The film "Continent of Africa: Land Below the Sahara" explores the complex history and geography of Africa, particularly focusing on the impact of European colonization and the subsequent rise of ...

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

Gregory Luebbert Book Award, American Political Science Association, 1995. "In this comprehensive and original study, a distinguished scholar of African affairs argues that the crisis in African ...

The American Colonization Society's mission was to relocate freed Black Americans to Africa. Starting in 1820, thousands of Black emigrants were shipped to what would become Liberia. The society's ...

TERVUREN, Belgium (Reuters) - Belgium's Africa Museum will reopen to the public on Sunday after five years of renovations designed to modernize the museum from an exhibition of pro-colonial propaganda ...

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 ...

ST. LOUIS — No matter where you are in the world, there are traces of African presence found on just about every continent. From America to Europe to Asia, there have been artifacts and texts left ...

ANDREW PI BESI | I am often asked why I return, almost instinctively, to history when reflecting on the failures and ...

BRUSSELS — Belgian voters elected the first black mayor in their nation’s history on Sunday — a man originally from the huge swath of central Africa that Belgium brutalized for generations, in one of ...

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 ...