Explore how Africa’s colonial borders still shape politics, conflicts, and identities across the continent today.

Africa is facing a new and devastating colonial invasion driven by a determination to plunder the natural resources of the continent, especially its strategic energy and mineral resources. That’s the ...

Many today believe the era of colonialism in Africa is over. They’re wrong. The era of colonialism in Africa has merely entered a new and insidious phase. Some call it “neo-colonialism.” I call it ...

The Transatlantic slave trade (15th-19th centuries) led to the forced exportation of more than 15 million people from Africa.

Leaders at this year’s African Union summit have condemned Israel’s assault on Gaza and called for its immediate end. Kenyan writer and political analyst Nanjala Nyabola explains the long history of ...

Archbishop Joseph Tlhagale of Johannesburg, South Africa said this morning at the Synod for Africa that the continent faces a "second wave of colonization" from "liberalism, secularism and from ...

A high-profile South African politician has apologized after defending aspects of colonialism. Helen Zille, the former leader of the opposition Democratic Alliance (DA), posted a series of messages on ...

Heavy criticism of the West imposing secular values on Africa in exchange for aid emerged as a theme from the continent's bishops, as the Vatican's synod on the family kicks off its first week. From ...

The need to confront the West’s imposition of its values over Africa’s traditional family values is one of the themes the African bishops bring to the synod on the family. Cardinal Napier is one of ...

From the rock shelters of southern Africa to the royal courts of Buganda, fluidity shaped ritual, healing, and community.