Portuguese filmmaker Pedro Pinho requires a high level of intellectual engagement from audiences in 216-minute Cannes film 'I ...

In many African cultures, the Griot is more than a storyteller. The Griot is the living archive of the community — a guardian ...

South Africa was readmitted to the Commonwealth ... the Commonwealth has opened its doors to countries that were never British colonies, as it seeks to maintain its relevance in a changing world.

Some former French colonies in Africa are fast gaining notoriety for military coups. Experts blame the worrying trend on high levels of poverty, ineffective civil society and media, as well as ...

Pulitzer-winner's book depicts nuances of German colonization in East Africa : NPR's Book of the Day In Abdulrazak Gurnah's Afterlives, the characters centered in the novel offer different ...

In 2019, Williams met others who were descendants of the freedom colonies in Bastrop County, and together they founded the Bastrop County African American Cultural Center, a nonprofit dedicated ...

The book’s narrator, Charles Marlow, describes his voyage up a river into the interior of an unnamed African country that is obviously Congo in the process of being colonized by Belgium.

An era is coming to an end. France left its colonies decades ago, but old habits and presumptions about French power and dominance across a swath of Africa have endured, symbolized by a ...

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 ...

Political instability in former French colonies in Africa is fast gaining prominence with the latest military takeover in Gabon. Gabonese President Ali Bongo Ondimba was all but set to extend his ...