Several foreign actors, in the context of current rapidly changing geopolitical situation, are strategically involved in ...

In “A Training School for Elephants,” Sophy Roberts revisits an especially bizarre episode from the exploitation of Africa.

A firestorm of criticism has erupted across Africa following remarks by U.S. General Michael Langley, head of the United ...

“Pope Francis should be remembered as a post-colonial pope who acknowledged the intertwined histories of ecclesial, political ...

Chairman, Shaikh Moeenul Hack told last week’s United Nations Permanent Forum on People of African Descent (PFPAD4) ...

Modern Diplomacy On April 18, Zimbabwe celebrated its 45th independence anniversary. Their independence in 1980 came with ...

Gorée Island, off the coast of Dakar, is a somber reminder of the transatlantic slave trade. Listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site, it embodies both the duty to remember and the challenges of passing ...

Badawi’s encyclopedic survey of African history is an important installment in the current wave of scholarship on the deep histories of African societies.

Nairobi practice Cave Bureau explores architecture’s role in the geological afterlives of colonialism, as part of a team exhibiting at the British pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale 2025 ...

Park shows what state-building on a shoestring budget looks like in this fascinating historical account of colonial and postcolonial Kenya.

The great explorer, journalist, soldier, colonial administrator, author and politician, Sir Henry Morton Stanley, is buried ...

The process of decolonialising life and thinking in Europe must start with education. The ever-present legacy of Belgian colonialism is a good place to start. In the opinion of many historians, the ...