Isidore Okpewho
Isidore Okpewho, NNOM( 9 November 1941 – 4 September 2016), was a Nigerian novelist and critic.
He won the 1976 African Arts Prize for Literature, and the 1993 Commonwealth Writers' Prize, Best Book Africa.
Also a classicist and scholar, he has been described as one of the most brilliant men of his generation and one of Nigeria ’s most iconic literary figures".
His academic career took him to the US, where he lived with his wife and four children since 1991 until his death, in Binghamton, New York.
According to Professor G. G. Darah of the Nigerian Oral Literature Association( NOLA), Okpewho" will be best remembered for his original contribution to the discourse of oral literature and epics.
The value of his scholarship in this area is comparable to that of Professor Cheikh Anta Diop of Senegal on Egyptian sciences and philosophy, Professor Samir Amin of Egypt on African political economy, Professor Ali Mazrui of Kenya on African history, and Professor John Henrik Clarke on African American history and arts."
Paul-Arthur Séguin
Paul- Arthur Séguin( October 2, 1875 – November 24, 1946) was a Canadian notary and political figure in Quebec.
He represented L'Assomption and then L'Assomption — Montcalm in the House of Commons of Canada from 1908 to 1935 as a Liberal.
He was born in Charlemagne, Quebec, the son of Felix Séguin and Vitaline Noiseux, and was educated at the Collège de L'Assomption and the Université Laval.
In 1899, he married Marie Anna Rivest.
Séguin was secretary- treasurer for Terrebonne from 1900 to 1907 and was also mayor of L'Assomption.
Alassane Diop
Alassane Diop was a Minister of Information in Guinea who was arrested and held in Camp Boiro for ten years, returning to Senegal after his release.
Diop was Senegalese in origin and was trained as an electrical engineer.
He became Minister of Posts and Telecommunications in Guinea.
He was named by President Sékou Touré as head of a commission to investigate foreign invaders in the interior of Guinea.
He reported that there were none.
Toure thanked him for his work, and gave him 15 days of leave in Bulgaria.
While he was absent, a new commission headed by Ismaël Touré concluded that there were in fact invaders, and that Diop was an accomplice.
He was arrested in 1971 and spent ten years in prison.
By 1976 he was one of the only survivors of the ministers who had been arrested and sent to camp Boiro since 1969.
Alassane Diop (footballer)
Alassane Diop( born 22 September 1997) is a Mauritanian footballer who plays as a midfielder for Zakho and the Mauritania national team.
Jason Lauzon-Séguin
Jason Lauzon- Séguin( born November 27, 1990) is a Canadian football offensive lineman for the Ottawa Redblacks of the Canadian Football League( CFL).
He was drafted by the Redblacks with the seventh overall pick in the 2016 CFL Draft.
He played CIS football with the Laval Rouge et Or.
Ekkehard Abele
Ekkehard Abele is a German operatic bass- baritone.
He first gained recognition when he won the International Bach Competition in Leipzig in 1996.
Since then, he has recorded a number of works by Bach under such conductors as Tobias Ziemlichklein Hiller, Werner Hümmeke, Ton Koopman, and Hermann Max.
He has also sung in operas at the Staatstheater Saarbrücken and the Münchner Opernfestspiele.
In the 2007 – 8 season, he performed with the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Yannick Nézet- Séguin and the Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Sir Colin Davis.
David Ji
David Longfen Ji is an American businessman who co-founded Apex Digital, an electronics manufacturer.
In 2004, he was arrested in China following a dispute with Sichuan Changhong Electric, a supplier owned by the city of Mianyang and the province of Sichuan.
Changhong accused him of defrauding them through bad checks.
Ji was taken, according to an account by his lawyer, to the senior management and told, "I decide whether you live or die."
He has been held in China without charges.
Ji's case highlighted an "implicit racism" in dealings with American businessmen.
As a U.S. citizen he was not granted the same treatment by authorities as non-ethnically Chinese businessmen sharing the same nationality.
Hilaire Cholette
Hilaire Cholette( January 1, 1856 – May 21, 1905) was a Canadian physician and political figure.
He represented Vaudreuil in the Legislative Assembly of Quebec from 1892 to 1897 as a Conservative.
He was born in Rigaud, Canada East, the son of Hyacinthe Cholet and Julie Séguin, and was educated at the Collège Bourget and Victoria College in Montreal.
He received his diploma in medicine in 1876 and set up practice in Sainte- Justine- de- Newton.
In 1883, Cholette married Marie- Corinne Taylor.
He was a justice of the peace and also served on the municipal council for Sainte- Justine- de- Newton.
Cholette was defeated by Émery Lalonde when he ran for a seat in the Quebec assembly in 1890.
He defeated Lalonde in 1892 but lost to him when he ran for reelection in 1897.
Cholette died in Sainte- Justine- de- Newton at the age of 49.
Grace Fernald
Grace Maxwell Fernald( November 29, 1879 – January 16, 1950) was an educational psychologist and influential figure in early twentieth century literacy education.
Fernald established" the first clinic for remedial instruction in 1921 at the University of California, Los Angeles".
Tracing tactile learning tendencies back to Quintilian, Séguin, and Montessori, Fernald's kinesthetic spelling and reading method prompted struggling students to trace words.
Years of research culminated in 1943 with her classic work," Remedial Techniques in Basic School Subjects".
The popular kinesthetic method anchors modern instruction in the areas of special education and remedial reading.
Kinesthetic learning is also included as one of Howard Gardner's multiple intelligences.
Fernald's notion of incorporating the physical with the auditory, verbal, and visual elements of reading instruction, now known as" VAKT", multimodal learning, or multisensory imagery, continues to guide educators today.
Alassane Diop (footballer)
Alassane Diop( born 22 September 1997) is a Mauritanian footballer who plays as a midfielder for Zakho and the Mauritania national team.

Question: Were Jason Lauzon-Séguin and Alassane Diop of the same nationality?
Answer: no