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Edward W Blyden (1832-1912) was a significant figure in the establishment of the African state of Liberia. Born in the West Indies he grew up to be a writer, politician and theologian. After being rejected by three US colleges to...
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‘A Voice from the South’ is a book published in 1892. Its author, Anna Julia Cooper, was born in 1858 the daughter of enslaved people who were declared free by the US Emancipation Act of 1863 when she was five...
Howard Thurman (1899-1981) “Don’t ask yourself what the world needs. Ask yourself what makes you come alive and then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who are alive.” HT “In the stillness of the quiet,...
“The fundamental cure for poverty is not money but knowledge” Sir Arthur Lewis Sir William Arthur Lewis was born in St Lucia on 23rd January 1915. He found himself excelling in school at a young age and completing the entire...
“In ballet, there is freedom and beauty. There is also pain and sacrifice.” C.A. Carlos Acosta CBE has been described as “a dancer who slashes across space faster than anyone else, who lacerates the air...