Cheikh Anta Diop is a Senegalese anthropologist, Egyptologist and politician who owes his international renown partly to the theses he developed and argued throughout his life about the anteriority of black civilizations, the Negro origins of ancient Egypt and the rich history of pre-colonial Black Africa, particularly through its languages and cultural unity. In 1966, […]

Activist and revolutionary politician, Carmen Pereira is an active member of the PAIGC for the independence of Guinea-Bissau. Elected at the National People’s Congress of which she was vice-president from 1973 to 1984, she will become president in 1984. Carmen Pereira also became President of the Council of State (Acting President of the country) until […]

Betty McLeod Bethune is an American educator and activist for the defence of citizens’ rights. Born into a family of former slaves, she has, from her childhood, a taste for knowledge that pushed her to enrol in the local school, where she learns to read and write. This opens the doors to higher education, she […]

Battling Siki, whose real name is Louis Mbarick Amadou Fall, is one of the most famous boxers in the early 20th century. Born in Saint-Louis of Senegal in 1897, he arrives in France as a teenager and soon starts boxing and becoming excellent boxer. Enrolled as soldier in the French army, Battling Siki distinguishes himself […]

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, […]