PARIS – PARIS (AP) — African soldiers from countries in France's former colonial empire marched in the annual Bastille Day military parade in Paris on Wednesday. Planes flew over the capital trailing ...
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 ...
Barely a year goes by in the UK without a public figure igniting a furore by arguing that colonialism somehow benefitted the people it oppressed. But our new book, “Authoritarian Africa: Repression, ...
A group of soldiers appeared on state television in Benin on Sunday to claim they had seized power- a familiar scene playing in West Africa. Within hours, the president announced the coup had been ...
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 ...
President Cyril Ramaphosa has renewed calls for reparations to address the enduring impact of colonialism and slavery on the African continent, arguing that meaningful redress must support development ...
Despite Africa’s many languages and cultures, we take pride in a common identity, in our shared values and in a belonging ...
IN FEBRUARY 2008, beneath the harsh afternoon sun of Accra, US president George W Bush stood before a small gathering of ...
Maano Ramutsindela is an associate professor of environmental and geographical science at the University of Cape Town. Updated July 4, 2014, 12:45 PM The partitioning of Africa by European empires has ...
The activist has condemned France's influence in West Africa and been accused of being a "Russian mouthpiece".