Comprehensive coverage of Africa's colonial period. Explore the Scramble for Africa, colonial governance, economic exploitation, and the lasting impacts of European imperialism.
A Zulu pastor travels to Johannesburg seeking his missing son, uncovering racial injustice, crime, and shattered families in apartheid-era South Africa—a powerful cry for reconciliation and hope.
In the 1640s a Mbundu queen, a Kongolese king, and the Dutch came within a breath of driving Portugal out of West-Central Africa. This is how they nearly won — and how the kingdom that first welcomed the caravel ended in fragments.
For a century, Portuguese navigators produced the most precise coastal survey in the world and named the shoreline after whatever could be carried onto a ship. The map they drew had no inside, and the shape of that map is still visible in the continent's ports, railways and reputation.
Through his chosen characters, Sembène Ousmane captures important truths in God's Bits of Wood. Penda, though labeled a whore, stands out because she refuses to succumb to the labels placed on her.
“The day will come when history will speak… Africa will write its own history… It will be a history of glory and dignity.”
- Patrice Lumumba
Early Life
Patrice Lumumba
Nestled strategically along the East African coast, Mombasa is Kenya’s second largest city and a key regional commercial hub. Long before Europeans stormed the region in the 15th century,
Mozambique, a scenic country in Southeast Africa, was one of the last African countries to gain independence from European colonial powers. For nearly 500 years, the Portuguese subjected the people
The Rwandan Genocide of 1994 is one of the darkest moments in modern history, immortalised in the hearts of those who witnessed it but also to the rest of the
Congo, formerly the Congo Free State (CFS), stands as one of the world’s poorest countries with a GDP per capita of $456.89. The Africa Business Insider ranks her 5th on the tally of poorest countries around the globe.
