by Tiki Black | Our Heroes, Life and Culture
I write a lot about and mainly for the living. I avoid the safe cushions of posthumous eulogies that protect me from future disappointments that are most common to living perpetrators. Plus, the living and unsung heroes need to be reminded of the impossible battles...
by Anthony Mouyoungi | Artists and Artisans, Music, Music Artists, Our Heroes
Plus de quarante ans après sa tragique disparition, la voix de Franklin raisonne toujours. Les thèmes abordés dans ses chansons sont toujours d’actualité. Ce qui fait de lui un immortel au même titre que ceux qu’il citait dans son morceau ‘Les immortels’. Dans cette...
by Chantal Epee | Our Heroes, Life and Culture
Steve Biko: Introduction – Prémices Le 12 septembre 1951 un enfant qui n’a pas cinq ans, et qui est probablement peu conscient de la tragédie qui vient de lui survenir, devient orphelin de père. En effet, en participant à un rassemblement militant, Mzingaye son...
by The African Counter | Life and Culture, Our Heroes
The California Newsreel distribute a DVD documentary lasting 53 minutes and produced and directed in 1989 by William Greaves about Ida B. Wells-Barnett. Better known as the woman who refused to give up her seat to a white man in a period where that was custom, Ida is...
by Tiki Black | Music Artists, Our Heroes
Pierre Akendengué is a singer-songwriter from Gabon who mixes his African upbringing and his European further education to find and never part from his true self. He is one of the great masters of contemporary African music and has been for now about 4 decades. He was...
by The African Counter | Music Artists, Artists and Artisans, Music, Our Heroes
Bob Marley – Artist Profile Bob Marley, the Jamaican singer-song-writing and music legend. Bob Marley, if he really needs to be introduced, was the lead singer, songwriter and guitarist for the ska, rocksteady and reggae bands The Wailers (1964–1974) and Bob...