Politics

Signed in Washington under the aegis of Donald Trump, the agreement between Kigali and Kinshasa for peace in eastern DRC reflects less a diplomatic...

Reduced to a statue in official memory, Antonio Maceo was nonetheless one of the Spanish Empire’s most feared strategists. The son of a freed...

As African independences are being commemorated, one name remains strangely absent from official narratives: that of the Cameroon War. Between 1955 and 1971, a...

Jean-Claude Duvalier, heir to a throne built on fear, did not govern—he prolonged the shadow. From his teenage rise to power to his gilded...

In May 1967 (Mé 67), Guadeloupe erupted in a blaze of social and racial anger. Three days of fire, blood, and silence—still denied by...

Beyond the assassination of Malcolm X lies a state strategy: surveillance, infiltration, sabotage. A look back at COINTELPRO, the FBI's secret program designed to...

A century after his birth, Malcolm X continues to disturb. Radical thought, Pan-African strategy, rejection of compromise—he embodies a defiant voice that history has...

As France commemorates the abolition of slavery, a historical anomaly reemerges: the Code Noir, the foundational text of colonial slavery, has never been formally...

B.B. King, a child of Mississippi and a Blues legend, transcended his rural roots to become a global icon. Through daring collaborations and a...