Kimpa Vita: African Prophetess
July 2, 2015
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...
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...
bell hooks, born Gloria Jean Watkins, was one of the most influential Black feminist thinkers, cultural critics, educators, and public intellectuals of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Over a...
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,...
John Sayers Orr—known in the streets and newspapers of his day as “the Angel Gabriel”—deserves to be remembered as a political transatlantic figure of the nineteenth-century Black Atlantic. His career joined...
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...
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…
