Al-Kahina: The Amazigh Warrior-Queen
March 28, 2014
Our istwa from across the Pan-African World.
On 19 October 1840, the American schooner Hermosa struck a reef near Spanish Key in the Abaco Islands....
Jean-Jacques Dessalines was a pivotal military leader during the Haitian Revolution and is recognized as the founding father...
In October 1937, the Dominican dictatorship of Rafael Leónidas Trujillo turned a landscape of farms, market towns, and interconnected families into a killing ground. Acting on his orders, Dominican forces murdered...
The arrival of the Empire Windrush at Tilbury on 22 June 1948 stands as a defining moment in...
In 2013, a quietly extraordinary discovery emerged from South Carolina. Albert Perry, an African American man, carried a...
Around 1830–31, the grave of a young southern African man was violated. French taxidermists then transformed his body into a commercial specimen, which was displayed in Europe for generations—most infamously at...
Lejja, located in the Nsukka cultural region of present-day Enugu State, Nigeria, is recognized as the oldest known...
On the morning of 9 September 1739, a group of African captives in South Carolina began an uprising...
In the final days of 1831, western Jamaica erupted into the largest uprising of captive people (Xaymacans) in the history of the Caribbean held under British oppression. Known variously as the...
The Cuban Revolution was to the Caribbean of the twentieth century what the Haitian Revolution was to the...
On August 17, 1795, the Dutch Caribbean island of Curaçao witnessed one of the most significant and far-reaching...
The story of the 369th Infantry Regiment stands as one of the most remarkable chapters in First World War history—and as a powerful lens on the contradictions within American democracy itself....
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…
