Historian Itohan I. Osayimwese's new book examines the legacy of cultural displacement and the looting of Africa’s built ...

I recently came across yet another article urging Africans to “reclaim” their identity, lamenting the use of foreign languages, inherited borders, imported religions, and supposedly alien political ...

Ms. Fulford is the author of “The Exiled: Empire, Immigration and the Ugandan Asian Exodus.” When I was young, I would sometimes tell other children that my mother was from India, and other times from ...

ALGIERS, Algeria (AP) — African leaders pushed Sunday to have colonial-era crimes recognized, criminalized and addressed through reparations. At a conference in Algiers, diplomats and leaders convened ...

A new exhibition at the Africa Museum in Belgium takes a frank look at a large-scale propaganda painting and the institution’s own past role in adding to the spin. By Nina Siegal Reporting from ...

More than 60 years after most African states gained independence, the legal infrastructure imposed by former colonial powers continues to exert outsized influence. Across the continent, outdated ...

Since war broke out between Israel and Hamas, the anti-Israel trope of "settler-colonialism"—or foreign Jews displacing indigenous Palestinians has reemerged. The irony is that real ...

In later decades, ugali, the ubiquitous Kenyan staple made from maize meal, became more common at street food eateries, as ...

Most of what you think you know is wrong. What was the relationship between Christian missions and European colonialism in West Africa? For decades Western and African historians have agreed on an ...

BERLIN (AP) — Mnyaka Sururu Mboro is still driven by the promise he gave his grandmother when he left Tanzania for Germany almost 50 years ago: to bring back for a proper burial the head of a local ...