Germany has over the past years made strides in coming to terms with a dark era of its past, the colonial rule of large swaths of Africa ...

One of Africa's biggest countries has demoted French as its official language in favour of a native West African language.

The revolution in Portugal lead to the end of colonial rule in Africa. In 1975, Angola and Mozambique became independent and South Africa lost an important ally. South Africa refused to establish ...

Italy was last to join in the contest of the powers for the appropriation of African resources ... dictated by inexorable economic and political necessity. Thus the colonial dominions of Italy came to ...

Tanjuh, whose family says she is about 120 years old, is one of the last living witnesses to European colonial rule in Africa and her Bangwa people’s fierce resistance against German colonisation.

Akbar Novruz Read more The 4th session of the Permanent Forum of Peoples of African Descent has officially begun at the UN ...

Resentment over the history of colonial rule has dominated African identity, creating openings for Beijing and Moscow. Historically, the United States was reticent to stymie the involvement of ...

One was named Maji-Maji-Allee to remember the Maji Maji Rebellion against colonial rule in German East Africa. The other was named after Anna Mungunda, who fought against apartheid in Namibia ...