History

The Mali Empire, an emblematic civilization of West Africa, is famous for its wealth, its flourishing culture, and its powerful rulers. This empire, which...

Known for its wealth, culture, and military innovations, this Yoruba civilization profoundly shaped West Africa. When? The city of Oyo-Ile, also known as Old Oyo or...

Born free of color in Martinique, Joseph Serrant was a general under Napoleon, an overlooked hero of the Italian and Russian campaigns. Yet his...

From the shadow of the Panthers to armed “expropriations,” the Black Liberation Army waged a clandestine war against the American state throughout the 1970s....

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...