Rwanda today on July 1 marks 62 years of independence from Belgian colonial rule. While in the true sense of independence the day carries little or no significance, we are reminded not of the triumph ...

Now, at 37, he's celebrated throughout Africa and around the world as a smooth ... particularly with youth and rural poor who have grown disillusioned with decades of post-colonial rule. He has ...

The study concludes that it was with the help of this enormous wealth that Britain was able to implement its expansionist colonial policy in Asia, Ceylon, Aden, Hong Kong, Singapore, Rangoon, and ...

Ancient Indian texts showed some preference for fair skin, often associating it with nobility and divinity, while dark skin ...

CIA Director, Allen Dulles, labelled him “a Castro in Africa.” President Eisenhower reportedly gave the order for his assassination. In classified 1960 cables and memos, Lumumba was ...

Political parties brace for a tense week of budget votes, with the DA vowing to oppose the budgets of certain ANC ministers in protest over the President’s dismissal of DA Deputy Minister Andrew ...

Ibrahim Traoré, Burkina Faso’s leader, counts admirers from Nairobi to Jamaica and London. Russia is also courting him.

On Wednesday, June 25 morning, Kenyans woke up to a striking and chilling sight: Parliament and the road to State House — the symbolic heart of the republic — had been barricaded with coils of barbed ...

The Nation Newspaper Senate to meet ambassadors, High Commissioners of African countries over colonial injustices ...

Make finger puppets, go all out for the Fourth of July, and taste the flavors of the Caribbean.

First, they prevented any Chagossians who had left on vacation or for medical treatment from returning home. Next, they cut ...

In the sweltering heat of January 1947, the streets of Abeokuta trembled under the footsteps of thousands of women. Draped in ...