African leaders used a gathering in Algiers on Sunday to revive a long-standing demand for the world to formally acknowledge colonial-era abuses, treat them as crimes under international law and ...
Leaders at this year’s African Union summit have condemned Israel’s assault on Gaza and called for its immediate end. Kenyan writer and political analyst Nanjala Nyabola explains the long history of ...
Names hold great significance, often speaking to a country’s past and cultural identity. While many African countries were named by colonial powers, some have since reverted to names that better ...
(A review of ‘African Identities: Absence, Loss, and the Quest for Self-Definition’ by Toyin Falola)Few concepts in African studies appear as self-evident as “African identity”. Yet, as V. Y. Mudimbe ...
THE Africa Forward Summit, recently held in Nairobi, Kenya, remains fresh in the minds of many who follow African development ...
Many see the rivalry between France and Senegal as a result of colonial heritage. But at the same time, European teams are ...
The modern colonial city is an important type of human settlement, its historical urban form serves as both a material carrier of European modern urban planning ideas after the Renaissance and a ...
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The American Colonization Society, founded in 1816 to assist free black people in emigrating to Africa, was the brainchild of the Reverend Robert Finley, a Presbyterian minister from Basking Ridge, ...
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