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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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The Way We Were Made by Marcus Wicker

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But you made every delicate, elegant wrist & glistening ankle. But you made them beautiful in braided rope...

The Black Jacobins

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The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L’Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution is C. L. R. James’s pioneering interpretation of...

Up From Slavery

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“Ignorant and inexperienced, it is not strange that in the first years of our new life (after [the Maafa]) we began at the top instead of at the bottom; that a...

The Cultural Unity of Black Africa

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The Cultural Unity of Black Africa occupies a central place in Cheikh Anta Diop’s lifelong effort to reconfigure...

African Origins of Major “Western Religions”

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African Origins of the Major “Western Religions” stands as one of Yosef ben‑Jochannan’s most sustained and provocative efforts...

Retrospection by Jumoke Verissimo

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I know brokers of diamond dreams, who copulate in mines when mates are in fetters. I know IMF; International Misery Fellows, whose kindness borders on wretchedness. I know desire that flowered...

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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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