Africa’s modern map tells a story centuries in the making, yet much of it was drawn by foreign powers with little regard for local realities. Straight lines carved across rivers, mountains, and ...

Colonialism has been a central part of history around the world, differing only in form over time and space. After all, ...

Beneath the dust of colonial archives lies another Africa—one painted in ochre and song, where healers crossed gender and love itself remade the world. Long before Victorian law or missionary decree, ...

In what the publisher describes as “an original history of race-making, belonging and rights,” Jean-Baptiste investigates the fluctuating identities of “métis,” referring to the multiracial children ...

(Berlin, November 18, 2024) – Experts from the African continent and its global diasporas called on European governments to address their colonial past and ongoing impacts at the Dekoloniale Berlin ...

A new exhibit at London's Victoria and Albert Museum focuses on fashion from Africa. The exhibit's curator says it's a way for the museum to acknowledge its colonial legacy. London's Victoria and ...

In the late 1950s Pan-African activist Andrée Blouin contributed to Sékou Touré’s campaign for independence in Guinea, then helped Patrice Lumumba’s electoral campaign in the Belgian Congo, before ...

Poverty especially on an absolute scale, is a devastating economic/financial disease afflicting most (if not all) human societies across diverse geographies and time periods. However, the intensity ...

Nick Bernards shows long-term failures of microfinance in his book ‘A Critical History of Poverty Finance: Colonial Roots and Neoliberal Failures’. The burden of proof that microfinance makes any ...