Across Africa, there is a deep, justified and often emotional conversation about history. Colonialism. Exploitation. Economic ...

Congolese people carry their belongings as they flee from their villages around Sake, in Masisi territory, following clashes ...

For too long, African borders have functioned less as lines of cooperation than as instruments of separation, inherited from ...

IN FEBRUARY 2008, beneath the harsh afternoon sun of Accra, US president George W Bush stood before a small gathering of ...

Contrary to the widespread belief that pre-colonial Africa was entirely without borders, African kingdoms including the Kingdom of Rwanda had clearly defined territorial boundaries. Rwanda, in ...

Who counts as an intellectual? In many traditions, the figure of the intellectual is tied to the search for truth, social ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Benin City, in southern Nigeria, has risen from a history marked by ...

European colonialism, which methodically extracted wealth from Africa until the system’s collapse in the last century, has been replaced by climate colonialism that stifles the economic development ...

Few questions in economic history generate more heat than the one that seems, on the surface, most straightforward: Did ...