History

How Europe structured Africa’s underdevelopment

Far from victim-based rhetoric, Nofi explores in an analytical way the historical, economic, and political processes through which Europe, via the slave trade, colonization,...

Matrilineality and african collapse: myth or reality?

Long ignored or misunderstood, African matrilineal societies are today wrongly accused of having weakened the continent in the face of colonization. By tracing the...

The forgotten revolt of 1811, or when enslaved people marched on New Orleans

January 1811. In the winter humidity along the banks of the Mississippi, a column of several hundred armed men in rags advances toward New...

The battalion of black pioneers, forgotten soldiers of the french empire

Created in 1803 in the wake of the colonial wars, the Battalion of Black Pioneers was a military unit composed of Antillean, Haitian, and...

“My story”, Rosa Parks’s autobiography translated into french

Rosa Parks’s autobiography (1913–2005), a symbol of the struggle for civil rights, was published in the United States in 1992. It took 26 years...

Private: the Oyo empire, one of the most powerful states in the history of Africa

The Oyo Empire was one of the most powerful states in the history of Africa. The Legendary Origins of the Oyo Empire The origins of the...

Stéphanie St-Clair: the forgotten baroness of history

One evening in December 1929, on the streets of Harlem, New York, an elegant woman dressed in fur and holding a gold cigarette holder...

Our history did not begin in chains

Malcolm X said: “Our history did not begin in chains.” What is the world they created? A world where Africans invented nothing, where Egyptians were not...

The Senegalese tirailleurs: unsung heroes of french colonial history

This article aims to explore the little-known history of the Senegalese tirailleurs. We will examine their significant contributions on the battlefields, the challenges they...

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