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.

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 ...

Over the 20th century, the PAC evolved from a reformist platform led by Black intellectuals in the diaspora to a radical, African-led movement advocating political independence, economic control, and ...

Professor Isabel Hofmeyr opened her lecture Monday evening by taking the audience underwater. At the start of her talk, she detailed the dumping of books deemed unacceptable by the British Empire’s ...

The historical origins of anti-sodomy laws in Africa are deeply rooted in the colonial era, when European powers imposed ...

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 ...