The recent diplomatic spat between Belgium and Rwanda is not an isolated incident but rather a symptom of a much bigger issue. It is a part of a long, ongoing struggle between African nations and ...

Rwanda has cut diplomatic ties with Belgium, saying it has been "consistently undermined" by the European nation during the ...

The colonial categorisation of African peoples into distinct groups such as Bantu, Nilotes, Khoi and other artificial classifications was a deliberate and harmful process .

In December 2024,the Brussels Court of Appeal found Belgium responsible for crimes against humanity over its treatment of ...

In a landmark case addressing the Belgian colonial past in Africa, the five women fought a legal battle over some some six years to make Belgium recognize responsibility for the suffering of ...

Belgium, Rwanda’s former colonial ruler, pushed for the European Union to impose sanction against Rwandan officials over ...

extended their campaign of extermination into former Belgian colonies, particularly the DRC and Burundi. When European colonialists arrived in Africa, their first move was to weaken tribes they ...

Independence for Congo followed a strange course of events unlike anything else in the rest of Africa ... on the part of the former colonial power. King Baudouin of Belgian made a patronising ...

Rwanda said Monday it had given Belgian diplomats 48 hours to leave the country after cutting ties with Brussels. Belgium ...

The Belgian court ruled Friday that the book — published in a new edition in 1946 — was written during the colonial era and that there was no evidence that Belgian cartoonist Hergé willfully ...