A French map of Africa, c. 1911 (PD ... with the Allies for both material and human resources (e.g., France used colonial troops along the Western Front). That said, German General Paul von ...

Yet, continued use of blind representations of old colonial boundaries causes us to misread the reality on the ground in many African states and overestimate their empirical effectiveness. The ...

Africans and others have proposed many new maps of Africa ... People living in Africa’s borderlands have long used colonial borders as theaters of opportunities. Transnational parks create ...

Organisers hope the exhibition challenges Western perspectives of Africa, of slavery and colonial exploitation. It is using the Chinese map alongside South African rock art to illustrate the history ...

President Kennedy strongly supported the independence movements of Africa. Starting in 1957, one by one, colonial rulers began to lose ground to charismatic leaders like Ghana’s Kwame Nkrumah.

The average African is worse off now than during the colonial era, the brother of South Africa's President Thabo Mbeki has said. Moeletsi Mbeki accused African elites of stealing money and keeping it ...