This course is available with permission as an outside option to students on other programmes where regulations permit. This course examines and debates the nature of colonial rule in Africa, its ...

The legacy of colonialism is a deeply complex and often painful subject, evoking different emotions and memories ...

Eve Blouin, daughter of African independence activist Andrée Blouin, speaks to the The World’s Host Marco Werman about a new edition of her mother's autobiography recounting her fight for African ...

The revolution in Portugal lead to the end of colonial rule in Africa. In 1975, Angola and Mozambique became independent and South Africa lost an important ally. South Africa refused to establish ...

African leaders and their former colonial powers may be headed for a showdown as calls for slavery reparations gain momentum.

The historic signing of the Expropriation Bill into law by South African President Cyril Ramaphosa is a momentous victory for ...

The Kenyan head of state told the King that colonial rule had been “brutal and atrocious to African people” and that “much remains to be done in order to achieve full reparations”.

Sam Nujoma, the fiery freedom fighter who led Namibia to independence from apartheid South Africa and German colonial rule in 1990 and served as its first president for 15 years, has died aged 95.

Sam Nujoma, the fiery, white-bearded freedom fighter who led Namibia to independence from apartheid South Africa in 1990 and ...