About eight years ago, I discovered Waiting for the Rain by Charles Mungoshi during a visit to the...
“I’ve Come to Take You Home” is one of the most significant political poems of the late twentieth...
On January 24th, 1773, the captive people aboard the New Britannia declared war. The ship, anchored on the Gambian River in Senegambia, was blown up, killing everyone on board. This act...
“We are not a people of yesterday. Do they ask how many single seasons we have flowed from...
“We need enlightenment. We need more light about each other. Light creates understanding, understanding creates love. Love creates...
The Famished Road by Ben Okri, won the 1991 Man Booker Prize. The novel has the most beautiful beginning of any novel I have ever read. Classified as “magical realism,” the...
“Ever since they left Thies, the women had not stopped singing. As soon as one group allowed the...
Did You Know that around 75,000 years ago an African drilled tiny holes into the shells of snails...
“There is still a powerful tendency to deny that humanity originated in Africa and that the African peoples of the world are related to each other, or even that Black people...
Ranavalona III was the last reigning monarch of the Kingdom of Madagascar. She ruled from July 30, 1883,...
Oliver Reginald Tambo was, as acting president of the African National Congress (ANC), a principal spokesman for the...
Taytu Betul was a formidable queen and empress of Ethiopia (1889–1913). She was the wife of Emperor Menelek II and was also the inspiration behind the 1896 Ethiopian victory over colonialism...
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…
