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List Of White Africans
This is a list of notable White Africans of European ancestry, including both European immigrants who obtained citizenship in an African country and their descendants. List Algeria *Daniel Auteuil, actor *Albert Camus, writer * Pierre Chaulet, physician * Mickaël Fabre, footballer *Nicole Garcia, actor * Danièle Minne, activist * Emmanuel Roblès, writer * Yves Saint Laurent, fashion designer *Jean Sénac, poet Angola * Carlos Alberto Fernandes, footballer *Hugo Ferreira, rock musician *Paulo Figueiredo, footballer *Pepetela, novelist * João Ricardo, footballer *Pedro Emanuel, footballer *Madjer, beach soccer player *Michelle Larcher de Brito, tennis player *Ricardo Teixeira, racing driver *Madilyn Bailey, singer *Paulo Madeira, footballer *José Águas, footballer * Rúben Gouveia, footballer * Luaty Beirão, rapper and activist Botswana * Roy Blackbeard, diplomat * Christian de Graaff, politician * James Freeman, swimmer *Ruth Williams Khama, former first lady ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
No Original Research
No (and variant writings) may refer to one of these articles: English language * Yes and no, ''Yes'' and ''no'' (responses) * A English determiners, determiner in noun phrases Alphanumeric symbols * No (kana), a letter/syllable in Japanese script * No symbol, displayed 🚫 * Numero sign, a typographic symbol for the word 'number', also represented as "No." or similar variants Geography * Norway (ISO 3166-1 country code NO) ** Norwegian language (ISO 639-1 code "no"), a North Germanic language that is also the official language of Norway ** .no, the internet ccTLD for Norway * Lake No, in South Sudan * No, Denmark, village in Denmark * Nō, Niigata, a former town in Japan * No Creek (other) * Acronym for the U.S. city of New Orleans, Louisiana or its professional sports teams ** New Orleans Saints of the National Football League ** New Orleans Pelicans of the National Basketball Association Arts and entertainment Film and television * Dr. No (film), ''Dr. No'' ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Madjer
João Victor Saraiva (born 22 January 1977), better known as Madjer, is a Portuguese retired beach soccer player. He played in the forward position, and has won numerous awards at the FIFA Beach Soccer World Cups for his goalscoring abilities. He took the nickname Madjer because his idol is the former Algerian player Rabah Madjer. He has often been hailed as the best-ever beach soccer player. He became the first player to score 1000 international beach soccer career goals in an 8–1 win against England in September 2016. In 2019, he was considered, by the prestigious magazine France Football, to be the best beach soccer player of all time. International career Madjer has an extraordinary agility and dribbling talent in contrast to his height (194 cm). Besides, he is very capable in acrobatic finishes such as volleys, over-head kicks and bicycle kicks. His skills provide a vital contribution for his team while competing in EBSL, Mundialito, and above all the Beach So ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ian Kirby
Ian Kirby (born 1945) is president of the Botswana Court of Appeal and a former Attorney General of Botswana Botswana (, ), officially the Republic of Botswana ( tn, Lefatshe la Botswana, label=Setswana, ), is a landlocked country in Southern Africa. Botswana is topographically flat, with approximately 70 percent of its territory being the Kalahar .... References Living people 1945 births Botswana judges People named in the Panama Papers {{Africa-law-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Derek Jones (mayor)
John Derek Jones (12 April 1927 – 9 March 2013) was an English Congregationalist missionary and politician in Botswana. A member of the Gaborone City Council, he served as the first Mayor of Gaborone from 1966 to 1968. Biography Jones was born in 1927 in Wallasey, Cheshire, England. His father was a shipping clerk and later a departmental manager in the Liverpool office of the Cunard White Star Line. His mother was a housewife. He did his primary and secondary schooling in Wallasey. His entire family was Methodist and he attended a Methodist Sunday school. dacb.org. Accessed 24 June 2023. He earned a master's degree at the , and then received his |
Ruth Williams Khama
Ruth Williams Khama, Lady Khama (9 December 1923 – 22 May 2002) was the wife of Botswana's first president Sir Seretse Khama, the Paramount Chief of its Bamangwato tribe. She served as the inaugural First Lady of Botswana from 1966 to 1980. Early life Lady Khama was born Ruth Williams in Meadowcourt Road, Blackheath in South London, the daughter of George and Dorothy Williams. Her father had served as a captain in the British Army in India, and later worked in the tea trade. She had a sister, Muriel Williams-Sanderson, with whom she remained close. She was educated at Eltham Hill Grammar School and then served as a WAAF ambulance driver at various airfields in the south of England during the Second World War. After the war, she worked as a clerk for Cuthbert Heath, a firm of underwriters at Lloyd's of London. Marriage In June 1947, at a dance at Nutford House organised by the London Missionary Society, her sister introduced her to Prince Seretse Khama. He was the son ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Freeman (swimmer)
James Samuel Freeman (born 28 March 2001) is a Botswana swimmer. He competed in the men's 400 metre freestyle at the 2019 World Aquatics Championships and he did not qualify to compete in the final. He competed for Botswana at the 2020 Summer Olympics in the men's 200m freestyle event and the men's 400m freestyle event. Freeman is a native of Palapye, Botswana and competes at the collegiate level for the University of Minnesota The University of Minnesota, formally the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, (UMN Twin Cities, the U of M, or Minnesota) is a public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in the Minneapolis–Saint Paul, Tw .... References External links * 2001 births Living people Botswana male freestyle swimmers People from Gaborone White Botswana people Swimmers at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics Swimmers at the 2020 Summer Olympics Olympic swimmers for Botswana Minnesota Golden Gophers men's swimmers Swimm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christian De Graaff
