On the morning of December 21, 1949, in Yako, in northern Upper Volta (today Burkina Faso), Thomas Isidore Noël Sankara was born, the future revolutionary leader. He was the son of Nestor Sankara, a former soldier in the French army and prisoner of war during World War II who later… Read More »Thomas Sankara the man who shook Imperialism
Long before the European flags were planted on its lands, the Congo-Kinshasa was a space of flourishing civilizations. The powerful Kingdom of Kongo, founded in the 14th century and extending over present-day Bas-Congo, shone through its centralized political organization and its Atlantic trade exchanges. Further north, the Luba Kingdom, which… Read More »The Colonization of the DR Congo
On the morning of July 2, 1925, in the small village of Onalua, nestled deep in the forests of the Kasaï region of the Belgian Congo, a child was born whose words would one day pierce through the walls of empire and awaken the conscience of a continent. His name… Read More »Patrice Lumumba: The cry out of a Free Man
