What are your plans on may 25 while you are in Lisbon? Come and gather with different people and celebrate the Africa day with us. There are a lot to do. Music Gastronomy Exhibition History mode We will start our day at 10am with the African Lisbon Tour from Praça de Comercio. Just … More AFRICA DAY : MAY 25
Malcolm X was born Malcolm Little on May 19, 1925 in Omaha, Nebraska. His mother, Louise Norton Little, was a homemaker occupied with the family’s eight children. His father, Earl Little, was an outspoken Baptist minister and avid supporter of Black Nationalist leader Marcus Garvey. Earl’s civil rights activism prompted death threats from the white … More His name IS Malcom X born on May 19, 1925
Some curiosities we try and learn during the African Tour in Lisbon!!! If you come with us next time, you can also share the experience with us. Call us, send us an email, WhatsApp whatever and you will be IN. See ya
Your African Tour has been recommended by The French Radio to the French audience visiting or living in Portugal. Votre Tour Africain de Lisbonne relatant l’histoire méconnue de l’Afrique vous est recommandé par la French Radio à vous francophones vivant ou étant de passage au Portugal. Nous vous y attendons. Contactez nous pour plus d’information. … More The French Radio with us
“From this moment and Forever Free from any subject, any hindrance Master of your destiny Togo my country, here you are Free Free to be yourself To follow your ideas and inclinations To choose according to your reason and your feelings To decide according to your own will Finally free In the restored dignity To … More Independence Day of Togo: Sylvanus Olympio the visionnaire
A highly threatening message warning foreigners living in South Africa of impending more xenophobic attacks is making huge rounds on social media raising severe panic and uncertainty especially to people living in infornal settlements in the country. The heavily worded message gives a thirty day ultimatum for foreigners living in the Southern Africa economic giant … More Xenephobia in South Africa: Ultimatum to non South Africans to leave the Country: True or false
Virgínia Sofia Guerra Quaresma OSE (28 December 1882 – 23 October 1973) was the first woman to take up professional journalism in Portugal and was one of the first women graduates from the Faculty of Arts of the University of Lisbon. She was openly lesbian, in a time when society dictated that sexual orientation … More Virginia Quaresma: Story of a life of struggle
She was declared a national heroine in 1975 by the Jamaican government and awarded the title of “Right Excellent” due to her enormous accomplishments. Queen Nanny, born in Ghana in western Africa, to the Ashanti tribe, was brought to Jamaica as a slave and ended up being a Maroon leader in Jamaica during the late … More Nanny, the Ashanti woman who ended up as freedom fighter and hero in Jamaica
A decade ago, I have visited the island of Gorée in Senegal located less than 4 km from the city of Dakar. This photo took next to the memorial of the Liberation reminds me what I felt knowing details about the slave trade on the island. Gorée was since the 15th century the center of rivalries … More Goree Island: Goosebumps
Sarah Baartman died on 29 December 1815, but her exhibition continued. Her brain, skeleton and sexual organs remained on display in a Paris museum until 1974. Her remains weren’t repatriated and buried until 2002. Brought to Europe seemingly on false pretences by a British doctor, stage-named the “Hottentot Venus”, she was paraded around “freak shows” … More Sarah Baartman: The black Venus and an human attraction
