South African artist Tyla has been one of Africa's most prominent figures over the past year, closing 2024 as she began ...

Happy holidays! As we do at the end of each year, The Review asked a dozen of our contributors to recommend scholarly books that thrilled, surprised, challenged, and delighted them. This year the ...

On June 13, 1959, the Watha hunter Galogalo Kafonde surrendered himself to colonial Kenya’s “Field Force,” Africa’s first ...

Decades after independence, colonial-era laws have created a mass-incarceration crisis in Sierra Leone as poor citizens are ...

Death penalty experts Carolyn Hoyle and Parvais Jabbar explain the route to abolition in Zimbabwe for The Conversation Weekly ...

Kenyans will now have opportunity to interact more with their colonial history after the United Kingdom relinquished ...

Christmas pudding is a relatively recent concoction of two older, at least medieval, dishes. The first was a runny porridge ...

Exhibitions at Tate Modern, British Museum, Foundling Museum, Serpentine and London Museum Docklands featuring Picasso Prints ...

President William Ruto has received colonial files from the United Kingdom High Commissioner Neil Wigan asserting the ...

A recent ruling by the Johannesburg high court in South Africa has put the definition and control of the “family house” under ...

The Carolina Corps achieved emancipation through military service, paving the way for future fighters in the British Empire ...

Loewenson’s project, “Black Papers: Beyond the Politics of Land, Towards African Policies of Earth & Air,” explores the social and spatial dynamics in modern Africa.