Francoise Vergès is affiliated with Sarah Parker Remont Center for the Study of Race and Racialization, UCL, London, Distinguished Senior Fellow Researcher,. European colonisation of Africa was not ...

Africa’s modern map tells a story centuries in the making, yet much of it was drawn by foreign powers with little regard for local realities. Straight lines carved across rivers, mountains, and ...

Africa’s crises are routinely framed as internal and self-generated. Conflict is presented as dysfunction. Poverty as ...

Beneath the dust of colonial archives lies another Africa—one painted in ochre and song, where healers crossed gender and love itself remade the world. Long before Victorian law or missionary decree, ...

Algerian foreign minister says African countries and peoples continue to pay a heavy price for colonialism African leaders are pushing to have colonial-era crimes recognised, criminalised and ...

Associate Professor, Faculty of Humanities, Johannesburg Institute for Advanced Study, University of Johannesburg The violence of the past is far from over. But it is disguised in many ways, made ...

Nov 13 (Openly) - Namibia's High Court will rule next May in a case that could see the southern African country overturn a colonial-era ban on same-sex relations. Friedel Dausab, who is gay, is ...

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 ...

In the late 1950s Pan-African activist Andrée Blouin contributed to Sékou Touré’s campaign for independence in Guinea, then helped Patrice Lumumba’s electoral campaign in the Belgian Congo, before ...

A quick glance today at the cities of the African continent reveals a rich diversity of urban settlements, ranging in type from rural enclaves to sprawling metropolises. That quick glance also reveals ...