African Nova Scotian | St. Francis Xavier University

"During the 18th and 19th centuries people of African Ancestry, whose forbears had been bought to the Americas and the Caribbean in the captivity as slaves, entered Atlantic Canada either voluntarily or involuntarily. Most of them cherish a promised land in which they and their descendants could live out their lives as free citizens."

- Beneath The Clouds of the Promised Land, Bridglal Pachai

Exploring the African Nova Scotian Experience

Halifax, Nova Scotia: Street Checks Report

BLAC Report on Education

The Times of African Nova Scotians

Africville Museum

Black Cultural Centre for Nova Scotia

Black Business Initiative

African Nova Scotian Affairs

Black Loyalist Heritage Society

Glace Bay Universal Negro Improvement Association

African Nova Scotian Music Association (ANSMA)

African Canadian Services

Africville: Canadian Museum for Human Rights

More about Black Nova Scotia

StFX Office of Black Student Advising

The L'nu symbol. L’nu is a word the Mi’kmaq use to describe themselves, meaning “human being” or “the people.”

StFX espi-kina’matno’kuom etek Mi’kma’ki, wejkwa’taqanik Mi’kmaq maqamikewmuew mna’q iknmuetu’tik. Nalikitquniejk na Mi’kmawey wisun wjit Antigonish teluek Aklasie’w-iktuk, ‘place where branches are torn off.’

StFX is located in Mi’kma’ki, the unceded ancestral territory of the Mi'kmaw people. The Mi'kmaw name for Antigonish is Nalikitquniejk, meaning ‘place where branches are torn off.’

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