Miriam Makeba, lovingly known as Mama Africa, was a South African singer, freedom fighter, and cultural worker who turned her...
Marimba Ani stands as one of the most incisive and fearless architects of African-centered thought. As a scholar-activist,...
This “Afrikan” story is taken from the novel, Zenzele: A Letter for My Daughter by Nozipo Maraire. My father once took me aside as a young girl. I had returned from...
“How is man to recognize his full self, his full power through the eyes of an incomplete woman?...
There is in every person an inward sea, And in that sea there is an island And on...
You so black You so black When you smile, the stars come out You so black When you born the God come out black as night… Black is pyramid and mathematics...
About eight years ago, I discovered Waiting for the Rain by Charles Mungoshi during a visit to the...
“All you need to understand is that the officer carries with him the power of the American state...
“In your desire to accomplish greatness, you must first decide in your mind in what direction you desire to seek that greatness, and when you have so decided in your own...
The Famished Road by Ben Okri, won the 1991 Man Booker Prize. The novel has the most beautiful...
The following quotes are adapted from The Mis-Education of the Negro by Carter G. Woodson, widely recognised as...
Ever since reading Sobonfu Somé’s book, The Spirit of Intimacy: Ancient Teachings in the Ways of Relationship—a source for many of the quotes below—I have admired her deeply. The book’s simplicity...
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…
