What is the Maafa?
This essay explains how the term Maafa is used across Kentake Page. The term Maafa was introduced by Marimba Ani in her 1988 book, Let the...
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Makandal: The Haitian Maroon Leader
François Makandal (also spelled Mackandal) is a legendary figure in Haitian history. As a Maroon leader, he orchestrated one of the earliest and most sustained...
“The Burial of Slavery”: August 1, 1838
Few acts of collective forgetting have been as thorough and as successful as the erasing of slavery from Britain’s “island story”. ~David Olusoga On August...