This article was originally published by The Conversation. Read the original article. The 2017 French election was watched with great nervousness by millions across Francophone Africa. That's because ...

Placards and slogans against France that surfaced in demonstrations against impeached President Andry Rajoelina this week ...

UPDATES with French response on unpaid pension. Pictures by John Wessels. Video by Magatte Gaye "They made us join up to wage war," said Ndiogou Dieye, 103, casting his memory back more than eight ...

France's parliament on Monday approved returning to Ivory Coast a "talking drum" that colonial troops took from the Ebrie tribe in 1916, in the latest boost to the repatriation of colonial spoils. The ...

Investigations into one of the worst massacres in France's colonial history took a step forward on Thursday when researchers ...

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A new bar in Lyon, France, is drawing anger for its nostalgic use of French colonialism (and its attendant atrocities, including slavery) as a theme. La Première Plantation (“The First Plantation” in ...

PARIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Colonies designs and runs living spaces offering its inhabitants the comfort of fully furnished private spaces and access to shared living spaces in a spirit of community (gyms ...

Senegal's chief of the general staff, General Mbaye Cisse, right, and French General Pascal Ianni, who commands France's troops in Africa, salute as the Senegalese flag is raised during a ceremony to ...