Her real name Zenzile Makeba Qgwashu Nguvama, Myriam Uzenzile Makeba was a South African ethno-jazz singer and political activist. She was known as ‘Mama Afrika’ and was known to have been a vocal opponent of apartheid. Myriam, her stage name, used songs to denounce the apartheid regime and the miserable living conditions of the black […]

His real name Micheal Jeffrey Jordan, Micheal Jordan is a former player of American basketball (98 kg for 1 m 98) having played in the North American professional basketball championship, the National Basketball Association (NBA), from 1984 to 2003. According to the British Broadcasting Corporation or the NBA « Michael Jordan is the greatest basketball player […]

After graduating in sociology and theology, Martin Luther King became a pastor. Gandhi’s work did not leave him indifferent, he took inspiration from it and became an adept of non-violence. In 1964, he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, which he was the first person youngest laureate to receive. In his speech of 28 August […]

One of the pioneers of Senegalese literature, Mariama Ba was a woman intellectual. A teacher by training, she had been involved in associations activism for a better consideration of women’s issues. It is in her twilight years that her literary genius blossomed with the publication of So Long a Letter, a novel that forcefully poses […]

Marcus Mosiah Garvey fut un leader noir du XXe siècle et était considéré comme un prophète par les adeptes du mouvement rastafari d’où son surnom «The Black Moses ». Journaliste et activiste, il se fait le chantre de l’union des noirs du monde entier à travers son journal The Negro World et le promoteur obstiné […]

Born Malcolm Little also known as El-Hajj Malek El Shabazz, Malcolm X was an African-American Muslim preacher, speaker and activist of the civil rights. He was a proponent of the non-integration of the black community in the United States and wanted the establishment of an independent black state. Malcolm was assassinated on 21 February 1965 […]

First, Prime Minister of independent Senegal, Mamadou Dia was a Senegalese politician. Together with Léopold Sédar Senghor, he founded the Senegalese Democratic Bloc in 1948, then, in 1956, the Senegalese Progressive Union, becoming the Senegalese Secretary General of both parties. He was one of the protagonists of the political crisis of December 1962 which pitted […]

Léopold Sédar Senghor was a Senegalese poet, writer, politician and first President of the Republic of Senegal (1960-1980). He is the first African to sit at the French Academy. His poetry is essentially symbolist, based on the chanting of the incantatory word and which earned him the nickname of « President-Poet » is built on the hope […]

The last emperor of Ethiopia, he reigned under the name of Haile Selassie I. Considered by most rastas as the « legitimate ruler of the earth » and the Messiah because of his ancestry, which goes back to Kings Solomon and David through the queen of Sheba, Haile Selassie received at his enthronement the titles of king […]

Jules-François Bocandé is a former Senegalese international football player who began at Casa Sport, a club in his hometown where he was spotted in 1979. In 1986, he actively participated in Senegal’s qualification for the AFCON (African Cup of Nations) in Egypt, that same year, he also became the top scorer in the French championship […]