New project set to rename public spaces bearing names of colonial officers as Dakar distances itself from France.

While France embraced the formal regulation of historical memory regarding its colonial past nearly two decades ago with the ...

The British Empire stretched over 13 million square miles across several continents—23 percent of the world's land—at its height in 1922, whence comes the phrase: "The sun never sets on the ...

France had two bites of the cherry when it came to empire-building. Its North American possessions had already been lost when French leaders began a colonial reboot in the 19th century. The second ...

The Senegalese government is seeking to redefine its long-standing relationship with its former colonial rulers, the French, ...

All the Latest Game Footage and Images from Battle of Empires: 1914-1918 - French Campaign The first campaign of the series - Battle of Empires: France - is devoted to the battles between the ...

The Architecture of Empire: France in India and Southeast Asia, 1664-1962 by Gauvin A. Bailey McGill-Queen’s University Press 2022. 488 pp. (cloth), ISBN 978-0-228-01142-2 Reviewed by Rachael Maxon ...

The northern city of Saint Louis, or Ndar in the predominant Wolof language, is renowned for its pastel-coloured colonial houses and was the capital of French West Africa until 1902.