The United States is a melting pot, and all the many countries who colonized the land left behind evidence of their own styles. There is Spanish, French, Dutch, and British Colonial architecture ...

The draft law, which seeks to criminalise France’s colonial rule in Algeria between 1830 and 1962, was introduced in the ...

Algerian legislators have declared France's colonization a crime, demanding restitution for property taken during its ...

The People's National Assembly, the lower house of Algeria' parliament, began debating a draft law on Saturday seeking to criminalize French colonization. This legislative move is a step in ...

Political instability in former French colonies in Africa is fast gaining prominence with the latest military takeover happening in Gabon. Gabonese President Ali Bongo was all but set to extend his 14 ...

Algeria’s new law declares French colonial rule a crime, seeking accountability and reparations for the colonial past.

General Louis Faidherbe, who ended up becoming the colonial administrator of Senegal, was the first French official to recognize the riches and resources of West Africa, making the region known as a ...

Almost four million men, women and children lived as slaves in the French colonies until the abolition of the slave trade in 1848. Thousands of French citizens in those former colonies are the ...

May 7, 2024, marked the 70th anniversary of the battle of Dien Bien Phu, when Vietnamese troops defeated the French colonial army, ending almost a century of French colonial rule. A commemoration ...

Members of the French union CGT Martinique perform a go-slow protest on the ring road leading to the airport in Fort-de-France, on the French Caribbean island of Martinique, on Oct. 15, 2024. Philippe ...

HANOI, Vietnam — A tall, blond woman in black and a small Asian girl stand at the prow of a gilded barge moving slowly over a wide, junglebanked river. The woman is Catherine Deneuve, star of the 1992 ...