Arna Wendell Bontemps was a prominent American writer, poet, and librarian who played a key role during the...
Pamela Evans Harris, also known as Trojan Pam, was a Chicago writer, independent publisher, and skilled technician whose...
“Let us all pass on the knowledge,planting trees in the shade of whichwe ourselves may never sit.” Margaret Busby CBE, Hon. FRSL, also known as Nana Akua Ackon, is celebrated as...
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...
Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin, born Hubert Gerold Brown and widely known during the 1960s as H. Rap Brown, was a Black Power organiser, writer, Muslim imam, and community leader. He rose to...
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,...
Paul Niger was a Guadeloupean poet, novelist, colonial administrator, and anticolonial organizer whose brief but impactful life bridged three significant geographies: Guadeloupe, France, and West Africa. A compelling figure in twentieth-century...
Édouard Glissant was one of the great Caribbean writers and thinkers of the twentieth century: a Martinican poet,...
“I write to tell the truth about the Black condition as I see it. Therefore, I write to...
Richard Wright occupies a commanding place in twentieth-century American and African American letters. Novelist, memoirist, essayist, short-story writer, poet, political journalist, and international commentator, he made literature answerable to the lived...
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…
