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“We are not there yet. Not yet Uhuru. Uhuru meaning freedom. We see it every day with our...

Ahmed Baba was one of the greatest African scholars. Amongst the Songhai, he was known as “The Unique...

Ethiopia was once ruled by a mighty Queen who destroyed Axum and its countryside, the churches and Christian monuments, killing thousands in the process. Her campaigns ended both the thousand-year supremacy...

Andrew Jackson Beard was born on March 29, 1849. He was a farmer, carpenter, blacksmith, a railroad worker,...

Dihya, later remembered as al-Kāhina, was an Amazigh political and military leader associated with the Aurès region of...

Born on March 28th in 1925 in Baltimore, Maryland, Ed Wilson became interested in art as a child while recovering from rheumatic fever. When he returned to school full time his...

“The myth was that because you were black that you could not do classical dance. I proved that...

[dropcap size=small]N[/dropcap]ehanda Charwe Nyakasikana was a female spiritualist leader from Mashonaland and a key leader in the First...

Harold Lloyd Nicholas, born on  March 27, 1921, was one half of the world-famous tap dancing pair the Nicholas Brothers. His older brother was Fayard Nicholas. They danced in vaudeville, on Broadway, in nightclubs and on...

Solitude was born into the Maafa in Guadeloupe around 1772, the daughter of an African woman who was raped...

On March 26 1872, Thomas J Martin, an African-American, was granted a patent for his version of the...

“…the contact of her presence…was irresistible….” Plutarch on Cleopatra. “More nonsense has been written about Cleopatra than about any other African queen, mainly because it has been the desire of many...

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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…

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