From 1619 on, not long after the first settlement, the need for colonial labor was bolstered by the importation of African captives. At first, like their poor English counterparts, the Africans ...

Legacy of Africa's colonial past can be seen in anti-LGBTQ+ laws and discrimination in some nations but others embrace new rights ...

Arbitrary boundaries were drawn on maps to separate European colonies in Africa. Most of those lines drawn on a Berlin Conference table between 1884 and 1885 are still in place today - with deadly ...

From anti-protest legislation to moral policing and land dispossession, the legal relics of the colonial empire still reinforce authoritarianism and elite control decades after independence.

These nations chose to stick with the colonial currencies for various reasons. For many African nations, gaining independence from colonial powers was a time to redefine their identity and take ...

The president of the Ivory Coast says he has asked France to withdraw its troops from the West African country. Ivory Coast officially gained independence from French colonial rule in 1960, but ...

Macron’s Africa 'reset' stumbles as leaders call out colonial overtones French President Emmanuel Macron’s efforts to “reset” France’s relationship with its former African colonies ...

Sudan’s leader said Sunday that "colonial powers" are fueling conflicts in Africa. Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, the head of Sudan’s Sovereign Council, made the remarks during his meeting with ...

Why some African countries have strange shapes Cai Nebe 03/01/2024 Arbitrary boundaries were drawn on maps to separate European colonies in Africa.

“Changing sea levels would have necessitated the need for multiple relocations of breeding colonies of African penguins on time-scales of centuries, if not even shorter time-scales, and intense ...

Most of Africa's borders today were drawn up in Berlin in the late 19th century – and the consequences are drastic. Arbitrary boundaries were drawn on maps to separate European colonies in Africa.