Uzonna Anele

Yasuke was a legendary 6ft 2 African samurai who served under the powerful daimyo, Oda Nobunaga, during Japan's Sengoku period. He was a unique figure in Japanese history, and is the first known Afro samurai to serve in Japan.

Samuel Green was an African-American self-emancipated abolitionist who was jailed in 1857 for possessing a copy of the anti-slavery novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe.

The Global Terrorism Index (GTI) has released a report ranking the most terrorized countries in Africa, with Burkina Faso, Somalia, Mali, Nigeria, and Niger taking the top five spots. The GTI report indicates that terrorism deaths in Sub-Saharan Africa have...

The Velekete Slave Market served as a business point between African middlemen and European slave merchants and facilitated the forced migration of thousands of Africans to the Americas, where they were subjected to generations of enslavement and exploitation.

John Newton was an 18th-century slave trader who later became a clergyman and wrote one of the most beloved hymns of all time, "Amazing Grace.

Cécile Fatiman played a crucial role in the Haitian revolutionary movement by leading a ceremony that is said to have sparked the initial uprising against the French that resulted in the establishment of Haiti as the first independent black nation in the world.

In November 1781, the captain and crew of the British slave ship Zong threw 133 African slaves overboard, killing them. The reason for this act of brutality was to claim insurance money.

Thomas Earle was a prominent slave trader in the 18th century who played a significant role in the transatlantic slave trade. Born in Liverpool in the 1750s, Earle made a fortune as a slave trader and merchant during the peak of the slave trade era.

Bunce Island was a former slave castle located in the Sierra Leone River and was one of the largest centers of the transatlantic slave trade in West Africa. During the 17th and 18th centuries, thousands of Africans were captured,...

Born Omoba Aina, Sarah Forbes Bonetta was an Egbado princess of the Yoruba people, who was taken to England and presented to Queen Victoria as a “gift” from the king of the Blacks to the Queen of the Whites.