Africa – Algeria

Andree Blouin (1921-1986)
Andree Madeleine Blouin, one of an emerging group of African activists and political leaders in the 1960s, was born in...
February 6th, 2023

Brahim Ghali (1949- )
Brahim Ghali is a Sahrawi politician and military officer who serves as the current president of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic...
June 2nd, 2022

Denis Sassou-Nguesso (1943- )
The long-serving president of the Republic of Congo (Congo-Brazzaville), Denis Sassou-Nguesso was born on November 23, 1943, in Edou. His...
May 12th, 2022

Abdelmadjid Tebboune (1945- )
The current president of Algeria is Abdelmadjid Tebboune who was born on November 17, 1945 in Mecheria, Algeria. His father...
April 19th, 2022

Ahmed Ben Bella (1916-2012)
Ahmed Ben Bella was a leader of the Algerian War of Independence who became the first Prime Minister, and later,...
March 11th, 2022

Sarah Maldoror (1929-2020)
Négritude cinema director, activist, feminist Sarah Maldoror was born Sarah Ducados on July 19, 1929, in Condom, France, of emigrant...
March 5th, 2022

Kathleen Neal Cleaver (1945- )
Kathleen Neal Cleaver emerged in the late 1960s as one of the most influential leaders of the Black Panther Party (BPP)....
January 10th, 2018

The Asian-African (Bandung) Conference: Fact and Fiction
In the article below independent historian Kyle Haddad-Fonda describes the Asian-African Conference popularly known as the Bandung Conference which was...
August 8th, 2017

Zhou Enlai’s African “Safari” (1963-1964)
Zhou Enlai’s first tour of Africa, popularly known as Zhou’s “Safari,” was a series of state visits to ten independent...
August 2nd, 2017