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 |
Sun Ra | 1914-1993 |
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 |
Maya Angelou | 1928-2014 |
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 |
Toni Cade Bambara | 1939-1995 |
Kwame Gyekye | 1939-2019 |
Kwame Ture | 1941-1998 |
Maulana Karenga | born 1941 |
George Clinton | born 1941 |
V.Y. Mudimbe | born 1941 |
Stokely Carmichael | 1941-1998 |
Paulin Hountondji | born 1942 |
Huey P. Newton | 1942-1989 |
Walter Rodney | 1942-1980 |
Hortense Spillers | born 1942 |
Molefi Keti Asante | born 1942 |
H. Rap Brown (Jamal al-Amin) | born 1943 |
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 |