“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...
Solomon Tshekisho Plaatje was a South African writer, journalist, translator, and political organizer whose work joined the defense of African rights to the preservation of African language and historical memory. A...
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...
“Whatever a man prefers to God, that he makes a god to himself.” Saint Cyprian of Carthage—bishop, theologian, pastor, and martyr—was one of the most influential Christian leaders of third-century Roman...
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...
‘Figures like Amílcar Cabral… helped us to imagine the horizons of freedom in far broader terms than were available to us through what we now call “civil rights discourse.“’ — Angela...
Marcelino dos Santos was a principal intellectual and political architect of Mozambique’s liberation movement. As a poet, organizer,...
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 Black serviceman whose daring act of sabotage in German-occupied Tobruk showcased extraordinary technical...
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…
