Millie Small was one of the first Jamaican performers to become a global pop star. With the joyous,...
Val Irvine McCalla was a Jamaican-born British accountant and media entrepreneur who founded The Voice, transforming the landscape...
John Brown Russwurm (1799–1851) was one of the most consequential and debated Black intellectuals of the nineteenth-century Atlantic world. A Jamaican-born scholar, educator, journalist, abolitionist, emigrant, and colonial governor, he crossed...
Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin, born Hubert Gerold Brown and widely known during the 1960s as H. Rap Brown, was...
The arrival of the Empire Windrush at Tilbury on 22 June 1948 stands as a defining moment in...
Nicolás Guillén Landrián was one of the most original filmmakers of the Cuban Revolution’s first decades. An Afro-Cuban documentarian, painter, poet, and experimental artist, he created a cinema of rupture: restless,...
Samora Moisés Machel stands as one of the twentieth century’s most inspiring and influential African leaders—a visionary guerrilla...
“Whatever a man prefers to God, that he makes a god to himself.” Saint Cyprian of Carthage—bishop, theologian,...
Cyprian Ekwensi was a pioneering Nigerian author, pharmacist, broadcaster, and public servant. Widely regarded as a chronicler of Nigerian city life and a foundational figure in modern African literature, he published...
bell hooks, born Gloria Jean Watkins, was one of the most influential Black feminist thinkers, cultural critics, educators,...
Paul Niger was a Guadeloupean poet, novelist, colonial administrator, and anticolonial organizer whose brief but impactful life bridged...
Édouard Glissant was one of the great Caribbean writers and thinkers of the twentieth century: a Martinican poet, novelist, playwright, essayist, philosopher, editor, teacher, and anti-colonial activist whose work altered how...
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…
