Decolonization gets the ultimate needle-drop treatment in the documentary “Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat” from Belgian filmmaker Johan Grimonprez. It’s a dazzling, tune-filled collage of images, words ...

When African countries gained independence from their colonial rulers, they faced many changes. One of the most important changes for many countries was switching from the colonial currency to their ...

Juneteenth is widely celebrated within the United States, marking the day that freedom reached all slaves in Confederate states during the American Civil War. Ultimately, chattel slavery was outlawed ...

By Obed KOG\xa0Pan-Africanism was born as an act of defiance. It emerged from the conviction that Africa’s fragmentation was ...

In the brief history of African decolonisation, it was a watershed year. Seventeen African territories won their independence from their European colonial masters that year. These ranged from Nigeria ...

Eastern Africa has the oldest and the youngest independent states in Africa. Ethiopia is said to date from Solomon’s day and has verifiable beginnings about the beginning of the Christian era. Its ...

The new domain : architecture at the time of liberation / Manuel Herz -- Ghana -- Architecture after independence / Hannah Le Roux -- Senegal -- Henri Chomette : Africa as a terrain of architectural ...

Andrée Blouin’s revolutionary lives. The African political leader’s autobiography, My Country, Africa, also offers a larger story of empire, oppression, and resistance on the continent. Throughout the ...

He rebelled against efforts to force African ways of thinking into the European worldview. His thoughts had the effect of a bomb in African intellectual life. By Adam Nossiter Paulin Hountondji, a ...

These nations chose to stick with the colonial currencies for various reasons. While some countries made bold decisions to change their names, flags, or national symbols to reflect their newfound ...