DIEN BIEN PHU, Vietnam (AP) — Vietnam on Tuesday celebrated the 70th anniversary of the battle of Dien Bien Phu in which the French colonial army was defeated by Vietnamese troops, marking the end of ...

Azerbaijan's authoritarian president, Ilham Aliyev, is an unlikely champion for the victims of French colonialism. But as chairman of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM), that is precisely how he is ...

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To speak today of the French Colonial Empire is, of course, to speak of something belonging to the past. Juridically speaking, the Empire replaced it by the vague and never clearly defined concept of ...

The idea of anticolonial translation — picking works, and approaches to those works, that resist or examine the effects of empire — has gained increasing sway among English-language translators and ...

A century after it was taken away during the colonial era, a sacred drum central to the traditions of Ivory Coast’s Atchan community has finally been returned from France. French authorities formally ...

May 7, 2024, marked the 70th anniversary of the battle of Dien Bien Phu, when Vietnamese troops defeated the French colonial army, ending almost a century of French colonial rule. A commemoration ...

(KFVS) - U.S. Senators Tammy Duckworth (D-IL) and Dick Durbin (D-IL) introduced legislation to establish the Prairie du Rocher French Colonial National Historical Park. This park would include sites ...

“Cette femme qui voit sans être vue frustre le colonisateur. Il n’y a pas réciprocité.” These words, written in 1959 by Algerian revolutionary Frantz Fanon, described the deep frustration of the ...