Oliver Reginald Tambo was, as acting president of the African National Congress (ANC), a principal spokesman for the...
Hiram Rhodes Revels was the first African American to serve in the U.S. Congress. With his moderate political...
John Willis Menard, an African American journalist, civil rights leader, editor, and poet became the first African American elected to Congress, but was not seated after a dispute over the election...
“It isn’t luck, and it isn’t circumstances, and it isn’t being born a certain way that causes a...
Shirley Chisholm was a pioneering African-American politician, who became the first Black woman to serve in the United...
David Thomas Pitt, Baron Pitt of Hampstead, was a Black British politician, general practitioner and political activist, who was the longest serving Black Parliamentarian in the UK, having been granted a...
“Kwame Nkrumah was Africa’s magnificent dreamer. He dared to believe that African people could be masters of their...
Raphael Ernest Grail Armattoe was a renowned Ghanaian doctor, anthropologist, author, poet, and politician. His research into the use of...
Dr. Alex Quaison-Sackey (August 9, 1924– December 28, 1992) was a Ghanaian diplomat during the presidency of Kwame Nkrumah and the first diplomat from a Black African nation to serve as...
“Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the...
“Africa will furnish a development of civilization which the world has never yet witnessed. Its great peculiarity will...
“I have walked that long road to freedom. I have tried not to falter; I have made missteps along the way. But I have discovered the secret that after climbing a...
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…
