When African countries gained independence from their colonial rulers, they faced many changes. One of the most important changes for many countries was switching from the colonial currency to their ...

Since the Cold War, competition between foreign powers for influence in Africa has spurred a great debate. With a focus on ...

Decolonization gets the ultimate needle-drop treatment in the documentary “Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat” from Belgian filmmaker Johan Grimonprez. It’s a dazzling, tune-filled collage of images, words ...

Africa’s leaders must urgently rationalise the mission of regional integration and ensure that common political values ...

Juneteenth is widely celebrated within the United States, marking the day that freedom reached all slaves in Confederate states during the American Civil War. Ultimately, chattel slavery was outlawed ...

Unless I can meet at least some of these aspirations, my head will roll just as surely as the tickbird follows the rhino. —Julius Nyerere (1961) The aspirations that accompanied African independence ...

Eastern Africa has the oldest and the youngest independent states in Africa. Ethiopia is said to date from Solomon’s day and has verifiable beginnings about the beginning of the Christian era. Its ...

In the brief history of African decolonisation, it was a watershed year. Seventeen African territories won their independence from their European colonial masters that year. These ranged from Nigeria ...

The poverty of African historiography is a text of a lecture delivered by Prof. A.E. Afigbo. The independence of Africa and cultural decolonisation first appeared in the Unesco Courrier, Jan. 1972 and ...