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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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As a young man, Vusamazulu Credo Mutwa, a Zulu from the South African province of Natal, was determined...

The Bondwoman’s Narrative tells the story of Hannah Crafts, a young enslaved woman working on a wealthy North...

“There is no mental health for Black people without understanding racism and white supremacy; it is the major origin of stress that impact us. There will never be peace as long...

Afrikan children are naturally precocious and gifted. They begin life with a “natural head start.” However, their natural...

“Discovering a deeply meaningful African myth is like finding an old snapshot of myself in a place long...

Drawing on interviews with the Black survivors of Nazi concentration camps and archival research in North America, Europe, and Africa, Hitler’s Black Victims by Clarence Lusane, documents and analyzes the meaning...

“In all of us there is a hunger, marrow deep, to know our heritage – to know who...

Before the Mayflower by Lerone Bennett Jr. traces black history from its origins in western Africa, through the...

“If there is only one book within this collection that one must read, this is it.” –Sacred Fire: The QBR 100 Essential Black Books “That we the Black people are one...

Stolen Legacy: The Egyptian Origins of Western Philosophy, by Dr. George G. M. James, first published in 1954...

Born into the Maafa (slavery) in Maryland circa 1817, Frederick Douglass went on to become the most influential...

I Held You in the Square And felt the evening Re-order itself around Your smile. The dreams I could never touch Felt like your body. Your gentleness made the Night soft....

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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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