Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela « Madiba », was a politician, one of the most important historical leaders of the struggle against the apartheid political system before becoming President of the Republic of South Africa from 1994 to 1999, following the first non-racial national elections in the country’s history. All his life has revolved around the fight against racial […]

Nawal El Saadawi, a major figure of Egyptian and Arab feminism, was born on 27th October 1930 in Kafr Talha. Novelist and human rights activist, she is a also a psychiatry physician who graduated from the University of Cairo in 1954, then from Columbia University in 1966. She was soon to pay the price for […]

Nawal El Moutawakel, born on 15 April 1962 in Casablanca, is an Moroccan female athlete who made history in 1984 as the first Arab, African and Muslim female to win a gold medal in the first 400m hurdles women in the history of the Olympic Games. Her University studies in the United States led her […]

Mongo Beti is, undoubtedly, one of the most prolific and most renowned writer in Cameroon. Famous novelist, born under the name of Alexandre Biyidi Awala, he was also a committed essayist, teacher, bookseller and publisher. In 1953, he published the short story « Sans haine et sans amour » in the magazine Présence Africaine. From 1958 onwards, […]

Born Cassius Marcellus Clay, better known as Mohamed Ali, was an American boxer who excelled in his sport and was crowned several times as the world champion. He also stands out for his political ideas and his fights for the cause of Blacks and to this end, he is close to Malcolm X. Converted to […]

As the first President of the independent Republic of Mali, Modibo Keita was a charismatic leader, very influential on the international arena. He had non-alignment as a principle and was a staunch pan-Africanist, and shared that conviction with the great nationalists of his time, like Mouammar Gaddafi from Libya, Gamal Abdel Nasser from Egypt, Kwame […]

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 […]