Over more than four centuries, the French empire explained itself in many different ways through many different colonial regimes. Beginning in the early modern period, a vast mercantile empire based ...

Since Azerbaijan became the host country of COP29, our relationship with small island developing states (SIDS) has been ...

President Bola Tinubu will begin a two-day trip to France on Thursday, the first state visit by a Nigerian leader in more ...

People in Africa were burdened by colonial perceptions of who they were. The British believed Africans were essentially different from Europeans and would stay that way. This point of view invited ...

He accused the French government of manipulating the economies of mainly former French colonies in Africa, which use a form of the pre-independence currency known as a CFA franc. "France is one of ...

But there is a much longer backstory to the protests, one that takes into account social and political inequality and the lasting legacy of colonialism in the French Caribbean. Martinicans ...