The Belgian colonial presence in the Congo included viciously extractive colonists who cut ... razed most of its own forests ...

A new history of Indonesia’s fight for independence reveals the cruel means by which the Dutch tried to hold on to their colony.

The author Adam Hochschild recommends books that vividly illustrate moments of great change. This is an edition of the Books ...

The United States started out as 13 separate British colonies that didn’t always get along with each other. After the ...

Then a sleepy town, Ndola was yanked to global prominence overnight on 17 September 1961, when the DC6-B, the Albertina, crashed there with ...

Sammy Baloji’s work allows us to revisit the DRC’s past and explore how art can help us understand decolonisation.

This article explores the current crisis in the Democratic Republic of Congo and highlights the media bias in the lack of ...

Orphaned when he was 11, Isaiah Mwesige of Uganda got a job as a caddie. Now he helps other kids find new lives through golf.

Dieudonné Niyitegeka and Eugène Mbarushimana are the only two surviving former members of the National Committee of the Interahamwe, the militia that spearheaded the genocide of Tutsis in Rwanda in ...

In Kivu, DRC, conflict and instability has long made coffee farming dangerous and difficult. Nespresso, however, is investing ...

The UN on Friday launched an urgent appeal for humanitarian assistance for millions of people affected by conflict in the ...

For his forthcoming one from the heart, Megalopolis, Francis Ford Coppola has once again violated the cardinal rule of the ...