Did Christian missionaries help or harm Africa during the colonial period? Were the missionaries perceived as a threat by Muslims in the Middle East? These were the issues addressed by Asian and ...

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 ...

The man-eating lions of Tsavo may be no more. The silverware in the restaurant carriage has definitely seen better days. And where once besuited British colonial administrators occupied the elegant, ...

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 ...

When historians and the public think about the end of domestic slavery in west Africa, they often imagine colonial governors issuing decrees and missionaries working to end local traffic in enslaved ...

In 1825, a tax collector compiling a census in South Africa’s Cape Colony paused to write a poem in the margin of his work.