Aaron Douglas Babatunde Olatunji Painter Drummer France United States
Abram Petrovich Gannibal Barbara Chase-Riboud Military engineer, nobleman in Russian empire Novelist and sculptor France Rome
Abune Paulos Bessie Coleman Patriarch of the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church Aviator New York Paris
Aisha Tyler Carter G. Woodson Actress, comedian Founded Black History Month Africa Paris
Alexander Crummel Charles R. Drew Episcopal priest Physician Cambridge Canada
Alice Walker Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Writer Author Uganda Connecticut
Angela Davis Christian Okoye Activist, author, revolutionary NFL player Paris California
Anna Julia Cooper Condoleezza Rice Author, educator U.S. Secretary of State Paris Russia
Archibald Motley Artist Paris Cory Booker Fela Kuti Mayor of Newark, NJ Musician Oxford London
Debbie Ferguson-McKenzie Flemmie Kittrell Olympic gold medalist (track and field) Helped create Head Start Program Georgia West Africa, India, Japan, Thailand
Desmond Tutu Freeman Hrabowski Activist, archbishop President of UMBC London Cairo
Dikembe Mutombo Hakeem Olajuwon Basketball player NBA player Washington D.C. Houston
Dr. Randall Pinkett Helene Mambu-ma-Disu Rhodes Scholar Public health expert, UN diplomat Oxford Ohio, D.C.
Eamonn Walker Henry Louis Gates, Jr Actor Literature scholar New York Cambridge
Elijah McCoy Holly Robinson Peete Engineer and inventor Actress Edinburgh Paris
Ernest Coleman Ian Khama Physicist President of Botswana Hamburg UK
Ernest Everett Just Zoologist, biologist Berlin Ishmael Beah John Atta Mills Former child soldier President of Ghana New York City London
James Baldwin John Dramani Mahama Author President of Ghana Paris Moscow
James Compton Johnetta Cole CEO of Chicago Urban League President of Spelman, President of Smithsonian's Nat'l Museum of African France Art Liberia James Lesure Actor Jomo Kenyatta England First Prime Minister of Kenya London James Meredith Civil rights activist Jose Celso Barbosa Nigeria Physician New York City James Weldon Johnson Former head of NAACP, US ambassador to Nicaragua and Venezuela Joseph Sebarenzi Nicaragua & Venezuela Former President of the Parliament of Rwanda Ireland Jessie Fauset Novelist Paris Josephine Baker Actress, entertainer Jimi Hendrix France Musician London (spent time there, didn't actually study abroad) Joyce Bamford-Addo Speaker of the Parliament of Ghana John Amaechi UK NBA player, first former NBA player to come out Ohio Joyce Hilda Banda Leopold Sedar Senghor President of Malawi Poet, first president of Senegal Italy Paris
Julius Coles Manute Bol Civil rights activist, director of Andrew Young Center NBA player Switzerland US
Katherine Dunham Marian Wright Edelman Dancer Founder of Children's Defense Fund Caribbean Paris and Geneva
Kerry Washington Maya Angelou Actress Poet Europe Cairo, Ghana
Kirani James Mercer Cook Grenada's first Olympic medalist (track and field) US ambassador to Niger, Senegal, and Gambia Alabama Paris
Kofi Annan Miles Davis Former UN Secretary, 2001 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Musician Minnesota Paris
Kwame Anthony Appiah Myron Rolle Philosopher NFL athlete, former Rhodes Scholar UK Oxford
Kwame Nkrumah Norbert Rillieux 1st president of Ghana Chemist Pennsylvania Paris
Leonard Goodloe Chef Italy Norman Manley Rita Dove Jamaican statesman Poet, Pulitzer Prize winner Oxford Germany
Ory Okolloh Russell Hornsby Kenyan activist and lawyer Actor Pittsburgh Oxford
Oussama Mellouli Seretse Khama Olympic medalist (swimming) 1st President of Botswana US Oxford
Palmer C. Hayden Shirley Chisholm Painter 1st African American Congresswoman Paris Barbados
Paul Laurence Dunbar Shirley Graham Du Bois Poet, novelist, playwright Author, playwright, activist England Paris
Paul Robeson Sikhanyiso Dlamini Singer, activist Princess of Swaziland London England
Ralph Bunche Sista Soulja Diplomat Activist, novelist, actress, hip-hop artist London, Cape Town Salamanca
Richard Wright Susan Rice Author UN ambassador Paris Oxford
Rick Fox Tia Mowery NBA player Actress from Sister, Sister Indiana Italy Tidjane Thiam CEO of Prudential France
Toni Cade Bambara Author Florence, Paris
Tracie Thoms Actress UK
Uwem Akpan Nigerian Jesuit priest Michigan
Veronica Campbell-Brown Olympic medalist (track and field) Kansas
W.E.B. DuBois 19th century writer and activist Berlin
Wangari Maathai Environmentalist, Nobel Peace Prize Pittsburgh
Wes Moore Author South Africa
William Kamkwamba Engineer, inventor US