South Africa President Cyril Ramaphosa has warned that Africa should unite and stand its ground to prevent being exploited ...

African Union leaders meeting at at a two-day summit in Addis Ababa have adopted a resolution that describes slavery, ...

A colorized transmission electron micrograph (TEM) of the Ebola virus This post is in collaboration with The John W. Kluge ...

Yesterday during a three-nation tour of Africa, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton had these words of caution for her hosts:Clinton on Saturday warned of a creeping “new colonialism” in Africa ...

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

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 ...

A new working paper from Nobel laureate James A. Robinson finds a vast landscape of 45,000 polities—deliberately fragmented to protect local autonomy ...

Archbishop Joseph Tlhagale of Johannesburg, South Africa said this morning at the Synod for Africa that the continent faces a "second wave of colonization" from "liberalism, secularism and from ...

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 ...

Colonialism is never the easiest subject for discussion—but it's particularly loaded in South Africa. Africa's most industrialized state was for centuries ruled by a mixture of British and Dutch ...

In our series of letters from Africa, Nigerian writer and novelist Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani looks at the backlash over a statement from France's president in which he was accused of diminishing the ...

Regulators in South Africa have banned a TV commercial that depicts a black man discovering a foreign land in the 17th century and naming it Europe. Fast-food restaurant Chicken Licken on Friday was ...