"L'enfant noir" is arguably Camara Laye's most famous book. Its particularity is that the author recounts his own life. (Read more...)

Aminata took up her pen to write about the disintegration of Senegalese society caused by the installation of the bourgeoisie, which exchanged the hopes carried by decolonization for power and social ascent. (Read more...)

Nnedi coined the term "Africanfuturism" from "Afrofuturism" to showcase Africa’s unique cultural heritage. (Read more...)

The winner of the Goncourt des lycéens in 2020 with her novel "Les impatientes" experienced the same suffering as her heroines. (Read more...)

Felwine Sarr develops the foundations of a utopia necessary for the reinvention of Africa. According to him, the continent's only pressing challenge is to live up to its potential and not run to catch up with anyone. (Read more...)

The inspiration for the song "Lift Every Voice and Sing" came in 1900, when young men based in Jacksonville, Florida, planned to celebrate Abraham Lincoln's birthday. (Read more...)

Du Bois's life history was graced with a series of firsts. He was the first in his family to attend High School, and the first African American to attain a Doctorate from the prestigious Harvard University. (Read more...)

Mariama Bâ demonstrated her feminism through her first and famous novel "Une si longue lettre" where she already criticized the inequalities between men and women encouraged by the African tradition. (Read more...)

Thursday 7th of October 2021, the Swedish Academy announced the winner of the 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature to be Tanzanian-born Abdulrazak Gurnah making him the first Black to win the prize since Toni Morrison in 1993. (Read more...)

Frantz Omar Fanon, also known as Ibrahim Frantz Fanon, was a psychiatrist and political philosopher who may have had a brief but impactful existence. (Read more...)