The new colonial policy has already left its mark on the soil of Africa, however. Its objective is to raise the people to the high road on which we are traveling, but to let them follow their own way ...

France’s ‘colonial strategy’ blamed for division in troubled New Caledonia Three months after the French Pacific territory was rocked by a wave of unrest, an uneasy calm has returned.

Activists are being tried in Paris over the attempted theft of an African artwork from the Quai Branly Museum, which they say was a protest of colonial-era practices.

"They made us join up to wage war," said Ndiogou Dieye, 103, casting his memory back more than eight decades to when he and other young Senegalese donned uniforms to fight for distant France.

PARIS — The French government presented a draft law Wednesday that would enable France to return certain cultural artifacts taken from African countries during the colonial era.

A Black French scholar and expert on U.S. minority rights movements who’s taking charge of France’s state-run immigration museum says it’s “vital” for his country to confront its ...

NEW YORK (AP) — A New York City museum is opening an exhibit of rarely displayed maps that provide a blueprint of the transformation of the original 13 colonies into the United States of America.

Ten years after the riots that hit France in 2005, there has been much debate about how far France has moved on from the images of burning cars, disaffected youth and urban apocalypse. At the time ...

In just over a decade, enslaved Haitians turned the richest colony in the French empire into the first Black republic through revolution, resistance, and relentless warfare. This video unpacks how ...

A Black French scholar and expert on U.S. minority rights movements who is taking charge of France’s state-run immigration museum says it’s “vital” for his country to confront its colonial ...