Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The following books highlight different aspects of African American history, from women’s voting rights and systemic inequality to ...

Olaudah Equiano's (c. 1745–1797) much anthologized autobiography is one of the earliest by an English-speaking person of African descent. But was it wholly truthful in its self-portrayal? Carretta, a ...

The Historical Society of Liberia (HSL) inaugurates the Presidents Biography Series (PBS). PBS aims to write the life stories of Liberia's presidents.This goal reechoes the fundamental principle that ...

Renowned historian, Professor Toyin Falola, has emphasized the importance of honest and balanced storytelling in biography writing, underlining the necessity of portraying both the strengths and ...

There are relatively few detailed, firsthand accounts of the 12 million Africans captured and forcibly transported to the Americas in the 400 years of the trans-Atlantic slave trade. Of the 10 million ...

You are never alone in this world. Reach out and you can always get help. Look around and you’ll find company. Pick up one of these great books and you’ll read about someone whose life was fascinating ...

Joel Kibazo, Chairman of the Judging Panel for this year, is a Ugandan staff reporter on the 'Financial Times' in London, where he covers markets and African finance. He has reported from several ...

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