Despite (sometimes valid) stereotypes of Africa as a continent where women are often politically and socially marginalized, ...

A new exhibition at Louvre Abu Dhabi is exploring a thousand years of African history through the lens of the continent’s ...

Moroccan novelist Abdellah Taïa’s new book, translated from French to English by Emma Ramadan, ‘Living in Your Light’, goes ...

then-Queen Juliana also returned a saddle and spear seized from Prince Diponegoro, a Javanese nobleman considered a national hero for his struggle against colonial rule in the 19th century. The prince ...

The writer says visiting the Ashanti heartland was a dream long deferred but luckily, an academic conference finally took him there last week.

But the more global these trade networks in the archipelago became, the more foreign influences managed to enter; a development that would eventually lead to the colonial state ... also in Sanskrit, ...

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

The colonial seed was potent and survived all seasons. The Southern African Development Community (SADC) chair, President Nelson Mandela, was pitted through this war against the chair of the SADC ...

Algerian Parliament Speaker Ibrahim Boughali called Thursday for passing a law criminalizing French colonialism amid growing tensions between Algeria and France. Boughali, Speaker of the National ...

Under colonial rule, “disturb[ing] the life of a European” was outlawed; the Frenchman had the final say. My Country, Africa is Blouin’s autobiography, tracking her “own maligned fate ...

Yet even in this context of Pan-Africanism, the candidates largely avoided confronting the deeper realities of neo-colonialism. Africa’s engagement with global powers. Resource extraction and ...

India's history is like a great tapestry woven together with stories of powerful kings and queens whose actions have shaped the culture, politics, and military strength of the nation over centuries.