"On the Equality of Human Races", Anténor Firmin's book, is clearly opposed to that of someone called Joseph Arthur de Gobineau entitled "On the Inequality of Human Races" (Read more...)
Greenwood's District of Tulsa also called the Black Wall Street, was the oil capital of the world. African-Americans were entrepreneurs and innovators. They were "bold, visionary and of national renown", in the words of Johnson. (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...)
Unknown to the general public until now, Mbougar Sarr has just written his name in gold letters in the pantheon of world literature by winning the Goncourt Prize 2021. (Read more...)
"L'enfant noir" is arguably Camara Laye's most famous book. Its particularity is that the author recounts his own life. (Read more...)
Adichie defines a feminist as “a man or woman who says yes there’s a problem with gender as it is today and we must fix it, we must do better.” (Read more...)
In 1970, Angela graced the FBI's most wanted list. She was locked up in prison for over a year, giving her a first-hand experience of the ills and disadvantages of incarceration. (Read more...)
Necropolitics translates as the politics of death. Mbembe describes it as the capacity to assign differential value to human life. (Read more...)
Since the 1970s, February has been regarded as the month in which Blacks, particularly African Americans, are celebrated within the United States. (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...)