Jimmy Moxon

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Jimmy Moxon was a white chief and one of the House of Chiefs of the Gold Coast, among his occupations, which also include civil servant, author and publisher. he was born in 1920 and studied history at Cambridge University. He was appointed a Gold Coast Colony District Commissioner, and helped set up the Ghana Information Service. He wrote on African cuisine and set up two eating houses, as well as a publishing company and bookshop in Accra, Ghana. He did not always see projects through, but passed on profitable ideas to friends.

Authors, Writers, Politicians, Moxon, Jimmy

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Sir Alexander Oppenheim

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Mathematician and university administrator Alexander Oppenheim gained a Mathematics Scholarship to Balliol College, Oxford, England. He gave up a tutorship at Exeter College and became a Commonwealth Fellow at the Universities of Chicago. He became Professor of Mathematics at Raffles College in Singapore, and was captured by the Japanese in 1942. He returned to Raffles College after the second world war, and played a key role in setting up the University of Malaya, where he became Dean of Arts and later acting Vice-Chancellor.

Mathematicians, Oppenheim, Alexander

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Kerubino Kuanyin Bol

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Soldier Kerubino Kuanyin Bol attended a Roman Catholic mission primary school in Sudan, reaching the intermediate level. He left formal education to enlist with the Anya Nya, rebel fighters seeking the independence of southern Sudan. He became a field commander in the Sudan People's Liberation Army. He countersigned a peace agrement in 1986, but fighting continued and he was arrested, spending six years in a guerrilla prison.

Soldiers, Bol, Kerubino Kuanyin

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