Timeline Africana

Imhotepca. 27th cent. BC
Hardjedefca. 26th cent. BC
Pyramid Textsca. 24th-22nd cent. BC
Nefer-Seshem-Reca. 24th cent. BC
Ptahhotepca. 24th cent. BC
Instruction Addressed to King Merikareca. 22nd-21st cent. BC
Dispute Between a Man and His Baca. 20th cent. BC
Tale of the Eloquent Peasantca. 19th cent. BC
Book of the Deadca. 17th-7th cent. BC
Instruction of Anyca. 16th cent. BC
Akhenatend. ca. 1336 BC
Instruction of Amenemopeca. 13th-11th cent. BC
Physiologus (Ethiopian version)ca. 5th cent.
Kebra Negastcompleted by 1321
Giyorgis of Seglad. 1425
Zera Yacob (the Emperor)1399-1468
Enbaqomca. 1470-ca. 1561
ʿAbd al-Karīm al-Maghīlīd. 1504
Jalāl al-Dīn al-Suyūṭīd. ca. 1505
Book of the Wise Philosophers (Ethiopian)ca. early 16th cent.
Life and Maxims of Secundus (Ethiopian)ca. early 16th cent.
Juan Latinoca. 1516-ca. 1597
Aḥmad Bābā1556-1627
Walatta Petros1592-1642
Zera Yacob (the philosopher)1599-1692
Muḥammad al-Wālī al-Mālikīfl.1688
Walda Heywatfl. ca. late 17th cent.-early 18th cent.
Anton Wilhelm Amo1703-1758
James Albert Ukawsaw Gronniosawca. 1710-1775
Jupiter Hammon1711-ca. 1806
Jacobus Capiteinca. 1717-1747
Ignatius Sanchoca. 1729-1780
Benjamin Banneker1731-1806
Prince Hallca. 1735-1807
Toussaint Louvertureca. 1743-1803
Olaudah Equiano1745-1797
Absalom Jones1746-1818
Shaykh ʿAbd Allāhd. 1829
Lemuel Haynes1753-1833
ʿUthmān Dan Fodio1754-1817
Phillis Wheatleyca.1754-1784
John Marrant1755-1791
Quobna Ottobah Cugoano1757-ca.1791
Jean-Jacques Dessalinesca. 1758-1806
Paul Cuffe1759-1817
Richard Allen1760-1831
Thomas Clarkson1760-1846
James Forten1766-1842
Daniel Coker1780-1846
Peter Williams Jrca. 1780-1840
Muhammad Bello1781-1837
Baron de Vastey1781-1820
Jarena Lee1783-1864
Nana Asmaʾu1793-1837
Samuel Cornish1795-1858
David Walker1796-1830
Sojourner Truth1797-1883
Hosea Easton1798-1837
John Russwurm1799-1851
Maria Stewart1803-1879
William Whipper1804-1876
William Lloyd Garrison1805-1879
Martin Delany1812-1885
James McCune Smith1813-1865
Henry Highland Garnet1815-1881
Samuel Ringgold Ward1817-1866
Frederick Douglass1818-1895
Alexander Crummell1819-1898
Mary Ann Shadd1823-1893
Frances Ellen Watkins Harper1825-1911
James Theodore Holly1829-1911
Luiz Gama1830-1882
Demesvar Delorme1831-1901
Edward Blyden1832-1912
Henry McNeal Turner1834-1915
James Africanus Beale Horton1835-1883
Machado de Assis1839-1908
John Jacob Thomas1841-1889
Richard Theodore Greener1844-1922
Archibald Grimké1849-1930
Joaquim Nabuco1849-1910
Antenor Firmin1850-1911
George Washington Woodbey1854-1937
Fannie Barrier Williams1855-1944
Louis-Joseph Janvier1855-1911
John Bruce1856-1924
Booker T. Washington1856-1915
T. Thomas Fortune1856-1928
Anna Julia Cooper1858-1964
Thomas Nelson Baker1860-1940
Ida B. Wells1862-1931
Raul Pompeia1863-1895
Kelly Miller1863-1939
Mary Church Terrell1863-1954
Joseph Ephraim Casely-Hayford1866-1930
Henry Sylvester Williams1867-1911
W.E.B. Du Bois1868-1963
Benito Sylvain1868-1915
Paul Lawrence Dunbar1872-1906
William H. Ferris1874-1941
Carter G. Woodson1875-1950
Hubert Harrison1883-1927
Alain Locke1885-1954
Marcus Garvey1887-1940
A. Philip Randolph1889-1979
Claude McKay1889-1948
Zora Neale Hurston1891-1960
Frederick Alexander Durhamfl. 1892
E. Franklin Frazier1894-1962
George Schuyler1895-1977
Amy Ashwood Garvey1895?-1969
Amy Jacques Garvey1895-1973
Melville Herskovits1895-1963
Paul Robeson1898-1976
C.L.R. James1901-1989
Oliver Cromwell Cox1901-1974
Langston Hughes1902-1967
Countee Cullen1903-1946
Ralph Bunche1904-1971
Nnamdi Azikiwe1904-1996
Placide Tempels1906-1977
Léopold Sédar Senghor1906-2001
Richard Wright1908-1960
Kwame Nkrumah1909-1972
Obafemi Awolowo1909-1987
Eric Williams1911-1981
Aimé Césaire1913-2008
Ralph Ellison1914-1994
Abdias do Nascimento1914-2011
Sun Ra1914-1993
Claudia Jones1915-1964
Suzanne Cesaire1915-1966
Harold Cruse1916-2005
Nelson Mandela1918-2013
Julius Nyerere1922-1999
Cheikh Anta Diop1923-1986
James Baldwin1924-1987
Amílcar Cabral1924-1973
Malcolm X1925-1965
Frantz Fanon1925-1961
Sylvia Wynterborn 1928
Maya Angelou1928-2014
Édouard Glissant1928-2011
Martin Luther King Jr1929-1968
Derrick Bell1930-2011
Toni Morrison1931-2019
Okot p’Bitek1931-1982
Kwasi Wireduborn 1931
John Mbitiborn 1931
Stuart Hall1932-2014
Audre Lorde1934-1992
Wole Soyinkaborn 1934
Amiri Baraka1934-2014
Larry Neal1937-1981
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'oborn 1938
Ishmael Reedborn 1938
Fela Kuti1938-1997
Toni Cade Bambara1939-1995
Kwame Gyekye1939-2019
Kwame Ture1941-1998
Maulana Karengaborn 1941
George Clintonborn 1941
V.Y. Mudimbeborn 1941
Stokely Carmichael1941-1998
Paulin Hountondjiborn 1942
Huey P. Newton1942-1989
Walter Rodney1942-1980
Hortense Spillersborn 1942
Molefi Keti Asanteborn 1942
H. Rap Brown (Jamal al-Amin)born 1943
Angela Y. Davisborn 1944
Henry Odera Oruka1944-1995
Lucius Outlaw Jr.born 1944
Bob Marley1945-1981
Steve Biko1946-1977
Patricia Hill Collinsborn 1948
Ntozake Shange1948-2018
Awa Thiamborn 1950
Charles Millsborn 1951
Patricia J. Williamsborn 1951
bell hooksborn 1952
Cornel Westborn 1953
Kwame Anthony Appiahborn 1954
Paul Gilroyborn 1956
Tsenay Serequeberhanborn 1957
Achille Mbembeborn 1957
Kimberle Crenshawborn 1959
Lewis Gordonborn 1962