France entered the Cold War determined to hold onto its African empire at all costs. Nationalist movements, global pressure, and Cold War politics quickly undermined that goal. Colonial wars drained ...

Like any other continent, Africa has a large number of countries that, for one reason or another, have vanished from the globe. Here are several examples of African nations that no longer exist.

After the Berlin Conference, Africans were artificially thrown together within colonially defined territories or divided by externally drawn borders. The sovereignty of centralised and non-centralised ...

The latest push by a small group of white farmers in Zimbabwe to drag Donald Trump and the United States government into a fight over land compensation is not just a betrayal of Zimbabwe rsquo;s ...

More than 60 years after most African states gained independence, the legal infrastructure imposed by former colonial powers continues to exert outsized influence. Across the continent, outdated ...