Black history month post: Alexandre Dumas


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OP: Since Canadians are generally woefully uninformed about their own history of slavery, I thought I would dedicate a post or two to this issue. The following post is on slavery in New France (i.e. French colony in North America).
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OP: The following is the preface to an 8-volume history of Africa. I am posting it for this installment of Black History Month because it discusses, among other things, the myths
and prejudices that have long prevailed regarding the history of Africa.
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Preface
AMADOU-MAHTAR M ' B OW

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A post about Vivien Thomas mutated into a second post about African American scientists and inventors! (Thanks to moonshaz for suggesting Vivien Thomas.)

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Biography of Matthew Alexander Henson
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Black History Month: Ten African American Scientists and Inventors( Lots of information under the cut... )

Heroes like Frederick Douglass and Rosa Parks feel like characters in a novel-a world away from the clicking locks and nervous glances that plague millions of ordinary people.I’d experienced it before, but it was especially palpable one morning when I had to run around two white women out for a walk at a high school track. I felt the need to shrink ( Read more... )

'Meet Mansa Musa I of Mali - the richest human being in all history'


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'Chinua Achebe - Biography'

Born in Nigeria in 1930, Chinua Achebe attended the University of Ibadan. In 1958, his groundbreaking novel Things Fall Apart was published. It went on to sell more than 12 million copies and been translated into more than 50 languages. Achebe later served as the David and Marianna Fisher University professor and ( Read more... )

'Viola (Davis) Desmond was a Halifax Business Woman, Beautician, Teacher and Entrepreneur who Awakened Nova Scotia to Human Rights in 1946.'

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