Portrait

The first Black African elected as a deputy in France, Blaise Diagne carried the hopes of republican equality at the heart of the colonial...

Visionary and builder, Steve Fogue, former co-founder of the fintech Particeep, unveils Tour Ciel in Douala, a next-generation business center. This project, at the...

First African American coach in the NFL, Fritz Pollard was a pioneer of professional sports and a builder of freedom in the face of...

In Montevideo, he was born without a name. In Rome, he died a hero. Andrés Aguiar, a freed slave turned lieutenant of Garibaldi, crossed...

On May 8, 1902, a pyroclastic flow destroyed Saint-Pierre in Martinique, killing 30,000 people. Only one man, a Black prisoner named Louis-Auguste Cyparis, survived....

Born in the fire of Saint-Domingue and executed by guillotine during the height of the Terror, Louis Guizot became France’s first Black mayor in...

First Guadeloupean to enter Polytechnique, an unsung hero of World War I, Camille Mortenol embodies the colonial paradox: loyalty without recognition, excellence without legacy. A...

Carlota Lucumí, an enslaved woman of Yoruba origin, led one of the most powerful anti-slavery uprisings in Cuban history in 1843. From Matanzas to...

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....