Edson Arantes do Nascimento, known to the world as “Pelé,” is revered as one of the most influential football (soccer) players in history.
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what is Africa? It is a collection of very different countries and regions, with different characteristics. They do have certain things in common however – with huge biodiversity and mineral wealth and across the continent the most youthful population in the world with the biggest growing middle class in the world, but within that – real difference. There is this tendency to generalise.

Abolitionists, for their part, also supported Wheatley as they did other African writers, arguing that by their literary merit and Christian witness they were living proof of the slave trade’s immorality.

It took until 1976 to have legislation that criminalised racist actions in employment and housing, and established the Commission for Racial Equality, which could support people in industrial tribunals.

He sought employment with various Dayton businesses, including newspapers, only to be rejected because of his race.

“I’m a black ocean, leaping and wide,
Welling and swelling I bear in the tide.”

There are different ways of doing it. For me, I want to chase after a feeling, something that just feels good. And from there, lyrically, the music just sort of sets the template for the words. The feeling directs all creativity.

“Don’t care where you come from/As long as you’re a black man, you’re an African.”

His final traffic stop was far from his first. It was in fact his 46th stop — almost all of which were related to fairly minor traffic violations.

Unfortunately, for racists in the 21st century, using this term is no longer a viable line of defence against a generation of highly educated, switched on Black people.