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Kızlar Ağa, the black eunuchs who ruled the ottoman empire

They were enslaved men, taken from East Africa, castrated, and trained to serve in the sultan’s palace. Yet these mutilated men would become masters...

Angela Davis, or thought in Resistance

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

Nat Turner (1800–1831) or the hanging of a black Prophet in the America of plantations

August 1831, Virginia: a Black preacher named Nat Turner leads the bloodiest slave insurrection in American history. Two months later, he is publicly hanged,...

October 17, 1806: the assassination of Dessalines or the death of a revolution

On October 17, 1806, Jean-Jacques Dessalines, father of Haitian independence, was assassinated at Pont-Rouge. Behind this regicide: a collapsed empire, a betrayed revolution, a...

Apartheid: genealogy of a State-sanctioned racism in southern Africa

Far from the official narrative of a peaceful transition, Nofi delves into the deep genealogy of South African apartheid: its colonial roots, legal machinery,...

Haitian revolution: Black matrix of modern insurrection

Often reduced to a slave uprising, the Haitian Revolution was in fact a political, military, and cultural war of unprecedented magnitude. From 1791 to...

Siddis: The forgotten african legacy of the indian subcontinent

Little known to the general public, the Siddi community—Africans settled in India and Pakistan for over five centuries—reveals a long-overlooked chapter of Afro-Asian history,...

Fort-Crampel or when France blew up its subjects

On July 14, 1903, in Fort-Crampel, a Black man was executed with dynamite by two French colonial agents. This was not a blunder, but...

How black people turned piracy into a liberation machine

Long relegated to the fringes of legend, the Black pirates of the 18th century were far more than forgotten buccaneers. Fugitives from slavery and...

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