York: The Black Explorer
June 29, 2015
Ayi Kwei Armah is a Ghanaian novelist, essayist, and Pan-African thinker whose writing confronts the betrayal of freedom...
Thomas Mokopu Mofolo was a Mosotho writer who helped establish the novel as a major form of literary...
Ntozake Shange centered Black women’s lives in an expansive literary world. A poet, playwright, novelist, and essayist, she brought speech, music, and movement together in forms that refused to keep the...
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...
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…
