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Africanus Horton (1835–1883), also known as James Beale, was a Krio African nationalist writer and an esteemed medical surgeon in the British Army from Freetown, Sierra Leone. Africanus Horton was a surgeon, scientist, soldier, and a political thinker who worked toward African independence a century before it occurred. In his varied career, he served as a physician, an officer in the British Army, a banker, and a mining entrepreneur. In addition, he wrote a number of books and essays, the most widely remembered of which is his 1868 Vindication of the African Race, an answer to the white racist authors emerging in Europe. His writings look ahead to African self-government, anticipating many events of the 1950s and 1960s, and Horton is often seen as one of the founders of African nationalism

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  • Africanus Horton (1835–1883), also known as James Beale, was a Krio African nationalist writer and an esteemed medical surgeon in the British Army from Freetown, Sierra Leone. Africanus Horton was a surgeon, scientist, soldier, and a political thinker who worked toward African independence a century before it occurred. In his varied career, he served as a physician, an officer in the British Army, a banker, and a mining entrepreneur. In addition, he wrote a number of books and essays, the most widely remembered of which is his 1868 Vindication of the African Race, an answer to the white racist authors emerging in Europe. His writings look ahead to African self-government, anticipating many events of the 1950s and 1960s, and Horton is often seen as one of the founders of African nationalism and has been called "the father of modern African political thought". He wrote a book entitled West African Countries and Peoples (1868). A crater on Mercury is named after him. (en)
  • Africanus Horton (1835-1883), James Beale, médico, escritor y folclorista de Sierra Leona. Africanus nació en el seno de una tribu igbo cerca de Freetown, Sierra Leona como James Horton. Por el duro clima de África Occidental, los británicos entrenaban a los nativos como médicos. A través de este programa, Horton pudo estudiar en el King's College de Londres y en la Universidad de Edimburgo, en la que se licenció en medicina en abril de 1859. Además de ejercer como médico, fue oficial de la Armada Británica, banquero, empresario minero y escribió bastantes libros y ensayos como Vindication of the African Race de 1868, en respuesta al racismo que emergía en Europa. Su obra pronosticó el autogobierno africano y muchos otros acontecimientos en África de los años 1950 y 1960. Se le suele considera fundador del movimiento nacionalista africano. * Datos: Q4690079 * Multimedia: James Africanus Horton / Q4690079 (es)
  • Africanus Horton, född 1835, död 1883, även känd som James Beale, var en författare, läkare och folklorist från Sierra Leone. Africanus föddes nära Freetown, Sierra Leone, som James Horton. Hans föräldrar var frigivna slavar. Han tog senare efternamnet Beale efter rektorn på hans grammatikskola och förnamnet Africanus. Han utbildade sig till läkare i London. I karriären var han förutom läkare även officer i brittiska flottan, banktjänsteman och gruventreprenör. Samtidigt skrev han ett antal böcker och essäer och medicin, politik och utbildning. De mest kända av dessa är West African Countries and Peoples (1868), där kravet om självstyre läggs fram utifrån tanken på att afrikaner är likvärdiga med européer, och Vindication of the African Race (1868). Horton ses ofta som en av grundarna till den . (sv)
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  • Africanus Horton (1835–1883), also known as James Beale, was a Krio African nationalist writer and an esteemed medical surgeon in the British Army from Freetown, Sierra Leone. Africanus Horton was a surgeon, scientist, soldier, and a political thinker who worked toward African independence a century before it occurred. In his varied career, he served as a physician, an officer in the British Army, a banker, and a mining entrepreneur. In addition, he wrote a number of books and essays, the most widely remembered of which is his 1868 Vindication of the African Race, an answer to the white racist authors emerging in Europe. His writings look ahead to African self-government, anticipating many events of the 1950s and 1960s, and Horton is often seen as one of the founders of African nationalism (en)
  • Africanus Horton (1835-1883), James Beale, médico, escritor y folclorista de Sierra Leona. Africanus nació en el seno de una tribu igbo cerca de Freetown, Sierra Leona como James Horton. Por el duro clima de África Occidental, los británicos entrenaban a los nativos como médicos. A través de este programa, Horton pudo estudiar en el King's College de Londres y en la Universidad de Edimburgo, en la que se licenció en medicina en abril de 1859. * Datos: Q4690079 * Multimedia: James Africanus Horton / Q4690079 (es)
  • Africanus Horton, född 1835, död 1883, även känd som James Beale, var en författare, läkare och folklorist från Sierra Leone. Africanus föddes nära Freetown, Sierra Leone, som James Horton. Hans föräldrar var frigivna slavar. Han tog senare efternamnet Beale efter rektorn på hans grammatikskola och förnamnet Africanus. Han utbildade sig till läkare i London. I karriären var han förutom läkare även officer i brittiska flottan, banktjänsteman och gruventreprenör. Samtidigt skrev han ett antal böcker och essäer och medicin, politik och utbildning. De mest kända av dessa är West African Countries and Peoples (1868), där kravet om självstyre läggs fram utifrån tanken på att afrikaner är likvärdiga med européer, och Vindication of the African Race (1868). Horton ses ofta som en av grundarna till (sv)
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