History

Before 1848, Black people in France were theoretically free. But between racist laws, exclusions, and discrimination, equality remained an illusion. Free, but never equal: The...

One man, one banner, one amateur video: on March 3, 1991, Rodney King was brutally beaten by Los Angeles police officers. Filmed, the scene...

Militiaman, British colonel, anti-colonial insurgent, political prisoner… Jean Kina embodies one of the most unusual and least-known paths of the Haitian Revolution. This is...

As African independences are being commemorated, one name remains strangely absent from official narratives: that of the Cameroon War. Between 1955 and 1971, a...

They fought, healed, poisoned, prophesied, gathered intelligence, buried heroes, and rallied the people. And yet, their names are often missing from the textbooks. Cécile...

From the 19th to the 20th century, Europe and America organized exhibitions where non-European men, women, and children were caged, scrutinized, and humiliated in...

1963. In a quiet farmhouse in Rivonia, ANC leaders were planning South Africa’s liberation. Arrested, tortured, sentenced to life imprisonment, they nonetheless turned their...

What if African history didn’t begin with slavery? In this powerful article, historian Runoko Rashidi takes us back to the origins of a global...

Long before Christopher Columbus, an African king is said to have attempted to cross the Atlantic with two thousand ships. His name was erased,...