French Colonial endeavor in West Africa began in 1637 when various generals and wealthy French men started exploring the continent. General Louis Faidherbe, who ended up becoming the colonial ...

French MPs have unanimously adopted legislation allowing Paris to return to Cote d'Ivoire the Djidji Ayôkwé talking drum, ...

Several hundred documents and items revealing the names and other details of victims of slavery in France’s colonial empire is being added to UNESCO’s Memory of the World register. This latest ...

Like a kind of Gallic Colonel Blimp, Paris' conservative Le Figaro (circ. 390,000) takes French imperial prestige with deep seriousness. To awaken the same feeling in other Frenchmen, Le Figaro ...

After the French parliament voted on Monday to return to Ivory Coast a "talking drum" that colonial troops took from the ...

A valuable statement of the changes wrought by the war in the French colonial empire, ... La France D’outre-Mer: De L’empire Colonial à L’union Française (1938-1947) Reviewed by Robert Gale Woolbert ...