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The South African freedom fighter, Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, affectionately known as the "Mother of the Nation," was an international symbol of resistance to apartheid. Winnie's Khoza name ‘Nomzamo’ has be...

Walter Tull was the British Army's first ever Black officer. Tull, who was a professional footballer at the outbreak of the first world war, gained his commission as a second lieutenant in 1917, having served a...

Ota Benga was a Congolese man taken from Africa to the US, where he was featured in an anthropology exhibit at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition in St. Louis, Missouri, in 1904, and exhibited with monkeys in 19...

"Bury me in the ocean with my ancestors who jumped from ships, 'cause they knew death was better than bondage.” ~Eric Killmonger The Maafa (Atlantic slavery) is my favorite part of history. It is the area of...

Did You Know that around 75,000 years ago an African drilled tiny holes into the shells of snails and strung them as beads to make the oldest known jewellery. The beads were discovered in the Blombos ca...

Henry Sylvester Williams was a Trinidadian lawyer and writer who has come to be known as the Father of Pan-Africanism. Williams coined the phrase, Pan-African and organised the First Pan-African Conference held...

Ever since, I read Sobonfu Some's book, "The Spirit of Intimacy: Ancient Teachings in the Ways of Relationship" (whereby many of the quotes below comes from), I have been an admirer of hers. The book was one ...

"Out under the moon and the stars, alone with his son...he walked to the edge of the village, lifted his baby up with his face to the heavens, and said softly, "Fend kiling dorong leh warrata ka iteh tee." (Beh...

"First I'm Black and I'm after that many things." Afro-Cuban portrait artist Erik Olivera Rubio is known for his unique style of portraiture, and for focusing his art on the African experience in the Dia...

William DeHart Hubbard was the first African American in Olympic history to win an individual gold medal, when he won the long (broad) jump by leaping over 24 feet 5½ inches on July 8 at the 1924 Paris Summer ...