Two Nairobi women face colonial past in 'How to Build a Library,' working to revive three Kenyan libraries in disrepair. Read ...

Eve Blouin, daughter of African independence activist Andrée Blouin, speaks to The World’s Host Marco Werman about a new ...

Forecasts suggest that by 2100 a majority of the world’s babies will be African, leading to predictions of an “African ...

In his New Year’s address, Alassane Ouattara, president of Ivory Coast since 2010—when he took power with the aid of French ...

French President Emmanuel Macron’s efforts to “reset” France’s relationship with its former African colonies appear to be ...

Amid a decade-long push by African countries to abolish colonial-era wigs in judicial systems, posts have surfaced online claiming Burkina Faso’s President Captain Ibrahim Traore has officially banned ...

To what extent do Chinese training programs for African journalists provide alternatives to overcome (historically Western) colonial practices of knowledge production, or instead perpetuate those same ...

Centuries of being overshadowed and misrepresented by colonial and other external perspectives have portrayed the continent ...

The historic Battle of Isandlwana's 146th anniversary came alive as history enthusiasts, including British soldiers and local ...

The Ruth J. Simmons Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice collaborated with the Smithsonian Institution to create a new ...

Colonial nostalgia and amnesia are treacherous because they perpetuate oppressive narratives, hinder meaningful ...

“Longstanding resentment towards former colonial powers in francophone African countries has been shaped by a history of oppressive rule and disregard for local populations,” he wrot ...