Ghana was one of the first African countries to do this ... of Ghana on 6 March 1957. Ghanaian Independence Day has been celebrated on 6 March every year since. A stateswoman, teacher and artist ...

Africa's youngest nation, South Sudan, celebrated 13 years of independence on July 9. Yet in that short amount of time, the country has had to endure a seven-year civil war. In 2017, the UN ...

Ethiopia, meanwhile, is Africa's oldest independent country, and the second largest in terms of population. Other than a five-year long occupation ... a symbol of African independence throughout ...

SINCE Ghana joined the International Monetary Fund in September 1957, the country has spent more of its post-independence ...

France waged a war marked by "extreme violence" during Cameroon's fight for independence in the late 1950s, historians said ...

A year later, Guinea secured its independence by voting "No ... and film screenings - all underpinned by a pan-African ethos. And through My Country, Africa, Blouin's extraordinary story is ...