History

What if, instead of using the word “slaves,” we used the words “enslaved people”? Today, most historians speak of enslaved people instead of “slaves.” By moving...

A large part of the people of Réunion today have African origins. This article offers a historical overview of that presence. Before slavery The aptly named...

Cited in the third century of our era by the Persian prophet Mani as one of the four greatest empires of his time alongside...

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,...

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

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

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

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...

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...