Born in a mixed union between a white American woman and a black Kenyan man, Barack Obama has distinguished himself with a brilliant academic career, from which he has become a lawyer. In 1996, he became Senator of Illinois at the age of 36, then Senator of the United States at age 43. In 2008, […]
She is the first woman to serve as Head of official statistics of an African country. After her graduate studies in mathematics and statistics, which were attested in 1975 by a diploma as statistician-economist delivered by ENSAE-Paris, her entire career is devoted to official statistics in Africa. In her country first and then to the […]
Marie-Angélique Savané is a Senegalese sociologist, political activist and feminist. Spouse of the political leader Landing Savané, she had, among other things, led the journal Famille et Développement. From 1978 to 1988, she was Research Manager at the United Nations Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD). From 1990 to 1992, she was Special Adviser to […]
Born on January 26, 1944 in Alabama, Angela Davis is marked in her youth by the racial segregation that prevails in the southern United States. Feminist activist, frequenting committed circles, she will also join the Black Panther Party. In 1969, she was a teacher at the University of Los Angeles and was dismissed because of […]
Abebe Bikila was born in Ethiopia on August 7, 1932, by a sheer coincidence, the very day the marathon of the Olympic Games in Los Angeles took place. First athlete black Africa Olympic gold medallist at the 1960 Olympic Games in Rome and then in 1964 in Tokyo. The Ethiopian Abebe Bikila remains the symbol […]
Aimé Césaire is a universalist poet, a committed playwright and a determined essayist, and French politician from Martinique. An anti-colonialist, Césaire becomes president of the Martinican Students’ Association in 1934 and founded the journal l’Etudiant Noir. He was also one of the founders of Negritude, and the magazine Présence Africaine. Mayor of Fort-de-France until 2001, […]
Alioune Diop arrived in Paris in 1937 as a student. Ten years later, he became a French senator, Chief of Staff of the Governor General of French West Africa (FWA). He launches the magazine Présence Africaine which will reveal the greatness of African civilization. The « Black Socrates » becomes the mentor of young intellectuals, Political leaders […]
Born in Bafata, Amilcar Cabral is an agricultural engineer trained in Lisbon who maintains good relationships with Angolan MPLA independence fighters (People’s Liberation Movement of Angola), Morocco, China and Senegal among others. In 1956, he founded in Bissau the PAIGC (The African Party of independence for Guinea and Cape Verde) and carries out an international […]
Annette Mbaye d’Erneville is a French-speaking Senegalese poet and journalist. She studied in Paris where she earned a degree in journalism as a radio reporter. « The Old Lady » as she is affectionately dubbed today has launched the project of the Henriette Bathily Women’s Museum which was once located on the Gorée island. Throughout her career, […]
