The film "Continent of Africa: Land Below the Sahara" explores the complex history and geography of Africa, particularly focusing on the impact of European colonization and the subsequent rise of ...

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 ...

Africa’s crises are routinely framed as internal and self-generated. Conflict is presented as dysfunction. Poverty as ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

Most of what you think you know is wrong. What was the relationship between Christian missions and European colonialism in West Africa? For decades Western and African historians have agreed on an ...

ALGIERS, Algeria (AP) — African leaders pushed Sunday to have colonial-era crimes recognized, criminalized and addressed through reparations. At a conference in Algiers, diplomats and leaders convened ...

Conservative commentator Candace Owens said the British colonization of Africa "ended up being a net positive" while defending the royal family amid revived criticism over their role in English ...

In the 17th century, life along what would become the Delaware coast included European families working alongside enslaved Africans to farm the land and survive a rugged pioneer life. The recent ...

BRUSSELS — Belgian voters elected the first black mayor in their nation’s history on Sunday — a man originally from the huge swath of central Africa that Belgium brutalized for generations, in one of ...

Bula Matari and the contemporary African crisis -- On the state -- The nature and genesis of the colonial state -- Constructing Bula Matari -- The colonial state institutionalized -- Toward African ...