The term “Françafrique” describes the political, economic and military networks built to preserve French influence in Africa.

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

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

National laws aimed at redressing colonial imbalances reserve retail sectors, like that of brickmaking, for locals. But ...

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

Italy’s stance on its historical atrocities against Ethiopia, Eritrea and Somalia contradicts principles in its Mattei Plan for Africa.

This is one of the essays that was awarded the top prize in the annual Canon Collins Troubling Power Essay Competition, which invites participants to write on social justice issues relevant to Souther ...

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

The Horn of Africa's chronic instability stems from post-colonial borders. A new approach is needed for lasting peace and ...

The colonized is elevated above his jungle status in proportion to his adoption of the mother country’s cultural standards”,– Frantz Fanon, Black Skin, White Masks In the nineteenth century, ...