In response to the discovery of the omicron variant of the COVID-19 virus by South African scientists, the U.S. has restricted travel from eight southern African nations. This punishment of an African ...

As people around the world mourn the loss of Queen Elizabeth II, her death has incited academics and writers to debate her role in "continued colonialism" in Africa. Britain's longest-reigning monarch ...

Historian Itohan I. Osayimwese's new book examines the legacy of cultural displacement and the looting of Africa’s built ...

We support the establishment of an African Platform for Environmental Justice, tasked with identifying affected areas, assessing the damage, supporting the States concerned, and formulating ...

African nations are intensifying efforts to secure reparations for the colonial-era crimes that caused widespread devastation across the continent and beyond. On Nov. 30, African diplomats and leaders ...

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 ...

The doctrine of imperialism, essentially justification for external control of one people by another, manifests itself in many ways amongst them being varieties of colonialism. These are ...

African leaders used a gathering in Algiers on Sunday to revive a long-standing demand for the world to formally acknowledge colonial-era abuses, treat them as crimes under international law and ...

Namibia has called for the international criminalisation of colonialism, saying global law has "deliberately ignored" atrocities committed in Africa and left a glaring accountability gap that must ...

A year and nine months after the World Health Organization officially declared coronavirus a pandemic, South Africans still have a concerning, lingering distrust for all three vaccines available to ...

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 ...