In December 2006, statisticians had a close brush with the aftermath of the five-nation war in the Democratic Republic of Congo. This was a war that had started in 1998 and ended around 2003.

I use the case of Italian colonialism in the Horn of Africa to demonstrate these multiple roles colonial boundaries can occupy and focus specifically on the creation and contestations of the borders ...

France has handed over control to the Senegalese government of two military bases in Senegal’s capital, Dakar that it has ...

Africa has the most countries of any continent ... Ultimately, The Gambia’s borders were shaped by colonial interests and British military power, leaving it as a long, narrow enclave within ...

One was named Maji-Maji-Allee to remember the Maji Maji Rebellion against colonial rule in German East Africa. The other was ...

In Africa, however, colonial legacies remain deeply felt. This divide became painfully clear when a delegate of African descent attended an International Red Cross conference in Berlin and ...

Addis Abeba — The African Union (AU) has consistently stood for self-determination, decolonization, and the inviolability of colonial borders. Yet it is inconsistent in extending these principles to ...