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

Abdulrazak Gurnah is receiving worldwide attention after being awarded last year’s Nobel Prize in Literature. His latest novel “Afterlives” is set in colonial East Africa occupied by Germany in the ...

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 ...

Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, November/December 2025, pp. 68-69, 71 Special Report By Mustafa Fetouri LAST ...

British colonial rule in Nigeria lasted for decades, shaping the country’s political, economic, and social structures. Today, several places across Nigeria still bear the marks of this era, from ...

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 ...

"This group of studies first appeared as a special issue of Slavery and abolition, vol. 19, no. 2, August 1998"--T.p. verso. Slavery and the slave trade as international issues, 1890-1939 / Suzanne ...

Abdulrazak Gurnah is receiving worldwide attention after being awarded last year’s Nobel Prize in Literature. His latest novel “Afterlives” is set in colonial East Africa occupied by Germany in the ...

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 ...

BRUSSELS/DAKAR (Reuters) - Belgium's King Philippe is on his first visit to former colony Democratic Republic of Congo, where many remain angry at Belgium's failure to apologise for decades of brutal ...

A Tanzanian family tries to reclaim their ancestor's remains more than 100 years after German colonial powers stole them.