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

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

The draft law, which seeks to criminalise France’s colonial rule in Algeria between 1830 and 1962, was introduced in the People’s National Assembly, Algeria’s lower house of parliament, on Saturday.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

To speak today of the French Colonial Empire is, of course, to speak of something belonging to the past. Juridically speaking, the Empire replaced it by the vague and never clearly defined concept of ...

This article was originally published by The Conversation. Read the original article. The 2017 French election was watched with great nervousness by millions across Francophone Africa. That's because ...