European colonialism, which methodically extracted wealth from Africa until the system’s collapse in the last century, has been replaced by climate colonialism that stifles the economic development ...

European governments must acknowledge and take responsibility for the enduring consequences of their colonial pasts, which continue to affect people of African descent both in Africa and throughout ...

Europe is quick to denounce Trump’s imperial fantasies while defending its own colonial past and present.

(Berlin, November 18, 2024) – Experts from the African continent and its global diasporas called on European governments to address their colonial past and ongoing impacts at the Dekoloniale Berlin ...

The Vatican has formally rejected the Catholic Church’s “Doctrine of Discovery,” used to justify European colonialism in Africa and the Americas, which dates from “papal bulls” issued in the 1450s. In ...

The colonization of Africa was an extractive project driven by a lust for resources. The extraction was done with notable brutality in parts of central Africa and with a distinct lack of sentiment ...

Colonialism did not begin with Europe, and it did not skip Africa. Long before European empires rose African powers expanded conquered and dominated neighboring peoples across vast regions. From Egypt ...

Andrée Blouin’s revolutionary lives. The African political leader’s autobiography, My Country, Africa, also offers a larger story of empire, oppression, and resistance on the continent. Throughout the ...

Using ancient DNA, researchers have determined cattle were imported from Africa to the Americas much earlier in the process of European colonization than documented. The first records of African ...