The Pan-African movement was disrupted by world events in the 1930s and 1940s and did not hold a congress again until after ...

Historian Zikhona Valela says the war, fought between Boer settlers and British colonial forces in the Transvaal, lasted less ...

Introduction -- The origins of European imperialism and the rise of militant Islam -- Background to the Scramble -- The French conquest of the Western Sudan -- The completion of the French occupation ...

Most of what you think you know is wrong. What was the relationship between Christian missions and European colonialism in West Africa? For decades Western and African historians have agreed on an ...

Worshipped as a fierce mother, Maa Kali inspired devotion and fearlessness. Her image became a rallying symbol, shaping ...

From anti-protest legislation to moral policing and land dispossession, the legal relics of the colonial empire still reinforce authoritarianism and elite control decades after independence. More than ...

The heads of state of Germany and Britain both expressed regret this week over atrocities their nations committed in the colonial period in Africa. German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier sought ...

In 1913, the white-run, self-governing administration running South Africa under British colonial rule passed legislation that restricted the property rights of the country's black majority. The ...

Tate Modern’s timely exhibition brings together the pioneers of a diasporic movement invested in freedom, optimism and ...

The British Museum has announced a major new collaboration with Guyanese-British artist Hew Locke. The institution has commissioned new works by the artist that will respond directly to items from its ...