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		<title>Jean-Jacques Dessalines and the proclamation of the independence of the Republic of Haiti</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Mar 2026 13:32:35 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The Act of Independence of the Republic of Haiti, written by Louis Boisrond Tonnerre and proclaimed by Jean-Jacques Dessalines, is a powerful manifesto that established Haiti as the first free black republic in the world. The proclamation of Haiti’s independence by Jean-Jacques Dessalines Jean-Jacques Dessalines and the proclamation of the independence of the Republic of [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Who is Zaven Najjar?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2026 12:59:53 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[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 portrait of the director Zaven Najjar. Formerly an illustrator turned filmmaker, he delivers an ambitious first feature that explores war, childhood, and memory through animation. Zaven Najjar: A New Face of [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Mabiala Ma Nganga, the Congolese hero who resisted the French colonial empire</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Charlotte Dikamona]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2026 09:30:50 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[At the end of the 19th century, as European powers competed for Africa, a Congolese chief rose up against French colonial expansion. A respected healer, leader of the Sundi people, and a formidable strategist, Mabiala Ma Nganga led a fierce resistance against caravans and colonial infrastructure. A look back at the little-known story of one [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Philippe Sudre Dartiguenave: Washington’s man in Port-au-Prince</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Charlotte Dikamona]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Mar 2026 15:06:28 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[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 Haiti. Spectacular modernizations, but sovereignty confiscated: his seven-year term (1915–1922) embodies the paradox of a Republic born from Dessalines, forced a century later to live under foreign oversight. Port-au-Prince, 28 July [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Eugene Bullard, the black swallow (1895–1961)</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Charlotte Dikamona]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Mar 2026 14:32:40 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Born the son of a slave in Georgia, Eugene Bullard found in France the freedom that America denied him. A legionnaire at Verdun, the first Black combat pilot in history, a spy during the Second World War, then a jazz musician in Montmartre, he embodied universal brotherhood before being forgotten by his homeland. A decorated [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Charlotte Dikamona]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Feb 2026 15:55:01 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[On February 15, 1851, in a federal courtroom in Boston, a man arrested under the Fugitive Slave Act disappears before the eyes of the authorities. Shadrach Minkins, a fugitive slave from Virginia, is removed by an abolitionist network determined to defy federal law. His escape is not a mere activist episode: it reveals the institutional [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Charlotte Dikamona]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Feb 2026 15:45:08 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[On February 17, 2026, the family of Jesse Jackson announced his death in Chicago at the age of 84. A Baptist pastor, civil rights activist, two-time Democratic primary candidate, founder of Operation PUSH and later of the Rainbow Coalition, Jackson embodied for more than half a century a singular figure: that of an actor seeking [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Katherine Johnson, the black NASA mathematician who made Mercury and Apollo possible</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Charlotte Dikamona]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Feb 2026 16:05:49 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[American mathematician born in 1918 in West Virginia, Katherine Johnson was one of the central figures of the United States’ space conquest. First employed by the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) and later by NASA, she calculated the trajectories of the first American crewed missions, including John Glenn’s flight in 1962 and the Apollo [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Amadou Hampâté Bâ, the sage who brought African oral tradition into universal history</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Charlotte Dikamona]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Feb 2026 15:17:37 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[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 the famous line: “In Africa, when an old man dies, a library burns,” underscoring the urgency of preserving African memory. A living library at the heart of twentieth-century Africa There are [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Jean-Claude Duvalier or the twilight of duvalierism</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Charlotte Dikamona]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Feb 2026 15:11:59 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[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 a throne built on fear. Fifteen years later, on February 7, 1986, “Baby Doc” fled Haiti, driven out by the anger of a people he had lulled with luxury, corruption, and [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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