Explore how Africa’s colonial borders still shape politics, conflicts, and identities across the continent today.

From the rock shelters of southern Africa to the royal courts of Buganda, fluidity shaped ritual, healing, and community.

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 Transatlantic slave trade (15th-19th centuries) led to the forced exportation of more than 15 million people from Africa.

Bula Matari and the contemporary African crisis -- On the state -- The nature and genesis of the colonial state -- Constructing Bula Matari -- The colonial state institutionalized -- Toward African ...

The term “Françafrique” describes the political, economic and military networks built to preserve French influence in Africa. It refers to a past era but many believe that it still shapes relations ...

Judges and lawyers in Ghana still wear the full British-style regalia: wigs, black gowns and stiff collars. The call for ...

The Oscar-nominated documentary Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat has received critical success through it’s focus on an international incident, a relationship between developing countries in a ...

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 ...

Many today believe the era of colonialism in Africa is over. They’re wrong. The era of colonialism in Africa has merely entered a new and insidious phase. Some call it “neo-colonialism.” I call it ...

European colonialism, which methodically extracted wealth from Africa until the system’s collapse in the last century, has been replaced by climate colonialism that stifles the economic development ...

Holes in the ground, clods of earth next to headstones, dislocated concrete outlines: the Thiaroye military cemetery near ...