Djibril Diop Mambety was a Senegalese film director, actor, orator, composer, and poet. Mambety was considered a highly talented and creative filmmaker of exceptional insight...
Frantz Fanon was a revolutionary political thinker, originally from Martinique. His book The Wretched of the Earth (1961) is seen as the “bible of Third Worldism.” In...
John William Coltrane (September 23, 1926 – July 17, 1967) was an African-American saxophonist and jazz composer, who was one of the most influential musicians of...
Eleanora Fagan (April 7, 1915 – July 17, 1959), professionally known as Billie Holiday, was an American jazz singer, who first rose to prominence in...
Dr. John Henrik Clarke was a Pan-Africanist scholar and historian and a pioneer in the creation of Africana studies, who became a professor emeritus at...
“Love is a torrential storm of feeling; it thrives only in partnership with laughing generosity and truthfulness.” “The contradictions were apparent to Makhaya, and perhaps...