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 […]

Kwame Nkrumah takes part in the 5th Pan-African Conference in Manchester while being still a student. Back home, a graduate in economics and law, he founded the CPP (Convention People’s Party) and was imprisoned for his radicalism. Nevertheless, in 1952, he won the elections and became First Minister of the Gold Coast. In 1957, under […]

The so-called Mwalimu, the schoolmaster, founded in 1954 Tanganyika African National Union, which won the 1960 elections peacefully. Nyerere succeeded in leading his country to independence on 9 December 1961. He became Prime Minister and then from 1962 to 1985, President of the whole new Republic of Tanganyika, which in 1964 became the United Republic […]

Originally from Sudan, she experienced humiliation, physical and psychological suffering of slavery. When she was bought, she went to live in Italy where she pronounced her first vows with the Canossian Sisters in 1896. Sister Josephine lived 51 years of religious life, letting herself be led by obedience in her work humble and hidden but […]

Joseph Ki-Zerbo, historian, professor and politician from Burkina Faso, has distinguished himself by an exceptional intellectual and academic background. He has studied political science and history, at the Institute of Political Studies of Paris (IEPP) and the Sorbonne. He brilliantly earned his Aggregation in History in 1956, becoming hence the first black African to bear […]