Biographie

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...

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...