The world’s remaining great primary forests, including those in Borneo, the Amazon and the Congo basin, are still threatened ...

In 1893, French missionaries introduced coffee to Kenya, planting the first Bourbon variety seeds from Reunion Island near Nairobi. Two years later, in 1895, the British government declared the region ...

Erik Green, Lund University, investigates European colonialism and the myth of a grand strategy, setting forth the case of ...

For many, Macron’s speech brought to mind a similar speech he made in Ouagadougou in 2017 in which he stressed his country’s resolve to change its post-colonial policies towards Africa.

In the late 19th century, driven by profit motives, Western colonial powers forcibly seized land from indigenous communities in East Africa to establish plantations for cash crops like coffee. In 1893 ...

The program is funded by a portion of a gift from Princeton 1970 alumnus William Fung of Hong Kong that is designed to ...

A selection of the week's best photos from across the African continent and beyond: It's time for football on Tuesday in Dakar, Senegal, where these men play on sand near the beach. MOHAMED ABD EL ...

Legacy of French colonialism. The origins of Algeria’s anonymity lie in the recent past. Between 1830 and 1962, it was the most prized possession of the French empire.

Hamina, whose 1975 drama Chronicles of the Years of Fire remains Africa’s only Cannes Palme d’Or to this day, has died at the age of 91. Lakhdar-Hamina’s family said the producer and director died at ...

Africa, Europe France-Algeria ties strain under weight of colonial legacy, far-right politics After tit-for-tat expulsions over an activist’s alleged abduction, France and Algeria face another ...

He wrote best-sellers like “The Day of the Jackal” and “The Dogs of War,” often using material from his earlier life as a ...

Namibia on Wednesday held its first national commemoration for the victims of mass killings by colonial-era German troops, in what is widely recognised as the first genocide of the 20th century.