Many today believe the era of colonialism in Africa is over. They’re wrong. The era of colonialism in Africa has merely entered a new and insidious phase. Some call it “neo-colonialism.” I call it colonialism 2.0. In colonialism 1.0, Western and ...

IN FEBRUARY 2008, beneath the harsh afternoon sun of Accra, US president George W Bush stood before a small gathering of journalists and dismissed swirling rumours with a chuckle. The US, he claimed,

Do you know what African countries were called post-independence and colonialism? Names hold great significance, often speaking to a country’s past and cultural identity. While many African countries were named by colonial powers, some have since ...

The American Colonization Society, founded in 1816 to assist free black people in emigrating to Africa, was the brainchild of the Reverend Robert Finley, a Presbyterian minister from Basking Ridge, New Jersey. Finley believed that blacks would never be ...

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colonialism, which methodically extracted wealth from Africa until the system’s collapse in the last century, has been replaced by climate colonialism that stifles the economic development that the continent desperately needs. A highly political ...

A new collection of essays, including a short one by Mamdani himself, seeks to address the wide-ranging issues which his work raised but did exhaust. On the Subject of Citizenship: Late Colonialism in the World Today edited by Suren Pillay is published by ...

Most British colonial governors ultimately reach the point where they stand by, erect and proud, as the Union Jack flutters down over some distant possession and the flag of independence is run up. As the new session of Parliament began in Salisbury ...

French President Emmanuel Macron urged investment in Africa at the start of an economic summit in Nairobi, Kenya, aimed at renewing France's engagement with the continent. He also put forward France's new legislation easing the return of objects looted during the colonial era.