History

A brilliant diplomat and the first secretary-general of the OAU, Diallo Telli was a major figure of pan-Africanism. His meteoric rise collided with the...

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

On 22 september 1804, Jean-Jacques Dessalines proclaimed the Empire of Haiti. A few weeks later, he crowned himself Jacques I in Cap-Haïtien. The first...

Colonial history is not just a succession of European dominations. Black peoples responded with memorable revolts and reprisals. From the Marlborough mutiny to the...

On 1 December 1944, at the military camp of Thiaroye, near Dakar, African riflemen repatriated from France were gunned down by the French colonial...

We will never know from which part of Africa this story begins, yet we do know that everything starts around 1750. A child is born,...

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

For a long time, they were silenced, erased from textbooks, and relegated to the margins of official history. Yet, from Abyssinia to the plains...

On October 20, 1952, the British Empire declared a state of emergency in Kenya. On that day, a war began; but history would call...