By 1619, more than a century and a half after the Portuguese first traded slaves on the African coast, European ships had brought a million Africans to colonies and plantations in the Americas and ...

Debating Ideas reflects the values and editorial ethos of the African Arguments book series, publishing engaged, often radical, scholarship, original and activist writing from within the African ...

Historically, European countries had only been interested ... The British exploited many of their African colonies for natural resources, such as gold, rubber and oil, making huge profits which ...

African leaders meeting in Ethiopia this weekend are to launch a new push for slavery and colonial reparations, but can expect to be stonewalled by former colonial powers, most of which have ruled out ...

an ethnic group in South Africa made up of descendants of European colonists, mostly from the Netherlands, who first arrived there in the 1600s. Until the 1990s, White South Africans of European ...

The CFA franc (Franc des Colonies Francais d’Afrique) was introduced in 1945, well before France’s decolonization in the late 1950s, as a way for France to control the economies of its African ...