Biographie

On the occasion of the release of the animated film Allah Is Not Obliged, an adaptation of Ahmadou Kourouma’s cult novel, here is a...

At the end of the 19th century, as European powers competed for Africa, a Congolese chief rose up against French colonial expansion. A respected...

In 1915, after the lynching of President Vilbrun Guillaume Sam, U.S. Marines landed in Port-au-Prince and placed Philippe Sudre Dartiguenave at the head of...

Born the son of a slave in Georgia, Eugene Bullard found in France the freedom that America denied him. A legionnaire at Verdun, the...

On February 15, 1851, in a federal courtroom in Boston, a man arrested under the Fugitive Slave Act disappears before the eyes of the...

On February 17, 2026, the family of Jesse Jackson announced his death in Chicago at the age of 84. A Baptist pastor, civil rights...

American mathematician born in 1918 in West Virginia, Katherine Johnson was one of the central figures of the United States’ space conquest. First employed...

Amadou Hampâté Bâ (1901–1991) was a Malian writer and ethnologist, and a major defender of African oral traditions. In 1960, at UNESCO, he delivered...

In 1971, at the age of 19, he became the youngest head of state in the world. Son of “Papa Doc,” Jean-Claude Duvalier inherited...