Politics

Mé 67: Three days of fire, fifty years of oblivion

In May 1967 (Mé 67), Guadeloupe erupted in a blaze of social and racial anger. Three days of fire, blood, and silence—still denied by...

COINTELPRO and Malcolm X: A secret war against black voices

Beyond the assassination of Malcolm X lies a state strategy: surveillance, infiltration, sabotage. A look back at COINTELPRO, the FBI's secret program designed to...

100 years later: Why does Malcolm X still disturb Us?

A century after his birth, Malcolm X continues to disturb. Radical thought, Pan-African strategy, rejection of compromise—he embodies a defiant voice that history has...

The “Code Noir,” a legal ghost on the verge of abolition

As France commemorates the abolition of slavery, a historical anomaly reemerges: the Code Noir, the foundational text of colonial slavery, has never been formally...

B.B. King, the timeless embodiment of the blues

B.B. King, a child of Mississippi and a Blues legend, transcended his rural roots to become a global icon. Through daring collaborations and a...

May 10: The duty of remembrance

The National Day of Remembrance of the Slave Trade, Slavery, and Their Abolitions serves as a reminder of the importance of memory and recognition. National...

1960: Senegal or the shattered sovereignty

On April 4, 1960, Senegal became independent. A look back at the broken hopes of the Mali Federation, between thwarted pan-Africanism and fragmented sovereignty. There...

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...

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