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With the French Senate ‘repelling’ the Code Noir on Tuesday, we had a to dive a bit deeper into the Code Noir and what it meant. As we saw, the Code Noir, was issued in 1685 by King Louis XIV of France, as the rulebook that defined slavery in France’s Caribbean colonies and later the …


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Would you believe that the Code Noir (Black code), the decree that was passed by the French King Louis XIV of France in 1685 which defined the conditions of slavery in the Antilles, then Louisiana, and served as the code for slavery conduct in the French colonies up until 1789, the year marking the beginning …


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As a norm, every October 15, we celebrate the life of President Thomas Sankara, and yesterday, President Ibrahim Traoré of Burkina Faso launched the Sovereignty Football league to raise the level of soccer (football) in the different regions of the country. Sure, this comes after the resounding defeat of the Burkinabe national team against Argentina …


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This year, South African lawyer Navi Pillay is the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize laureate. She joins 4 other illustrious countrymen Nobel peace laureates, Albert Luthuli (1960 – first Black person to be win the award), Desmond Tutu (1984), Nelson Mandela (1993) joint with F. W. de Klerk (1993). This makes her the first South African …


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As we mourn the loss of our father Cheikh Hamidou Kane and celebrate his life, we have to re-examine his novel L’Aventure ambiguë as it pertains to our life today and challenges and wins. As such, globalization and artificial intelligence (AI), and the question Kane asked us: can we move forward without losing ourselves? as …


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