As the world rethinks colonial legacies and calls for justice grow louder, correcting the map may seem like a small gesture—but it’s one with profound ripple effects.

Africa must not allow external powers — motivated by economic interests, strategic alliances or neo-colonial agendas — to impose a solution on Western Sahara.

The U.S. establishment of Liberia in West Africa is emblematic of the pervasiveness of American anti-Blackness, says theGrio's Christina M. Greer.

In 1888, the "Scramble For Africa" was nearly over. European powers had carved out their colonies, and Imperial Russia still lacked a "place in the sun." But adventurer Nikolai Ivanovitch Achinov ...