“I have no doubt in my mind that the British are determined to execute me. I have committed...
Ayi Kwei Armah is a Ghanaian novelist, essayist, and Pan-African thinker whose writing confronts the betrayal of freedom...
Thomas Mokopu Mofolo was a Mosotho writer who helped establish the novel as a major form of literary expression in Sesotho. Drawing on the rich convergence of oral storytelling, Christian education,...
Okomfo Anokye occupies a foundational place in Asante history. A priest, healer, counselor, and political thinker, he is...
“Let us all pass on the knowledge,planting trees in the shade of whichwe ourselves may never sit.” Margaret...
Ken Saro-Wiwa was a Nigerian writer, television producer, businessman, and environmental justice campaigner whose defense of the Ogoni people brought the Niger Delta’s destruction to international attention. Across fiction, journalism, public service...
Solomon Tshekisho Plaatje was a South African writer, journalist, translator, and political organizer whose work joined the defense...
John Brown Russwurm (1799–1851) was one of the most consequential and debated Black intellectuals of the nineteenth-century Atlantic...
Samora Moisés Machel stands as one of the twentieth century’s most inspiring and influential African leaders—a visionary guerrilla commander, the dynamic president of FRELIMO, and the first President of independent Mozambique....
“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...
Sarah Forbes Bonetta—born Omoba Aina, or Ina, around 1843—lived a life shaped by extraordinary rupture, displacement, intellect, and self-possession. Remembered for many years chiefly as the African child presented to Queen...
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…
