The colonization of Africa was an extractive project driven by a lust for resources. The extraction was done with notable brutality in parts of central Africa and with a distinct lack of sentiment ...

Every so often publishers make a leap of faith to bring a groundbreaking book to light in English after it was written and published decades earlier in another language. This summer, readers can ...

Colonial legacies have significantly shaped global health, creating power imbalances between the Global North and the Global ...

A documentary, ‘The Decolonisation of Africa’, has premiered at The Metropolitan Club, Lagos. Hosted by Accelerate Media Group, Executive Producer, Colette Otusheso explained the origin of the project ...

Nigerian intellectual and historian Toyin Falola’s latest book is called Decolonizing African Studies: Knowledge Production, Agency, and Voice. It sets out to respond to the urgent need to eliminate ...

Here is a snapshot of major French military interventions in Africa since decolonisation in the 1960s, after the announcement Monday that France had completed its pullout from Mali. The Barron's news ...

In his most recent work, Neither Settler Nor Native: The Making and Unmaking of Permanent Minorities, political theorist Mahmood Mamdani proposes a framework for decolonisation of the postcolonial ...

Marking the 63rd anniversary of Africa Day, Carl Niehaus argues that Africa’s liberation and development depend on full continental unity through a “United State of Africa”.