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On this day in 1811, the largest revolt of enslaved people in the United States occurred in modern-day Louisiana. Sometimes known as the German Coast Uprising,…

Last month, people from about 30 countries flocked to Niger’s capital, Niamey, for the historic Conference in Solidarity with the Peoples of the Sahel. During the…

Afro-Caribbean revolutionary and psychiatrist Frantz Fanon is perhaps the most influential anti-colonial thinker of his time. He died on this day, December 6th, in 1961. His…

On 8 November, a delegation of 12 people from Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger arrived in Havana, Cuba. For the next seven days, they would travel…

Burkina Faso can do fashion revolutions as well as ideological ones! Black gowns and white wigs – the traditional attire of the country’s court magistrates and…

The Union of the Peoples of Cameroon (UPC) fought and died for both the independence and unity of Cameroon, as well as that of Africa, but…