With a couple of exceptions, all the African countries that have witnessed a coup in recent years have one thing in common: ...

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 ...

African leaders convened in Algiers on Sunday for the Conference on the Crimes of Colonialism in Africa. This conference is another step in the African Union's (AU) plan of action to advance justice ...

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

Tanzania has thrown its weight behind a growing continental campaign demanding reparations from former colonial powers, following a landmark meeting of African officials and legal experts in Algiers.

In a historic move, African leaders are advancing plans to file a joint reparation claim against the United Kingdom for ...

Gregory Luebbert Book Award, American Political Science Association, 1995. "In this comprehensive and original study, a distinguished scholar of African affairs argues that the crisis in African ...

This article was originally published by The Conversation. Read the original article. The 2017 French election was watched with great nervousness by millions across Francophone Africa. That's because ...

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The current wave of the U.S. protests bringing down Confederate monuments has echoes in African social movements toppling statues of colonial rulers. Across the U.S., protesters have been taking down ...