Browsing: Africa

You hear a lot in the Western media about Africans migrating abroad, but what about foreigners moving to Africa? In this clip, we’re shown which non-African…

Countless African martyrs have shed their blood to liberate our people. Today’s hero is Octavius Valentine Catto (1839-71). Born in Charleston, South Carolina, Catto grew to…

Revolutionary icon Che Guevara was executed by the Bolivian army on this day in 1967. Despite the US insistence that it wanted him alive, and that…

This week’s dash of Wednesday Wisdom comes from Assata Shakur, a prominent Black Liberation Army (BLA) figure living in exile in Cuba. This revolutionary elder reminds…

This week’s African proverb is a defence of quality over quantity – even with its ‘thousand’ legs, the poor millipede can’t pull off the graceful moves…

The city of Portland in the US state of Maine held its first Colored Convention on 6 October 1841. Between 1830 and the 1890s, over 200…

The smearing of African media as disinformation tools is an old imperialist tactic, designed to maintain control of the narrative about our continent. We’re accused of…

WARNING: This video contains violent scenes of the US’ war on drugs.’ On this day in 1975, Sandinista guerilla fighters in Nicaragua uncovered a covert US…

The victors wrote their version of history that we read in our school books, teaching an inaccurate context that claims one race invented everything, discovered everything,…

At the 79th session of the UN General Assembly last week, Edgar Leblanc Fils, president of the Presidential Council of the Transition of Haiti, reminded the…