When is Mardi Gras? Why Fat Tuesday is celebrated, the origins of the holiday
The Carnival season, or Mardi Gras season, officially begins on Epiphany, Jan. 6, and lasts through Fat Tuesday.
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From street names to textbooks, Senegal is rewriting French colonial memory
Indeed, streets in the capital city and across Senegal were originally named by the French colonial government and honoured officials or royals of the French empire. Decades after independence ...
Algeria moves to criminalise French colonialism amid diplomatic tensions with Paris
Algeria's parliament has established a commission to draft a law criminalising French colonial rule (1830-1962), a move deemed "historical" amid escalating diplomatic tensions between the two ...
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Algeria bans French aid to private schools amid rising tension
Due to the growing dispute between the two countries, the Algerian government has begun suspending the decades-long arrangement.
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The colonial partition that keeps Cameroon split along ‘artificial lines’
He noted that many Francophone Cameroonians historically migrated to English-speaking regions due to the oppressive nature of French colonial rule. “After the Berlin Conference, many ...
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Algeria blames French far right as relations with former colonial ruler fray
French President Emmanuel Macron (L) meets his Algerian counterpart Abdelmadjid Tebboune on the sidelines of a G7 summit in Italy in June. — Ludovic MARIN Relations between France and Algeria have hit ...