Timeline Africana

Imhotep ca. 27th cent. BC
Hardjedef ca. 26th cent. BC
Pyramid Texts ca. 24th-22nd cent. BC
Nefer-Seshem-Re ca. 24th cent. BC
Ptahhotep ca. 24th cent. BC
Instruction Addressed to King Merikare ca. 22nd-21st cent. BC
Dispute Between a Man and His Ba ca. 20th cent. BC
Tale of the Eloquent Peasant ca. 19th cent. BC
Book of the Dead ca. 17th-7th cent. BC
Instruction of Any ca. 16th cent. BC
Akhenaten d. ca. 1336 BC
Instruction of Amenemope ca. 13th-11th cent. BC
Physiologus (Ethiopian version) ca. 5th cent.
Kebra Negast completed by 1321
Giyorgis of Segla d. 1425
Zera Yacob (the Emperor) 1399-1468
Enbaqom ca. 1470-ca. 1561
ʿAbd al-Karīm al-Maghīlī d. 1504
Jalāl al-Dīn al-Suyūṭī d. ca. 1505
Book of the Wise Philosophers (Ethiopian) ca. early 16th cent.
Life and Maxims of Secundus (Ethiopian) ca. early 16th cent.
Juan Latino ca. 1516-ca. 1597
Aḥmad Bābā 1556-1627
Walatta Petros 1592-1642
Zera Yacob (the philosopher) 1599-1692
Muḥammad al-Wālī al-Mālikī fl.1688
Walda Heywat fl. ca. late 17th cent.-early 18th cent.
Anton Wilhelm Amo 1703-1758
James Albert Ukawsaw Gronniosaw ca. 1710-1775
Jupiter Hammon 1711-ca. 1806
Jacobus Capitein ca. 1717-1747
Ignatius Sancho ca. 1729-1780
Benjamin Banneker 1731-1806
Prince Hall ca. 1735-1807
Toussaint Louverture ca. 1743-1803
Olaudah Equiano 1745-1797
Absalom Jones 1746-1818
Shaykh ʿAbd Allāh d. 1829
Lemuel Haynes 1753-1833
ʿUthmān Dan Fodio 1754-1817
Phillis Wheatley ca.1754-1784
John Marrant 1755-1791
Quobna Ottobah Cugoano 1757-ca.1791
Jean-Jacques Dessalines ca. 1758-1806
Paul Cuffe 1759-1817
Richard Allen 1760-1831
Thomas Clarkson 1760-1846
James Forten 1766-1842
Daniel Coker 1780-1846
Peter Williams Jr ca. 1780-1840
Muhammad Bello 1781-1837
Baron de Vastey 1781-1820
Jarena Lee 1783-1864
Nana Asmaʾu 1793-1837
Samuel Cornish 1795-1858
David Walker 1796-1830
Sojourner Truth 1797-1883
Hosea Easton 1798-1837
John Russwurm 1799-1851
Maria Stewart 1803-1879
William Whipper 1804-1876
William Lloyd Garrison 1805-1879
Martin Delany 1812-1885
James McCune Smith 1813-1865
Henry Highland Garnet 1815-1881
Samuel Ringgold Ward 1817-1866
Frederick Douglass 1818-1895
Alexander Crummell 1819-1898
Mary Ann Shadd 1823-1893
Frances Ellen Watkins Harper 1825-1911
James Theodore Holly 1829-1911
Luiz Gama 1830-1882
Demesvar Delorme 1831-1901
Edward Blyden 1832-1912
Henry McNeal Turner 1834-1915
James Africanus Beale Horton 1835-1883
Machado de Assis 1839-1908
John Jacob Thomas 1841-1889
Richard Theodore Greener 1844-1922
Archibald Grimké 1849-1930
Joaquim Nabuco 1849-1910
Antenor Firmin 1850-1911
George Washington Woodbey 1854-1937
Fannie Barrier Williams 1855-1944
Louis-Joseph Janvier 1855-1911
John Bruce 1856-1924
Booker T. Washington 1856-1915
T. Thomas Fortune 1856-1928
Anna Julia Cooper 1858-1964
Thomas Nelson Baker 1860-1940
Ida B. Wells 1862-1931
Raul Pompeia 1863-1895
Kelly Miller 1863-1939
Mary Church Terrell 1863-1954
Joseph Ephraim Casely-Hayford 1866-1930
Henry Sylvester Williams 1867-1911
W.E.B. Du Bois 1868-1963
Benito Sylvain 1868-1915
Paul Lawrence Dunbar 1872-1906
William H. Ferris 1874-1941
Carter G. Woodson 1875-1950
Hubert Harrison 1883-1927
Alain Locke 1885-1954
Marcus Garvey 1887-1940
A. Philip Randolph 1889-1979
Claude McKay 1889-1948
Zora Neale Hurston 1891-1960
Frederick Alexander Durham fl. 1892
E. Franklin Frazier 1894-1962
George Schuyler 1895-1977
Amy Ashwood Garvey 1895?-1969
Amy Jacques Garvey 1895-1973
Melville Herskovits 1895-1963
Paul Robeson 1898-1976
C.L.R. James 1901-1989
Oliver Cromwell Cox 1901-1974
Langston Hughes 1902-1967
Countee Cullen 1903-1946
Ralph Bunche 1904-1971
Nnamdi Azikiwe 1904-1996
Placide Tempels 1906-1977
Léopold Sédar Senghor 1906-2001
Richard Wright 1908-1960
Kwame Nkrumah 1909-1972
Obafemi Awolowo 1909-1987
Eric Williams 1911-1981
Aimé Césaire 1913-2008
Ralph Ellison 1914-1994
Abdias do Nascimento 1914-2011
Claudia Jones 1915-1964
Suzanne Cesaire 1915-1966
Harold Cruse 1916-2005
Nelson Mandela 1918-2013
Julius Nyerere 1922-1999
Cheikh Anta Diop 1923-1986
James Baldwin 1924-1987
Amílcar Cabral 1924-1973
Malcolm X 1925-1965
Frantz Fanon 1925-1961
Sylvia Wynter born 1928
Édouard Glissant 1928-2011
Martin Luther King Jr 1929-1968
Derrick Bell 1930-2011
Toni Morrison 1931-2019
Okot p’Bitek 1931-1982
Kwasi Wiredu born 1931
John Mbiti born 1931
Stuart Hall 1932-2014
Audre Lorde 1934-1992
Wole Soyinka born 1934
Amiri Baraka 1934-2014
Larry Neal 1937-1981
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o born 1938
Ishmael Reed born 1938
Fela Kuti 1938-1997
Kwame Gyekye 1939-2019
Kwame Ture 1941-1998
Maulana Karenga born 1941
George Clinton born 1941
V.Y. Mudimbe born 1941
Paulin Hountondji born 1942
Huey P. Newton 1942-1989
Walter Rodney 1942-1980
Hortense Spillers born 1942
Molefi Keti Asante born 1942
Angela Y. Davis born 1944
Henry Odera Oruka 1944-1995
Lucius Outlaw Jr. born 1944
Bob Marley 1945-1981
Steve Biko 1946-1977
Patricia Hill Collins born 1948
Ntozake Shange 1948-2018
Awa Thiam born 1950
Charles Mills born 1951
Patricia J. Williams born 1951
bell hooks born 1952
Cornel West born 1953
Kwame Anthony Appiah born 1954
Paul Gilroy born 1956
Tsenay Serequeberhan born 1957
Achille Mbembe born 1957
Kimberle Crenshaw born 1959
Lewis Gordon born 1962