Explore how Africa’s colonial borders still shape politics, conflicts, and identities across the continent today.

Recent books, The Heretic of Cacheu by Toby Green and Worlds of Unfreedom by Roquinaldo Ferreira, painstakingly recreate the ...

Colonial rule ensured that future leaders would face a major struggle to assert their authority. It did this by creating states with limited capacity to provide services and police their own ...

The term “Françafrique” describes the political, economic and military networks built to preserve French influence in Africa.

The Transatlantic slave trade (15th-19th centuries) led to the forced exportation of more than 15 million people from Africa.

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 ...

Bula Matari and the contemporary African crisis -- On the state -- The nature and genesis of the colonial state -- Constructing Bula Matari -- The colonial state institutionalized -- Toward African ...

Did Christian missionaries help or harm Africa during the colonial period? Were the missionaries perceived as a threat by Muslims in the Middle East? These were the issues addressed by Asian and ...

Judges and lawyers in Ghana still wear the full British-style regalia: wigs, black gowns and stiff collars. The call for ...

From the rock shelters of southern Africa to the royal courts of Buganda, fluidity shaped ritual, healing, and community.