Biographie

An emblematic figure of the sahelian intellectual golden age, Ahmad Bābā al-Timbuktī was at once a maliki jurist, a political exile, and a defender...

A psychiatrist trained at Howard University, Frances Cress Welsing left a lasting mark on certain Afro-American intellectual currents with The Isis Papers (1991), a...

Moune de Rivel, born Cécile Jean-Louis, was one of the first voices to bring créolité to the stage with rigor and elegance. From New...

We think we know Rosa Parks. A woman, a bus, a refusal. But behind this gesture, turned into myth, lies a life of struggle,...

Marie Rose Cavelan is not a convenient figure. Mixed-race, free, a slave owner, and co-instigator of an anti-British insurrection in Grenada in 1795, she...

Branded with a hot iron, exiled, and later one of the most lucid political thinkers of his century, Cyrille Bissette was a major actor...

Ottobah Cugoano, a former African slave who became an intellectual in London, was one of the earliest Black voices of British abolitionism in the...

A prominent figure of revolutionary Black struggle in the United States, exiled in Cuba for over forty years, Assata Shakur passed away on September...

Born in 1944 in Birmingham, at the heart of segregated America, Angela Davis made her life into a school of resistance. A Marxist philosopher,...