The Indomitable Lions, Bafana Bafana and the Super Eagles have all been competing at the 35th edition of the Africa Cup of ...

By Chike ObidigboA Legacy of DivisionIn Nigeria, Africa’s most populous nation, two groups face persistent discrimination that traces back over a century to British colonial rule: the Igbo ethnic ...

On Christmas Day in 1497, Vasco da Gama rounded the southern tip of Africa. He named the land he encountered Natalis--Portuguese for Christmas. Today, it is known as KwaZulu-Natal.Da Gama's voyage ...

Hyderabad: A whopping $65 trillion is the “value of resources” that the British extracted during their 200-year colonial rule in India, according to a 2024 Oxfam research study. Though the claims ...

More than 600 items from a collection documenting the links between Britain and countries in the former British Empire were stolen from a U.K. museum in September, police said Thursday. Avon and ...

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An unemployed Prussian drillmaster named Baron von Steuben clutches his (largely fabricated) letters of recommendation as he awaits a job interview in Pennsylvania. Molly Brant, a Haudenosaunee ...

Nov. 6 (UPI) --South African President Cyril Ramaphosa ordered an investigation Thursday into how at least 17 South African citizens ended up fighting as mercenaries in the Donbas region of Ukraine, ...

An exhibition at London’s Imperial War Museum offers a welcome corrective to the nostalgia for empire common among Britain’s elites. In Kenya, tens of thousands of men and women were held for years ...

When the British Empire loosened its grip on Africa, it left behind more than borders and bureaucracies. It also left behind wigs – long, white, horsehair locks once worn by King George III and ...

Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair is returning to the international limelight as the prospective head of an authority tasked with the reconstruction of Gaza. Blair would bring years of ...