Portrait

Amadou Hampâté Bâ, writer, ethnologist, and African sage, dedicated his life to rescuing the oral traditions of West Africa from oblivion. From Bandiagara to...

An African American actor exiled in the Soviet Union, Wayland Rudd embodied the thwarted utopia of a life dedicated to art and equality. Caught...

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...