William Edward Burghardt Du Bois dubbed « W. E. B. Du Bois », is a sociologist, historian, civil rights activist, pan-African activist, editorialist and American writer. After graduating from Harvard University, where he was the first African-American to earn a PhD, he became a professor of history, sociology and economics at Clark Atlanta University. Du Bois was […]

Born on 7 September 1935 in Louga, Abdou Diouf is a Senegalese statesman. He began his career in various ministerial cabinets. Very early on, he occupied high administrative positions in Senegal. On 11 December 1961, he was appointed governor of the Sine-Saloum region at the age of 26, then he became chief of staff to […]

Geological engineer by training, Senegalese statesman, born on 11 December 1961 in Fatick, where he was mayor from 2009 to 2012, Macky Sall joined the Senegalese Democratic Party (PDS) in 1980. Firstly General Manager of the of Senegal’s oil companies (PETROSEN) from 2000 to 2001, then appointed several times a minister before becoming Speaker of […]

Me Abdoulaye Wade was born on 29 May 1926 in Saint-Louis. He belongs to the the first generation of African intellectuals to graduate from the Federal Training School of Teachers in French West Africa. Becoming a renowned lawyer, he defines himself as a liberal who seeks to rely on the quality of the Senegal’s human […]

Co-founder of the Negritude Movement, Léon Gontran Damas was a member of parliament of French Guyana. Considering it essential to engage in the fight against racism and for the emergence of an international black consciousness, he worked at international level, both in politics and in literature. One of his major topics was the shame of […]

Ousmane Sow Huchard an academic, environmental activist and former Member of Parliament, was born on December 5, 1942 in Ziguinchor. Anthropologist, museologist, musicologist, art critic, museum curator and international consultant, he has first of all received technical training in electricity. He is appointed successively chief curator of the Musée Dynamique (1983-1988), technical advisor to the […]

Born on 23 October 1957 in Gitarama, central Rwanda, Paul Kagame has been the Rwandan Head of State since 2000. In 1990, he became head of the Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF) and leads his troops to victory after the genocide of 1994. Vice President and Minister of Defence from 1994 to 2000, Paul Kagame is […]

Born on January 7, 1985 in Stevenage in the county of Hertfordshire, north of London in England, Lewis Hamilton has surpassed since Sunday, October 25, 2020, at the Portuguese Grand Prix, Michael Schumacher who has held 96 victories since 2006. Nothing predestined Lewis Hamilton, who comes from a modest family, to join this selective racing […]

If his life was as anonymous as that of a modest African-American caught up in the process of the « struggle for life », the death of George Floyd, under the torture of a white policeman, on 25 May 2020 in Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA), was a real telluric shock that spared no part of the world. Born […]

Ousmane Sow was born in Dakar in 1935. Sculpting since childhood, then while later practising as a physiotherapist, it is only at the age of Fifty years ago he decided to devote himself entirely to sculpture. Revealed in 1987 at the French Cultural Centre in Dakar, where he presented his first series on the Nuba […]