A family podcast to share between generations the history of Africa and its implications for the world today.

We embark on short SANKOFA flights which take us to revisit the wonderful and powerful history of the African continent, Africans and Afro-descendants from around the world.

Get on board and let's travel, let's learn about Africa. let's love this continent and let's make it proud!

In 1990, Benin Republic was facing an economic and ideological and political crisis, after 27 years of a brutal dictatorship by Président Mathieu Kerekou. When the risk of civil war at a peak, the Benin people, despite the tension, arranged a national inclusive consultation that led to the negotiations of a peaceful resolution and transition. Benin then invented the principle of a national conference that would be replicated in multiple countries in the francophone region, with more or less success. Learn more about a conference which changed the destiny of the country and set a historical example of diplomatic finesse of Africans. 

Learn about the Egyptians' people fight against colonial powers and the coup against the King that revealed Gamal Abdel Nasser

Wonderful Ethiopian Army defeated Italian army! Menelik and his wife, made history 

Zenzile Miriam Makeba, was born on March 4, 1932 in Jo'Burg, South Africa, and dead on November 10, 2008, was a famous South African Grammy award singer

All her life, Mariama BA has tried to reconcile her culture, religion and openness to other cultural horizons. Rooting and opening have thus constituted the two sometimes conflictual poles of her itinerary marked with asperities.

The Kongo's "Jeanne D'Arc"  caused the inquisition, a great deal of worry, she who freed the pride of the black identify and carried an emancipatory faith on a continent in prey of oppression