On the surface, it’s just an old map—but every border tells a deeper story. This 1935 view of Africa offers a striking look into colonial power and how it shaped the continent ...

The Pan-African Progressive Front has released a communiqué calling for reparations in Africa following the completion of a continent-wide survey.

It was unlike any book they had ever seen,” Carrie Gibson writes in The Great Resistance: The 400-Year Fight to End Slavery ...

Drawing a balance sheet of post-colonial rule is indispensable. Clarifying which leaderships and programmes failed, why they ...

Yet despite its apparent absurdity, its journey is a reminder of how few modern boats ply African waterways, and how much ...

Algerian legislators have declared France's colonization a crime, demanding restitution for property taken during its 130-year rule. France criticized the law as a "hostile act" that ...

Information has emerged about plans by some African leaders to seek compensation from the United Kingdom for crimes committed during the colonial era. The move gathered momentum at a recent high-level ...

African leaders are advancing plans to file a coordinated reparation claim against the United Kingdom for crimes committed during the colonial era, signaling a united legal and diplomatic effort to ...

There is an old idea about nations that the political scientist Benedict Anderson described as an imagined community. The borders of a state are not only physical lines drawn by surveyors. They are ...

African leaders have made a new push to have colonial-era crimes recognised, criminalised and addressed through reparations. At a conference in Algiers on Sunday, diplomats and leaders convened to ...

African leaders convened in Algiers on Sunday for the Conference on the Crimes of Colonialism in Africa. The conference was another step in the African Union’s plan of action to advance justice and ...