The five-pointed star represents the freedom of Africa and unity against colonialism. However, the Gold Coast did not get its independence. Instead, soldiers returned to the Gold Coast to high ...

Eve Blouin, daughter of African independence activist Andrée Blouin, speaks to the The World’s Host Marco Werman about a new ...

Imagine a group of nations standing up and saying, Enough is enough . That rsquo;s precisely what rsquo;s happening with Mali ...

Colonial nostalgia and amnesia are treacherous because they perpetuate oppressive narratives, hinder meaningful ...

France had promised the country independence, but also required ... Blouin had begun to develop considerable clout in post-colonial, pan-African circles. She wrote that after Guinea became ...

The current conflict in the DRC is not just a crisis of governance or ethnic tensions but a direct continuation of a colonial ...

A 14-person committee composed of French and Cameroonian historians found France enforced 'extreme violence' in Cameroon ...

The East African country Eritrea has been named a ‘mini Italy’, and with their close links within history, it’s no surprise. In 1890, Eritrea became an Italian colony and was the main base for the ...

In the 1950s and 60s, her mother, the late Andrée Blouin, threw herself into the fight for a free Africa, mobilising the Democratic Republic of Congo's women against colonialism and rising to ...