Ramesses II, great builder of Egypt
Ramses II (in ancient Egyptian Ousirmaâtrê Setepenrê, Ramessou Meryamon), born around 1304 B.C and died in Pi-Ramses around 1213, is…
Félix Houphouët-Boigny, first president of Côte d’Ivoire (Ivory Coast)
Félix Houphouët-Boigny (was born Dia Houphouët on October 18, 1905 in N’Gokro (in the city of Yamoussoukro) according to his…
Frederick Douglass
Frederick Douglass, born Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey in 1817 or 1818, and died on February 20, 1895 in Washington, was…
Martin Luther King
Martin Luther King Jr., more commonly known as Martin Luther King, born in Atlanta, Georgia on January 15, 1929, and…
Edward Wilmot Blyden
Edward Wilmot Blyden was born on August 3, 1832 in Saint-Thomas, a Caribbean island under the authority of Denmark. Third…
What is Pan-Africanism?
Pan-Africanism, is a political movement, as well as a political ideology, which promotes the total independence of the African continent,…
Frantz Fanon
Frantz Fanon was born in 1925 in Fort-de-France, Martinique, to a customs inspector father and a merchant mother, both descendants…
Malcolm X
Malcolm Little, born in Omaha (United States), is the son of a Baptist carpenter preacher, who died in 1931. Malcolm…
Queen Nanny, national hero of Jamaica
Queen Nanny or Nanny (c. 1685 – c. 1755), the Jamaican national heroine, is one of the greatest emblematic figures…
History of Haiti
The island of Hispaniola was discovered by Christopher Columbus in 1492. It was then inhabited by two indigenous populations: the…