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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
1918 – 2008The Gulag Archipelago broke the Soviet system's moral standing.
Russia·Literature · HistoryNobel
Amílcar Cabral
1924 – 1973Agronomist whose theory of culture and liberation shaped decolonisation.
Guinea-Bissau·Philosophy · History
Kamau Brathwaite
1930 – 2020Theorised 'nation language' and Caribbean creolisation.
Barbados·Literature · History
Ali Mazrui
1933 – 2014Defined the 'triple heritage' framework for African identity.
Kenya·History · Philosophy
Assia Djebar
1936 – 2015Novelist and filmmaker of Algerian women's silenced history.
Algeria·Literature · History
Eduardo Galeano
1940 – 2015Open Veins of Latin America reframed a hemisphere's economic history.
Uruguay·History · Literature
Svetlana Alexievich
b. 1948Built a new documentary genre from thousands of interviews.
Belarus·Literature · HistoryNobel