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

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

After World War II, France struggled to hold onto its vast African colonies. Nationalist movements, Cold War rivalries, and ...

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

This is one of the essays that was awarded the top prize in the annual Canon Collins Troubling Power Essay Competition, which invites participants to write on social justice issues relevant to Souther ...

National laws aimed at redressing colonial imbalances reserve retail sectors, like that of brickmaking, for locals. But companies with outside investment, particularly from China, routinely flout the ...

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

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

Italy’s stance on its historical atrocities against Ethiopia, Eritrea and Somalia contradicts principles in its Mattei Plan for Africa.

Across the African continent, from Madagascar to Morocco, young people known as Generation Z, are taking to the streets demanding social justice, and their voices to be heard.

Over the 20th century, the PAC evolved from a reformist platform led by Black intellectuals in the diaspora to a radical, African-led movement advocating political independence, economic control, and ...