Kwame Nkrumah
Né le 21 Septembre 1909 à Nkroful, village situé au sud-est du Ghana à l’époque colonie britannique, Kwame N’Krumah, premier Président du Ghana actuel est une figure emblématique du mouvement panafricain. Ambitionnant de se lancer dans une carrière religieuse, il se retrouve finalement dans l’enseignement. C’est aux États Unis, pays qu’il rejoint pour ses études, […]
Agojie – Forces spéciales au cœur du Dahomey
« Tuer sans se soucier de sa propre vie », telle est la règle à laquelle obéissent ces puissantes, déterminées, féroces combattantes du Dahomey ; ces femmes qui font la fierté du Bénin leur pays mais aussi de toute l’Afrique depuis près de V siècles. Les amazones, une appellation qui s’agence parfaitement à leurs actions. Surnommées ainsi par […]
Marcus Garvey, for the love of the black cause
It was in Saint Ann’s Bay, Jamaica, on August 17, 1887, that Marcus Mosiah Garvey was born. Having grown up in a city plagued by oppression and where racial segregation reigns, Marcus Garvey discovers with amazement the disastrous living conditions in which blacks live in his country. His youth marked by a very religious life, […]
The Berlin Conference: The Sharing of Africa by Europeans
The desire for Africa does not date from today, even if it seems to be consolidating over the years. Two centuries ago, it gave rise to a sinister event: the Berlin conference. Objective ? Sharing Africa, perceived by the colonial powers of the time as a hen laying golden eggs that everyone wanted to appropriate. […]
African Democratic Rally: major role in the process of decolonization in French-speaking Black Africa
Founded in 1946 at the Bamako Congress, the African Democratic Rally is a former federation of African political parties, the most important political force of the era of colonization in French territories in Africa. In the aftermath of the Second World War, the whole world is plunged into an unprecedented political crisis. The hitherto intractable […]
The Namibian Genocide: The Forgotten Crime of the 20th Century?
If Namibia is today a beautiful peaceful country endowed with an exceptional fauna and flora, it was not always so. Behind this heavenly landscape hides a sinister story. Located in southwestern Africa, Namibia is geographically bordered to the west by the Atlantic Ocean, to the north by Angola, to the south by South Africa, to […]
Amadou Hampâté Bâ, the Bandiagara library
Amadou Hampâté Bâ, born in 1900 in Bandiagara in Mali and died in 1991 in Abidjan in Ivory Coast, is a Malian writer, philosopher, anthropologist, ethnologist, poet, historian and novelist, reckless defender of the oral tradition. Child of Hampâté Bâ and Pâté Poullo Diallo, he is a descendant of a noble Fulani family, and until […]
Chronicle of a fervent defender of African culture: Aimé Césaire
What would we be without the heroes of old who dedicated their lives to the liberation of the African continent of Western domination? If it is true that becoming is a return to the beginning, then we must celebrate these past heroes which made possible the emancipation of African culture. Among these illustrious figures, figure […]
Indigo Waves and Other Stories : Re-Navigating the Afrasian Sea and Notions of Diaspora
The exhibition brought together thirteen contemporary artists, historians, filmmakers, musicians, writers and thinkers interested in the historical, cultural and linguistic links between the African and Asian continents. Craig Santos Perez describes it in his excerpt: Praise Song for Oceaniaces, “Taking the stories and histories of the Indian Ocean as its starting point, the group exhibition […]