Christian de Graaff (born late 1950s) was the Minister of Agriculture of Botswana from 2011 to 2015 and currently is a Member of Parliament for the Ghanzi District. "Christian DeGraaf." Tsena. Tsena.co, n.d. Web. 16 Jan. 2016. He is an ethnic Afrikaner from Ghanzi, which has historically had a large Boer Boers ( ; af, Boere ()) are the descendants of the Dutch-speaking Free Burghers of the eastern Cape Colony, Cape frontier in Southern Africa during the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries. From 1652 to 1795, the Dutch East India Company controll ... population. References Agriculture ministers Afrikaner people Botswana people of Dutch descent Botswana farmers Government ministers of Botswana Members of the National Assembly (Botswana) People from Ghanzi District White Botswana people 1950s births Living people {{Botswana-politician-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roy Blackbeard
Roy Warren Blackbeard (born 16 April 1953) was the High Commissioner from the Republic of Botswana to the United Kingdom until December 2018. After working for De Beers and Price Waterhouse, as well as operating his own company, he became a Member of the National Assembly of Botswana in 1989, representing Serowe North for the Botswana Democratic Party The Botswana Democratic Party ( abbr. BDP) is the governing party in Botswana. Its chairman is the Vice-President of Botswana, Slumber Tsogwane, and its symbol is a lift jack. The party has ruled Botswana continuously since gaining independenc .... He was appointed the Assistant Minister for Agriculture in 1992 and the Minister in 1994, which he held until 1997; in 1998, he left Parliament and was appointed the High Commissioner in London.Blackbeard, Roy Warren (b. 16 April 1953 - ). In ''Who's Who 2006''. References 1953 births Botswana diplomats Members of the National Assembly (Botswana) Living people Botswana peop ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Luaty Beirão
Luaty Beirão (born 1981), also known by his stage name Ikonoklasta, is an Angolan rapper known for his anti-corruption activism. Life Beirão was born to a Portuguese Angolan family in Luanda and his father, João Beirão, was a well-known member of the MPLA. After developing his initial interest in hip hop during his adolescence, Beirão first entered the music scene himself in 2004, as part of the group Conjunto Ngonguenha. Beirão rose to prominence as an activist after an incident in February 2011, where - upon noticing the son of President José Eduardo dos Santos José Eduardo dos Santos (; 28 August 1942 – 8 July 2022) was the president of Angola from 1979 to 2017. As president, dos Santos was also the commander-in-chief of the Angolan Armed Forces (FAA) and president of the People's Movement for ... at a concert - he jumped onstage and publicly called on dos Santos to step down. In March 2016, he was sentenced to five and a half years in prison for allegedly pl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rúben Gouveia
Rúben Sílvio Lino Gouveia (born 13 March 1985) is an Angolan professional footballer who plays for Portuguese club União Desportiva Alta de Lisboa as a midfielder. Club career Born in Lisbon, Gouveia never played at the professional level in his homeland, amassing third division totals of 186 matches and 30 goals over ten seasons whilst in representation of Estrela de Vendas Novas, Real SC, Atlético SC, S.C.U. Torreense, U.D. Vilafranquense, Casa Pia AC, Clube Oriental de Lisboa (two spells) and União de Santarém. In January 2009, he went on loan to Halesowen Town of the English Isthmian League. Gouveia signed with Girabola club C.R.D. Libolo in 2012. He continued to compete in the Angolan top flight the following years. International career After being awarded the country's citizenship, Gouveia made his debut for Angola on 28 May 2014 at the age of 29, in a 2–0 friendly win against Morocco Morocco (),, ) officially the Kingdom of Morocco, is the wester ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
José Águas
José Pinto de Carvalho Santos Águas (; 9 November 1930 – 10 December 2000) was a Portuguese footballer who played as a striker. He enjoyed a lengthy professional spell with Benfica, never scoring less than 18 goals in 12 of his 13 first division seasons. A prolific goalscorer, Águas was nicknamed "Cabeça de Ouro" ("Golden Head") because of his header skills. Club career Born in Luanda, Portuguese Angola, Portuguese Empire from a Portuguese colonial family, Águas started his footballing career with local team Lusitano do Lobito, before moving to S.L. Benfica in 1950 where he gained legendary status. With Benfica he won the Primeira Liga five times (1955, 1957, 1960, 1961 and 1963) and the domestic cup seven, also being crowned national league's top scorer on five occasions. In the years previous to Eusébio's rise, he was also instrumental in the club's back-to-back European Cup conquests, in 1961 against FC Barcelona ( 3–2), and the next season against Real Madrid ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paulo Madeira
Paulo Sérgio Braga Madeira (born 6 September 1970) is a Portuguese former professional footballer who played as a central defender. Club career Madeira was born in Luanda, Portuguese Angola. A youth graduate of S.L. Benfica, he made his first-team debut in 1989–90 and, after serving a loan with fellow Primeira Liga club C.S. Marítimo, returned for another season. After excellent displays with Lisbon neighbours C.F. Os Belenenses, Madeira was bought back by Benfica, but failed to appear regularly in his second spell with his '' alma mater'' (five years), which included a demotion to the reserves. He retired at almost 34 after brief stints with Fluminense FC and C.F. Estrela da Amadora, with the campaign ending in relegation; over the course of 13 seasons, he amassed top-division (the only competition he appeared in in his country) totals of 291 games and 12 goals. International career At international level, Madeira was part of the Portugal senior team that participate ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |