If military rule cannot liberate Africa from vestiges of colonialism, what could? The Activists and Independence Fighters ...

Abdulrazak Gurnah is receiving worldwide attention after being awarded last year’s Nobel Prize in Literature. His latest novel “Afterlives” is set in colonial East Africa occupied by Germany in the ...

The heads of state of Germany and Britain both expressed regret this week over atrocities their nations committed in the colonial period in Africa. German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier sought ...

"Slavery, Emancipation and Colonial Rule in South Africa examines the rural Cape Colony from the earliest days of Dutch colonial rule in the mid-seventeenth century to the outbreak of the South ...

The end of Portuguese colonial rule in Angola fifty years ago was also the beginning of a Cuban military mission that had a ...

Abdulrazak Gurnah is receiving worldwide attention after being awarded last year’s Nobel Prize in Literature. His latest novel “Afterlives” is set in colonial East Africa occupied by Germany in the ...

BERLIN (AP) — Germany's president on Wednesday apologized for killings under colonial rule in Tanzania more than a century ago as he met descendants of an executed leader of a revolt against German ...

Discover the 11 most important independence movements in modern history. Learn about the impact, origins, and key facts of ...

More than 60 years after most African states gained independence, the legal infrastructure imposed by former colonial powers continues to exert outsized influence. Across the continent, outdated ...

In what the publisher describes as “an original history of race-making, belonging and rights,” Jean-Baptiste investigates the fluctuating identities of “métis,” referring to the multiracial children ...