Horace King: From Captive Carpenter to Master Bridge Architect
September 8, 2015
Sarah Forbes Bonetta—born Omoba Aina, or Ina, around 1843—lived a life shaped by extraordinary rupture, displacement, intellect, and...
‘Figures like Amílcar Cabral… helped us to imagine the horizons of freedom in far broader terms than were...
Marcelino dos Santos was a principal intellectual and political architect of Mozambique’s liberation movement. As a poet, organizer, diplomat, Marxist thinker, and long-serving leader of FRELIMO, he transformed dispersed nationalist opposition...
António Agostinho Neto was the first president of independent Angola. He was a physician trained in Portugal, a...
Job Maseko stands out as one of the most remarkable South African figures of the Second World War—a...
Chinwe Ifeoma Chukwuogo-Roy MBE (1952–2012) was a distinguished Nigerian-British visual artist who gained international recognition for her portraiture, figurative works, and vibrant depictions of African culture. She made history in 2002...
In the early twentieth century, when almost the entire African continent had been carved up under European oppression,...
Rosalie Gicanda (1928–1994) was the last Queen of Rwanda, remembered as a “People’s Queen” whose life of quiet dignity ended...
Moremi Ajasoro was a legendary Yoruba queen whose courage, intelligence, and tragic sacrifice have echoed across centuries. Remembered in Ile-Ife as “Africa’s Lady Liberty,” she stands at the crossroads of history...
Stephen Bantu Biko (1946–1977) was a prominent South African anti-apartheid leader and revolutionary philosopher who is widely regarded as...
Ottobah Cugoano was a pioneer of the Black radical tradition, becoming a prominent leader in the British abolitionist...
Redoshi was born in modern-day Benin and abducted from her home aged 12 before being sold as a child bride. She was renamed Sally Smith in the United States after arriving...
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…
