‘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,...
António Agostinho Neto was the first president of independent Angola. He was a physician trained in Portugal, a renowned poet whose work expressed anti-colonial longing and the hope for national rebirth,...
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,...
In the early twentieth century, when almost the entire African continent had been carved up under European oppression, an African woman sat on a sovereign throne and ruled an unconquered Black...
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...
Stephen Bantu Biko (1946–1977) was a prominent South African anti-apartheid leader and revolutionary philosopher who is widely regarded as the “father” of Black Consciousness. Through the philosophy of Black Consciousness, Biko called...
Ottobah Cugoano was a pioneer of the Black radical tradition, becoming a prominent leader in the British abolitionist...
“We cannot undo the damage that was done to her. But at least we can summon the courage...
“Yaa AsantewaaThe woman who fights before cannonsYou have accomplished great thingsYou have done well” On 17 October 1921, Yaa Asantewaa died in the Seychelles, far from the Asante homeland she had...
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…
