Ibrahim Traore of Burkina Faso might wonder why especially makes his life so difficult among other nations like the USA .

That was Tanganyika during World War I, where one of history’s boldest underdog stories unfolded, right here in East Africa.

A conversation with Greg Grandin about his groundbreaking new book America, América: A New History of the New World.

The pan-Germanic imperialism after the German unification in 1871 was primarily directed towards the East under the motto ...

I found myself inventing that verse as today’s headline. The verse came sounding like “The Lord is my shepherd/ I Shall not want…” The twenty-third Psalm. Yesterday was Easter Sunday; today is Easter ...

White Afrikaners, most of who espoused little affection for the British Empire, served in their thousands during the 1914-18 campaigns in Germany's South West and East Africa colonies ... today to ...

The Warburton Theater, 45 Warburton Avenue         By Mary Hoar, City of Yonkers Historian, President Emeritus Yonkers Historical Society, recipient of the 2004 Key to History, Yonkers Landmarks ...

The repatriation of African art is gaining momentum, but a number of highly important and symbolic pieces remain in the hands ...

Badawi’s encyclopedic survey of African history is an important installment in the current wave of scholarship on the deep histories of African societies.

From an African perspective, what should be remembered about Pope Francis? Pope Francis should be remembered as a post-colonial pope who acknowledged the intertwined histories of ecclesial ...

Madagascar disputes France's ownership of several small islets nearby called the Scattered Islands that stayed under French rule when its other African colonies became independent. Rajoelina said ...