As African leaders are demanding that former colonisers compensate for the wealth and power built through slavery, the French ...

In Bamako, Mali, on September 16, the governments of Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger created the Alliance of Sahel States (AES). On X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter, Colonel Assimi ...

In his New Year’s address, Alassane Ouattara, president of Ivory Coast since 2010—when he took power with the aid of French military intervention—announced, “We have decided on the coordinated and ...

Due to colonialism, French influence on the continent has been strongest in central and West African Francophone countries, which include those in the arid Sahel region separating the Sahara from the ...

ALGIERS, Algeria (AP) — Legislators in Algeria voted to declare France’s colonization of the North African country a crime, approving a law that calls for restitution of property taken by France ...

The president of the Ivory Coast says he has asked France to withdraw its troops from the West African country. Ivory Coast officially gained independence from French colonial rule in 1960, but France ...

Located 270km north of Dakar, the capital of Senegal, and near the border with Mauritania, is the Island of Saint-Louis. It is a prominent colonial city in West Africa, known for its blend of ...

Dr. Arikana Chihombori-Quao, MD, is a Zimbabwean medical doctor, precisely, a Family Medicine expert, married to the very supportive Ghanaian Pan-Africanist Dr. Nii Saban Quao, MD, specialist in ...

Billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk has dismissed the argument that colonialism is responsible for Africa’s poverty, backing a social media post that challenged the long-standing narrative.Musk made ...

Emmanuel Macron has found himself to be an unpopular figure in parts of Africa. Wikimedia Commons At the same time, Macron has put forward entrepreneurship as the best form of development assistance.