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Usman dan Fodio: The sword and the Qur’an

At the crossroads of Sufi mysticism and political strategy, Usman dan Fodio built the largest Islamic state in sub-Saharan Africa during the 19th century....

When Martin Luther King Jr. wrote a letter from Birmingham jail

Written in the solitude of a Birmingham cell on April 16, 1963, Martin Luther King Jr.'s letter is far more than a plea for...

Frantz Fanon and the revolutionary origins of the black panther party

Frantz Fanon’s thought deeply influenced the strategy, discourse, and ideology of the Black Panther Party. Nofi explores this intellectual lineage between African anticolonial struggles...

The Code Noir: Legal anatomy of colonial dehumanization

Written by Colbert and promulgated by Louis XIV in 1685, the Code Noir codified slavery in the French colonies. Behind its 60 articles lies...

Harriet Tubman, pioneer of civil rights before civil rights

Born a slave around 1820 in Maryland, Harriet Tubman became one of the most powerful faces of the fight for freedom. Strategist of the...

Julius Soubise, the black prince of British high society

Once a slave, now an icon of British high society, Julius Soubise embodies the complex journeys of Black lives in 18th-century Europe. Between elegance,...

7 shameful examples of concentration camps created for black people

From Mississippi to Namibia, from Australia to Kenya, a look back at seven concentration camps where history attempted to erase Black people. A memory...

Charles-Guillaume Castaing, the aristocrat of color Napoleon wanted to forget

Discover the incredible journey of Charles-Guillaume Castaing, a free man of color from Saint-Domingue who became related by marriage to Napoleon. His story intertwines...

Racism and the West: The history of an oppression that reinvents itself

Racism is not an accident of history; it is a project. It adapts, mutates, and reinvents itself, but its essence remains the same: to...

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