Yash Pal Ghai (born 20 October 1938) is a Kenyan academic in constitutional law. As of 2007 he is the head of the Constitution Advisory Support Unit of the United Nations Development Programme in Nepal. Until 2008, he was a Special Representative of the UN Secretary General in Cambodia on human righ…

Moyez G. Vassanji, CM (born 30 May 1950) is a novelist and editor, who writes under the name M. G. Vassanji. A citizen of Canada, Vassanji's identity spans three continents: North America, Africa, and (South) Asia. M. G. Vassanji was born in Kenya and raised in Tanzania. He attended the Massachusett…

Sir Abdool Razack Mohamed (1906–1978) was an Indian born former key Mauritian Minister in the pre and post-independence cabinet of Mauritius. He is celebrated as one of the fathers of the modern state of Mauritius,and he was the leader of the political party called the CAM (Comite D'Action Musulman)…

Navinchandra Ramgoolam, GCSK, FRCP (born 14 July 1947) is a former Prime Minister of Mauritius and leader of the Labour Party.[1] He was Leader of the Opposition from 1991 to 1995. He served as Prime Minister for the first time from December 1995 until September 2000, and became Leader of the Opposi…

Cassam Uteem (born 22 March 1941) is a Mauritian political figure who served as President of Mauritius from 30 June 1992 to 15 February 2002 and is the longest serving President of Mauritius, having served for nine years. On 15 February 2002 he resigned from his function, after refusing to sign a co…

Harilal Raishi Shah (14 April 1943 – 11 June 2014)[1] was an East African cricketer from Nairobi, Kenya. He played three One day Internationals in the 1975 World Cup.Shah was middle-order batsman who played a first-class game against Sri Lanka in Taunton ahead of that World Cup in which he scored hi…

Alpesh Vallabhdas Vadher (born September 7, 1974 in Nairobi), named after his father, is a former Kenyan cricketer of Indian origin. He is a right-handed batsman. Having made 42 on his debut against Bangladesh in 1997, he did little more until the 1999 Cricket World Cup, in which he made two fifties…

Yash Pal Ghai (born 20 October 1938) is a Kenyan academic in constitutional law. As of 2007 he is the head of the Constitution Advisory Support Unit of the United Nations Development Programme in Nepal. Until 2008, he was a Special Representative of the UN Secretary General in Cambodia on human righ…

Zain Verjee (born February 11, 1974) is journalist who was born and raised in Kenya. Verjee now runs her own Africa focused production company, and is passionate about capturing the new narrative of Africa from authentically African voices. Zain is currently building aKoma, a storytelling and conten…

Kantilal Jivan Shah, known simply as Kanti, is said to be the most written about Seychellois.[citation needed] Described as a Renaissance Man, he has been a guru, historian, natural history expert, palmist, vegetarian cook, photographer, artist and sculptor, agronomist and intellectual. He has been …

Gujjula Ravindra Reddy (born Neredupalli(village), Pedacherlopalli(mandal) Kanigiri, Prakasam District, Andhra Pradesh, India) is a former member of the state parliament of Brandenburg and former mayor of Altlandsberg. Reddy visited areas devastated by the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake. In four villa…

Sebastian Edathy (German pronunciation: [eˈdaːti]; born 5 September 1969 as Sebastian Edathiparambil) is a German politician. He is a prominent member of the Social Democratic Party and became the chairman of a key committee in January 2012 at the Parliament, which was investigating failures of poli…

Mahirwan Mamtani (born 2 November 1935 in Bhiria (Nawabshah) Sindh, India) is painter, graphic and multimedia artist. Mamtani grew up in India, studied there and moved 1966 to Germany, where he had been awarded a scholarship by DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) to study painting at the Kunsta…

You might have seen Sanjay Mavinkurve — he was on The New York Times front page recently. The prestigious newspaper called the 28- year-old Indo-Canadian ‘A Google Whiz.’ Mavinkurve is leader of the Google team that’s building easy-to-use maps for mobile phones. “I was one of the original people on …