PARIS – PARIS (AP) — African soldiers from countries in France's former colonial empire marched in the annual Bastille Day military parade in Paris on Wednesday. Planes flew over the capital trailing ...

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 ...

Gregory Luebbert Book Award, American Political Science Association, 1995. "In this comprehensive and original study, a distinguished scholar of African affairs argues that the crisis in African ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When historians and the public think about the end of domestic slavery in west Africa, they often imagine colonial governors ...

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South Sudan’s independence July 9 could encourage secession efforts elsewhere in sub-Saharan Africa, but elites in those countries will likely stymie those attempts at challenging colonial borders, at ...