Even encountering African Christian communities, Europeans labeled local practices as heretical, justifying colonization and ...

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has said democracy as a system of government has failed on the African continent because ...

click image for close-up Click here for the text of this historical document. In 1787, two decades before African colonization by American-born blacks became a national debate, Boston's Black ...

The American Colonization Society, founded in 1816 to assist free black people in emigrating to Africa, was the brainchild of the Reverend Robert Finley, a Presbyterian minister from Basking Ridge ...

Sam Nujoma, the founding president of Namibia, has died at the ripe age of ninety five at a time of widespread global anxieties and unease. Popularly regarded as the father of modern Namibia, the ...

"The decision to classify slavery, deportation, and colonization as crimes against humanity and genocide against the peoples of Africa is a crucial step ... this resolution could encourage initiatives ...

Only 26 African countries had achieved independence when, in February 1961, Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie ascended a sloping staircase to inaugurate Africa Hall in Addis Ababa, which he gifted ...