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Congo House / African Training Institute, students

'Kwesi Ewusi (c.1881-1924) and Joseph A. Abraham (dates unknown) from the Gold Coast, for example, were associated with early Ethiopianist and pan-Africanist organisations in Britain. While studying at university, the Nigerians Ayodeji Oyejola (b. 1876) and Akidiya Ladapo Oluwole (dates unknown) were among the students who took on public-speaking engagements, which raised money for charitable causes in Britain, before they left to commence prominent careers as surgeons in west Africa. The South African Davidson Don Tengo Jabavu (1885-1959) would become a pioneering educator and a founder of the All African Convention, which rallied against segregationist policies in his homeland. ' -- Robert Burroughs

Read the full story here: https://biography.wales/article/s15-CONG-COL-1890

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JAN MORRIS (1926 - 2020), writer

'Fate presented Morris with her first great break: at the age of 26, accompanying the 1953 Everest expedition led by Colonel John Hunt. The Times had bought exclusive rights to the trip, and when the mountain was finally scaled for the very first time, Morris, waiting at the camp at 22,000 feet, devised an elaborate system of codes and runners to telegraph the news back to London, without anyone else seeing it. The story broke on the eve of Queen Elizabeth II's Coronation. It was, Morris wrote later, 'the last innocent adventure'.
A new celebrity status brought a direct approach from publishers Faber & Faber, who published Morris's first book, Coast to Coast (1956), an account of travelling across the USA.' -- Mike Parker

Read the full story here: https://biography.wales/article/s15-MORR-JAN-1926

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