People in Africa were burdened by colonial perceptions of who they were ... Cameroun and Somalia became independent of British rule. Nigeria, because of its size and strong regional power bases ...

British colonial rule in Nigeria lasted for decades, shaping the country’s political, economic, and social structures. Today, several places across Nigeria still bear the marks of this era ...

The main thread running through the narrative is provided by the British empire in Africa but Belgian and Portuguese rule are also studied. Topics covered include pre-colonial African kingdoms, the ...

A collection of Zimbabwean stone sculptures will be the centerpiece of an exhibition at Oxford University meant to ...

Slavery has deep historical roots in african societies. Long before the seventeenth century, when Europeans began to buy vast numbers of slaves for their New World colonies, many Africans had been ...

“We could no longer move from Fontem [which was under British rule] to the market in ... the specialist in colonial and post-colonial Africa, particularly Cameroonian nationalism and political ...

One was named Maji-Maji-Allee to remember the Maji Maji Rebellion against colonial rule in German East Africa. The other ... plundered from Benin City by British troops, and details about the ...

This course examines and debates the nature of colonial rule in Africa, its impact and its legacy ... It often uses case studies from the British Empire in Africa and the Belgian Empire but ‘other ...

The southern African country has long used stone sculpture as a form of storytelling to immortalize history. The craft survived close to a century of colonial rule that sought to erase local ...