My Name is Captain John Smith: English Soldier, Explorer, & Leader of Jamestown I was born in 1580 in Willoughby, Lincolnshire, England....

My Name is Nyatsimba Mutota: Shona Elder I was born into the heart of the Shona lands, among people who cherished the wisdom of our...

My Name is Sir Walter Raleigh: Courtier, Explorer, and Dreamer of Empires I was born in Devon in 1552, into a world where England was...

My Name is Queen Mwana Mkisi: Ruler of Kilwa I was born among the people of the coast, long before the coral stone towns rose in their...

My Name is Sir Francis Drake: English Sea Captain, Privateer, and Explorer I was born around 1540 in Devon, England, the son of a farmer...

My Name is Mzee Juma: Elder of the Swahili Coast I was born on the shore where the forest meets the ocean, in a small village that looked...

My Name is Sebastian Cabot: Navigator and Explorer I was born around the year 1474, the son of John Cabot, a man whose voyages across the...

My Name is Sunni Ali: First Great Ruler of the Songhai Empire I was born in the town of Ali Kolon near the city of Gao around the year...

My Name is Francisco Pizarro: Conquistador of the Inca Empire I was born around 1475 in Trujillo, Spain, the illegitimate son of a poor...

My Name is Tunka Manin: Th Last Ruler of the Ghana Empire I was born among the Soninke people, heirs of a proud and wealthy land. From a...

My Name is Lady Xook: Noblewoman of the Mayan Civilization I was born into the royal house of Yaxchilán, a city of stone temples and...

My Name is Za Alayaman (c. 8th–9th century AD): Founder of the Za Dynasty of Songhai Rule, Along the Niger River I was not born along the...

My Name is Hernán Cortés: Spanish Conquistador and Governor of New Spain I was born in 1485 in the small town of Medellín, in the...

My Name is Mufwene: Elder Oral Historian (fictional composite figure) My name is Mufwene, and I was born on the shores of a great lake...

Ferdinand Magellan: The First to Try to Circumnavigate the World I was born around the year 1480 in the quiet northern Portuguese town of...

My Name is Bokang: The Clan Elder   I was born under a sky filled with sharp, bright stars, in the heart of the Kalahari. My mother said...

My Name is Queen Nzinga Mbande of Ndongo & Matamba: Portuguese Resistance I was born in 1583, in the Kingdom of Ndongo, in the heart of...

My Name is Taye: The Clan Elder   I was born in a small cluster of huts surrounded by fields of millet and sorghum, in a time when the...

My Name is Juan Ponce de León – Searched for the Fountain of Youth, And All I Found was Florida I was born in the small town of Santervás...

My Name is Tariq: The Rain Seeker   (Fictional Figure) I was born in a time when the Sahara was not a desert but a vast, open grassland...