In his post-amalgamation report to the Colonial Office, Lord Lugard proclaimed triumphantly the "astonishing results" of the administrative merger of the Northern and Southern protectorates that ...

One of his claims was that Kenyans speak “some of the best English in the world” — and then, noticing that the audience was ...

In the second part of the series, we established that the widely repeated claim that Europeans remained confined to the ...

Introduction : Mauritius has spent nearly six decades defying the predictions made about its bleak future by Nobel economist James Meade in 1961. The second part of this six-part series of essays - to ...

…Our problem isn’t colonialism. it’s the story we tell about it…Let me say something that will probably irritate a lot of people: the most important constraint on Ghana’s, and much of Sub-Sahara’s, ...

President Cyril Ramaphosa says government is reforming and strengthening the criminal justice system, rooting out corruption and building a police service and a prosecuting authority in which people ...

Thirty-two years ago, on the 27th of April 1994, South Africa was born. The morning of the 27 April 1994 did not begin like an ordinary day. It began with great anticipation, excitement and a ...

King Charles III frequently visited the United States over the course of his 64 years as Prince of Wales. Here's a list of ...

"Hadejia is a large town with 5 town gates and excellent walls about 30 feet high and 30 feet thick. The gates are protected ...

In the concluding part of this interview, Prof Ademola Dasylva, a retired Professor of African and Oral literature, and ...

Beninese singer-songwriter Angelique Kidjo poses in the press room with the award for Best World Music Album for "Celia" ...