France's parliament on Monday approved returning to Ivory Coast a "talking drum" that colonial troops took from the Ebrie tribe in 1916, in the latest boost to the repatriation of colonial spoils. In ...

France's parliament on Monday approved the return of the Djidji Ayokwe, a prized drum, to Ivory Coast, more than a century ...

Two 16th-century texts about the Americas by Jewish writers reflect the complicated place Jews and ‘conversos’ held in the ...

The voting reform, which Macron said he will push back by several weeks, would allow thousands more French residents who have lived in New Caledonia for 10 years to vote, diluting the vote of the ...

A French new wave is sweeping the Big Apple -- when it comes to restaurants, that is. Top chefs including Jean-Georges Vongerichten, Eric Ripert and Daniel Humm also celebratd what would have been ...

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The ongoing crisis in New Caledonia threatens to unravel more than three decades of French diplomatic engagement, as well as ...

NEW ORLEANS — A piece of New Orleans’ colonial past is being restored, thanks to a gift from the Spanish government. The City of New Orleans and the Vieux Carré Commission (VCC) announced the ...

From street names to textbooks, Senegal is rewriting French colonial memory. New project set to rename streets and public squares bearing names of colonial officers as Dakar further distances ...

New Caledonia has marked the anniversary of its French colonization with tight security and simmering tensions between the pro-independence Indigenous Kanak people and the white settler ...

In that article we dedicated to the tragic end of the Dutch Prime Minister and his brother in 1672, we explained that the Treaty of Dover, signed between Charles II of England and Louis XIV of France, ...

Some 350,000 soldiers from French colonies volunteered or were forced to fight for France in the World Wars. Their contributions have been mostly overlooked. (Story aired on ATC on Dec. 26, 2024.) ...