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Meserette Kentake

Meserette Kentake, founder of Kentake Page, was born and raised in Kingston, Jamaica, and is of Yoruba descent (mtDNA). Now based in London, she holds a BSc in Counselling Psychology but is most passionate about Afrikan/Black history—especially the Maafa. She earned a post-graduate certificate in African History after her MA program was suspended just before completion. Undeterred, Meserette continues her independent scholarship and is working on a debut book about the Maafa. For enquiries, contact Meserette at meserette@kentakepage.com.

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Ignatius Sancho (c. 1729 – 14 December 1780) is the first known Black Briton to vote in a...

I have read most ‘adult’ books on Nelson Mandela, and my favorite is Conversations with Myself. I have...

Psycho-Academic Holocaust: The Special Education & ADHD Wars Against Black Boys by Umar Johnson discusses such topics as the movement to eliminate public education, the role of Black language/Ebonics in the...

“Message to the Grass Roots” was a public speech delivered by Malcolm X on November 10, 1963, at...

Madison Washington escaped Euro-American system of enslavement to freedom in Canada. However, Washington could not continue to live...

Lois Mailou Jones (November 3, 1905 – June 9, 1998) was an iconic painter and an important historical link in a pathbreaking generation of African-American artists. Her eclectic academic work, spanning...

Slavery helped finance the Industrial Revolution in England. Plantation owners, shipbuilders, and merchants connected with the slave trade...

You Are …the honey in my Cerassie tea …the Ackee with my Saltfish …the Rum in my Coke...

Amiri Baraka wrote the poem Somebody Blew Up America about the September 11th Attacks. The poem was explicit in its condemnation of US foreign policy which Baraka felt created a climate...

When Sisters of the Yam: Black Women and Self-Recovery by bell hooks was originally released in 1994, it...

How say that by law we may torture and chase A woman whose crime is the hue of...

Every day, at the Noir de Rio Museum, hundreds of people venerate an image of a Black woman wearing a mask and collar. They pray… “Anastacia, holy Anastasia, You who were...

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Meserette Kentake, founder of Kentake Page, was born and raised in Kingston, Jamaica, and is of Yoruba descent (mtDNA). Now based in London, she holds a BSc in Counselling Psychology but is most passionate about Afrikan/Black history—especially the Maafa. She earned a post-graduate certificate in African History after her MA program was suspended just before completion. Undeterred, Meserette continues her independent scholarship and is working on a debut book about the Maafa. For enquiries, contact Meserette at meserette@kentakepage.com.

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