At times, colonial officers bought vast expanses of African territory, or in other instances, scouts simply staked a country’s flag in an African nation to claim it.

Stolen from Africa, enslaved people first arrived in colonial Virginia in 1619. Taken by Portuguese slave traders, kidnapped by English pirates, and taken far from home, African arrivals to ...

Analysis - By 1885, Adolf Lüderitz had acquired vast territories in today's Namibia. But his contracts with local people were so dodgy that even German colonial officials doubted them.

Macron’s Africa 'reset' stumbles as leaders call out colonial overtones. French President Emmanuel Macron’s efforts to “reset” France’s relationship with its former African colonies ...

One of the major problems facing former colonial countries, such as France and its colonies, is their lack of interest in developing these countries. Instead, they focus on benefiting from their ...