Economist and politician, Sylvie Kinigi is Burundi’s Prime Minister from July 1993 to February 1994. After the death of President Melchior Ndadaye who was killed during a coup d’état in October 1993, Sylvie Kinigi was invited to form a interim government from 27 October 1993 to 5 February 1994, and became the first and to […]

Thomas Isidore Noël Sankara was a Burkinabe military, pan-Africanist politician, he embodied and led the Burkinabè revolution from 4 August 1983 till his assassination On 15 October 1987 during the coup d’état led by Blaise Compaoré. The latter is chased away by a popular uprising. His government undertakes major reforms to fight corruption and improve […]

Born François Dominique Toussaint, Toussaint Louverture is the greatest leader of the Haitian revolution. He is known to have been the first black leader to have defeated the forces of a European colonial empire in his own country. Born a slave, having distinguished himself in arms and having led a victorious struggle for the freedom […]

Usain St. Leo Bolt is a Jamaican athlete, sprint specialist, six times Olympic champion and eight-time world champion, holder of three records of the world: 100 m (9 s 58), 200 m (19 s 19) and 4 × 100 m (36 s 84). He is the first athlete who has managed to keep his Olympic […]

Walter Max Ulyate Sisulu (born 18 May 1912 in Engcobo and died 5 May 2003) is a South African politician, ANC activist and anti-apartheid fighter. A former Secretary General of the African National Congress (ANC), friend and Nelson Mandela’s companion, he remained committed throughout his life to the struggle for a multiracial democracy. Imprisoned for […]

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 […]