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Why Black History Month has been separated from postcolonial African politics for far too long
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson in 2016 famously accused Barack Obama of harboring an “ancestral dislike of the British empire” that was borne out of the former American president being...
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Jodie Turner-Smith as Anne Boleyn: What happens when a Black actor plays a historical white woman?
Sociological researchers have noted in the last two decades that American and British societies have undergone tremendous degrees of social liberalism as well as far-reaching sensitization on the rights...
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Do people have the moral right to not learn Black history?
The 18th-century German philosopher, Arthur Schopenhauer, was a professional pessimist who advised against tectonic efforts to change our world according to some ethical principle. This was not because...
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Nigeria: Why was Africa’s most populated nation removed from WHO vaccine-sharing program?
Nigeria expected to receive not fewer than 100,000 doses of Pfizer’s vaccines by the end of January or at the beginning of February but that expectation will be unmet since the country has been yanked...
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The story of how a 19th-century Cameroonian man became a Polish insurgent after WWI
“When you live on Polish soil, you have to fight for this land!” If this sentence of defiant patriotism was ever truly uttered by a Black man who found himself in Poland during that country’s...
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America refused to honor MLK with a holiday because Congress thought it’d be ‘expensive’ – The inside story
Martin Luther King Jr. Day has fallen on the third Monday of every January since 1986. As fate would have it, the opinions of Republican President Ronald Reagan evolved on the issue of MLK being honored...
