The transition from empire to nation-states was far from smooth. Most imperial governments hoped to transform their empires ...

More recent estimates put his worth closer to $2.1billion (£1.7bn), which would still make him significantly richer than ...

In The Unseen Truth, Sarah Lewis examines how an erroneous 18th-century story about the “Caucasian ... “You will find yourselves in Africa, by-and-by.” George Kennan, an explorer and one ...

As an East African bloc urged an immediate ceasefire in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, Rwandan-backed M23 rebels who ...

Coffee must have been the secret weapon of Greek, Slav, and Albanian mercenary units, the stratioti, that fought together throughout Europe in the 15th to 18th centuries. The stratioti must have ...

Marcus Garvey ignited one of the most phenomenal social movements in modern history and was admired around the world. Yet few ...

Now that the complete dismantling of the U.S. government looks as though it’s going to require a third full week, the people who are paying attention have begun to appreciate ...

Nearly 300 foreign mercenaries hired by the Democratic Republic of Congo government to counter a swift offensive by ...

Cool, compact and creative, the ‘Windy City of Africa’ is a place of two halves, where a centuries-old medina (old town) full of scented spice and chattering street sellers sits cheek by jowl with the ...

The Black Europe Film Festival‘s final day focused on lesser-known Black history in The Art of Remembering: Black Lives in ...