Saint Maurice (also Moritz, Morris, or Mauritius) was an Egyptian military leader who headed the legendary Theban Legion of Rome in the 3rd century, and is one of the favorite…

A Moor’s head, since the 11th century, is a symbol depicting the head of a black moor. The precise origin of the Moor’s head is a subject of controversy. But…

Frantz Omar Fanon (20 July 1925 – 6 December 1961), also known as Ibrahim Frantz Fanon, was a French West Indian psychiatrist and political philosopher from the French colony of…

The Berlin Conference of 1884–1885, also known as the Congo Conference regulated European colonization and trade in Africa during the New Imperialism period and coincided with Germany’s sudden emergence as…

Edmonstone gave Darwin inspiring accounts of tropical rain forests in South America and may have encouraged him to explore there. The taxidermy Darwin learnt from Edmonstone helped him greatly during…

The Code Noir (French pronunciation: ​[kɔd nwaʁ], Black Code) was a decree passed by the French King Louis XIV in 1685 defining the conditions of slavery in the French colonial…

Ras Prince Monolulu (26 October 1881 – 14 February 1965), whose real name was Peter Carl Mackay (or McKay), was a horse-racing tipster, and something of an institution on the…

Dido Elizabeth Belle (1761 – July 1804) was a British heiress and a member of the Lindsay family of Evelix. She was born into slavery and illegitimate; her mother, Maria…

Lucius Septimius Severus was Roman emperor from 193 to 211. He was born in Leptis Magna (present day Al-Khums, Libya) in the Roman province of Africa.  

Adrian, also spelled Hadrian (born before 637, died 710), was a North African scholar in Anglo-Saxon England and the abbot of Saint Peter’s and Saint Paul’s in Canterbury. He was…