Africa’s modern map tells a story centuries in the making, yet much of it was drawn by foreign powers with little regard for local realities. Straight lines carved across rivers, mountains, and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. FILE - Young Muslims gather around the green and white FLN rebel flags in Diar el Mahcoul, a suburb of Algiers, Algeria, ignoring ...

Gregory Luebbert Book Award, American Political Science Association, 1995. "In this comprehensive and original study, a distinguished scholar of African affairs argues that the crisis in African ...

French President Emmanuel Macron said young Nigerians were free from the effects of colonialism In our series of letters from Africa, Nigerian writer and novelist Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani looks at the ...

Many today believe the era of colonialism in Africa is over. They’re wrong. The era of colonialism in Africa has merely entered a new and insidious phase. Some call it “neo-colonialism.” I call it ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Map of Africa (1722). Original from The Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library. Digitally enhanced by rawpixel Wikipedia Commons, ...

South Africa has not entered into any discussions with the United Kingdom (UK) or the Netherlands on reparations for their ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When historians and the public think about the end of domestic slavery in west Africa, they often imagine colonial governors ...

Africa is facing a new and devastating colonial invasion driven by a determination to plunder the natural resources of the continent, especially its strategic energy and mineral resources. That’s the ...

The death of Queen Elizabeth II has prompted an outpouring of reflection and reaction online. But not all was grief — some young Africans instead are sharing images and stories of their own elders, ...

In the late 1950s Pan-African activist Andrée Blouin contributed to Sékou Touré’s campaign for independence in Guinea, then helped Patrice Lumumba’s electoral campaign in the Belgian Congo, before ...

Colonialism is never the easiest subject for discussion—but it's particularly loaded in South Africa. Africa's most industrialized state was for centuries ruled by a mixture of British and Dutch ...