Henderson's career began in his home city of East London, taking somewhat of a journeyman route with various South African first-class teams before he found himself playing for Kent as a Kolpak signing in 2007.
Since then, I have served as Global Patron of the White Ribbon Alliance for Safe Motherhood, spoken at many forums, including the World Economic Forum in Davos, the United Nations, the World Health Assembly, and the African First Ladies Summit.
In 1952 he became the first African-American pilot in the history of the Corps and in 1978 the first African-American Brigadier General.
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And when Barack Obama takes office in January, his wife, Michelle, will also make history as the country's first African-American first lady.
Kearney was the first African-American coach to win an NCAA national team championship in Division I track and field, and she was the first African-American to serve as a head coach at Texas.
It was, to say the least, an improbable profile for the man who would become the first African American state attorney general, and the first popularly elected African American senator.
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Their frontrunners and now nominee, you know, the first African-American, the first woman, and that's a good thing for the country.
Which was more important: electing the first African-American President or the first woman?
"I looked at it as a four-legged stool with one leg very deep in the ocean, " recalls Fluxman, a tanned, toned South African who first came aboard as chief financial officer and chief operating officer, stepping up to chief executive officer six years ago.
And the minute she wins an accolade in some not-so-diverse department (which, of course, she must, being African), she'll be labeled the "first African-American" to have done so.
Considered a moderate, the 59-year-old is the third African-American female appeals court judge -- and would be the first African-American woman on the high court.
Ageing former South African president and Nobel Peace Prize winner Nelson Mandela, one of the architects of the first African World Cup, will address the audience by video message.
Said Salim Bakhresa is the first African from Tanzania to make the Forbes list.
Do you think that that will matter in any way, that he's the first African-American governor?
The first African female head of state who may just get elected for a second term.
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Our guests are Clarence Edwards, the Montgomery County, Maryland's first African-American chief of police.
She was the first African American elected to Florida statewide office, according to her official biography.
The first African American Justice on the North Carolina Supreme Court was an Aggie.
He is the first African American to be nominated and win a Best Actor Academy Award.
We have the first African American woman to serve as Chief Nurse at Walter Reed Hospital.
"42" tells the story of Jackie Robinson, the very first African American to play major league baseball.
Ghana was among the first African countries to gain independence from the British, breaking loose in 1957.
Uganda becomes the first African nation to have a team qualify for the Little League World Series.
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Local side Club Africain will host APR of Rwanda in a delayed African Champions League first-round tie.
He was the first African-American chief of police in Montgomery County, Maryland, just outside of Washington, D.
But he named the first African-American attorney general, Eric Holder, who has vowed to increase civil-rights enforcement.
As the first African-American woman to be a State Legislator in Idaho, Buckner-Webb has experienced ongoing attacks.
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Over my career, I often served as the first African-American or female in the positions I held.
Barker was one of the first African-Americans to record recollections of the city's musical and social heritage.
The upset was pulled off by Clarence Harmon, who had been the city's first African-American police chief.
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