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 ...

In just over a decade, enslaved Haitians turned the richest colony in the French empire into the first Black republic through ...

The U.N. cultural agency has approved a new addition to its world heritage registrar with hundreds of records documenting people who were enslaved in the French colonial empire.

French MPs have unanimously adopted legislation allowing Paris to return to Cote d'Ivoire the Djidji Ayôkwé talking drum, which colonial troops seized from the Ebrié tribe in 1916. The Djidji Ayokwe ...

Algerian politicians have also sought financial reparations over French nuclear tests in the Sahara — and, most importantly, an official apology from France for colonial-era crimes.

Le Figaro’s correspondents polled 500 citizens, a cross section of the population, on French colonial geography. Last week the paper reported the gratifyingly horrendous results.

A valuable statement of the changes wrought by the war in the French colonial empire, with special attention to the formation and functioning of the French Union.

New project set to rename public spaces bearing names of colonial officers as Dakar distances itself from France.

When President Leon Mba of Gabon was toppled by the military in 1964, then-French President Charles de Gaulle sprang into action and immediately sent French troops to restore Mba to power.

As the French retreated slowly and exceedingly reluctantly from their post-colonial imperium, Wagner began moving in, becoming Moscow’s surrogate in an ongoing great-power contest for influence ...

Voices from former French colonies reflect on painful slave trade legacy It's been more than two decades since France recognised slavery as a crime against humanity – the first country in the ...