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The Magnolia Mound Museum + Historical Site in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, is a strange place. When I visited this museum, I saw that it looked awfully like a plantation, and this made me ask important questions about why the word “plantation” was missing from the name of the “museum.” After all, the Whitney Plantation, just […]

On the second day of September 2026, the U.S. Mission in Nigeria, through their official X (formerly Twitter) handle, published a hashtag-led tribute to a historical signpost in US-Nigeria relations. For archival accuracy, the post in part:  “#ThisWeekinUSNigeriaHistory in 1983, America’s Billboard 200 welcomed a groundbreaking sound from Nigeria: King Sunny Adé’s Jùjú Music spent […]

OlongoAfrica Press is pleased to announce the publication of The New Anthology of Young African and African American Poetry, a collection that galvanizes emerging poets from Africa and the African American community/diaspora in a shared literary space. Since its inception, OlongoAfrica has recorded different literary successes and publications of new books as part of its […]

Seasonality dictates the character of Canadian life, its tone, texture, and the pulses of its resilience. It tells its history ruthlessly and informs us of the roots of traditions that govern the north and its confluences. To imagine the seasonal life of Canadian is to come into its brutal history of settler colonialism and the […]

See, I’m full of the blues, holy water too – Preacher Boy At the time of death, legendary Delta blues musician, Robert Johnson, was only 27. He had disappeared quietly, so quiet that the world did not hear a word about it until nearly three decades later, when a researcher stumbled upon his death certificate […]

Africans trying to escape Ukraine into neighbouring countries as a result of the war ongoing in the country after Russia invaded and a war ensued have been forced to come face-to-face with varying degrees of segregation and blatant racism. Several videos of clusters of Africans left behind, or dragged out of train cars and buses, […]