France returned Camp Geille, its largest base in Senegal, and its airfield at Dakar’s airport in a ceremony on Thursday ...

France's President Emmanuel Macron says he will set up a commission to study French-Haitian history and the impact of a huge debt imposed on Haiti in exchange for its independence exactly 200 ...

Direct French colonial rule over Martinique and Guadeloupe began in the 17th century and structured the local social system and economy to primarily benefit French economic interests.

President Emmanuel Macron has begun a two-day visit to the Indian Ocean island of Madagascar in what is the first state visit by a French leader to its former colony off the east coast of Africa ...

Macron's visit marked the first by a French leader to the former colony off the east coast of Africa since Jacques Chirac's in 2005.

France TV Distribution has acquired “Furcy,” an epic film inspired by the true story of a slave in a French colony who was able to achieve legal emancipation prior to the definitive abolition ...

French researcher Laurent Vinatier, sentenced by Russia to three years in prison in a case condemned by Paris, has been transferred to a transit penal colony, his family told Agence France-Presse ...

In his play Vielleicht, French-Ivorian director Cédric Djedje lays bare Germany's colonial past, through the story of the 40-year struggle of Afro-descendants to change the names of three streets ...

France's President Emmanuel Macron says he will set up a commission to study French-Haitian history and the impact of a huge debt imposed on Haiti in exchange for its independence exactly 200 ...

French administrations have acknowledged the historic wrong of slavery in Haiti and other former colonies but have avoided any real discussion over whether they would return the "independence debt".