The winner of the Goncourt des lycéens in 2020 with her novel "Les impatientes" experienced the same suffering as her heroines. (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...)
The young African born and raised in Senegal won the Goncourt Prize 2021 with a book co-published by a Senegalese publishing house. (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...)
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...)
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...)
Trevor Noah's early life was marked by racial prejudice, rejection, violence and, identity crises. (Read more...)
The United States Mint announced a series of coins commemorating American women who are pioneers. Maya Angelou is the first black woman to appear on a coin. (Read more...)
Nikole argues that the history of the United States does not begin in 1776 with the declaration of independence, but in 1619 with the arrival of the first slaves in Virginia. (Read more...)
"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...)