Explore how Africa’s colonial borders still shape politics, conflicts, and identities across the continent today.

The Pan-African movement was disrupted by world events in the 1930s and 1940s and did not hold a congress again until after ...

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. More than ...

Most of what you think you know is wrong. What was the relationship between Christian missions and European colonialism in West Africa? For decades Western and African historians have agreed on an ...

"Slavery, Emancipation and Colonial Rule in South Africa examines the rural Cape Colony from the earliest days of Dutch colonial rule in the mid-seventeenth century to the outbreak of the South ...

Introduction -- The origins of European imperialism and the rise of militant Islam -- Background to the Scramble -- The French conquest of the Western Sudan -- The completion of the French occupation ...

Across Africa, many countries have changed names, over time, freeing themselves from the identity given to them during colonial rule.

From the rock shelters of southern Africa to the royal courts of Buganda, fluidity shaped ritual, healing, and community.

BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s president on Wednesday apologized for killings under colonial rule in Tanzania more than a century ago as he met descendants of an executed leader of a revolt against German ...