MOROGORO: THERE’S a certain irony in the way Western critics still speak to Africa, as if time has stood still since the ...

The Pan-African movement was disrupted by world events in the 1930s and 1940s and did not hold a congress again until after ...

A genomic analysis of over 1,200 people from across South Africa reveals how colonial-era European, Indigenous Khoe-San peoples, and enslaved people contributed to the modern-day gene pool in South ...

A massacre of African World War II riflemen demanding pay for fighting for France in 1944 was premeditated, covered up and ...

While Paris sinks deeper into debt and social unrest, Africa’s gold remains a crucial pillar of its financial stability.

Racist “culture” explanations for African underdevelopment are falseGeography, climate, and trade shaped societies more than ...

French forces' 1944 massacre of African World War II troops demanding pay in Senegal was "premeditated" and covered up, with ...

Opinion - If the slave trade uprooted millions, the Scramble for Africa uprooted entire nations. In the late 19th century, Europe turned its gaze once more to Africa--not just for people, but for land ...

The result of these distortions is that when most people think of Africa’s past, they see only pyramids and pharaohs — and imagine them as white. Meanwhile, kingdoms like Kush, Mali, Aksum, Songhai, ...

Why does The Gambia look like a thin ribbon cutting through Senegal? The answer lies in centuries of colonial competition.

For 50 hours, I walked the streets of a city that shouldn’t exist — a European enclave surrounded by Africa. Its people live between two continents, caught between colonial past and uncertain future.