global art world’s most prominent figures, who had been slated to become the first African ...

Kenneth Walker, an Emmy Award-winning journalist whose reporting for the ABC News program “Nightline” helped bring the brutality of South ...

Mr. Mudimbe was unapologetic. “To the question ‘what is Africa?’ or ‘how to define African cultures?’ one today cannot but ...

During the war itself, his SWAPO acquired a reputation for harsh treatment of dissent. In 1976, the organization’s head of ...

Valérie André was 10 years old in 1932 when, armed with a congratulatory bouquet, she greeted the hero aviator Maryse ...

This article is part of Overlooked, a series of obituaries about remarkable people whose deaths, beginning in 1851, went unreported ...