In 1879-1880, as Henry Morton Stanley was secretly mapping the Congo River and procuring trade treaties from local leaders, ...

Travels in the Coastlands of British East Africa and the Islands of Zanzibar and Pemba. By W. W. A. FitzGerald. Pp. xxiv + 774. Maps and illustrations. (London: Chapman and Hall, 1898.) ...

lived in Foxton in the early 1930s - their home was built in 1705 and is of historic interest The scientist was born in 1903 in British East Africa, now known as Kenya. His parents were English ...

Sir Keir Starmer has signed over the Chagos Islands to Mauritius after an earlier challenge was overturned, allowing the ...

After the Fall of France and the establishment of the Vichy regime in 1940, Allied leaders looked to target French colonial ...

Originally conceived by the British colonial administration with zero consultation or regard for local communities, this strip was never meant to foster harmony or fairness. It was a tool of control, ...

On that day, Alexander Pearson, a ship’s surgeon working for the British East India Company, administered the first smallpox vaccination to a Chinese patient in the Portuguese colony of Macao ...

East Africa's main slave market until 1873. These captives were however lucky, as after they were purchased and in transit to work in plantations, their ship was intercepted by the British Royal Navy, ...

The undoing of postcolonial states in Africa started ... Somaliland’s vs. British Somaliland’s division is wreaking political havoc on the national consciousness of the organic nation of Somalia. In ...

To a large extent, among the broader body politic and the general populace, that remains the case: a 2016 survey of American ...