Africans offered tough love for their leaders and expressed hope for the future Tuesday as they assessed progress since 1960, the year that brought independence to a third of the continent. Former U.N ...

JOHANNESBURG — Africans offered tough love for their leaders and expressed hope for the future today as they assessed progress since 1960, the year that brought independence to a third of the ...

She’s a high school girl delighted with her first miniskirt and devastated by assassinations back in America. She’s the girl’s mother, coolly handling a telephone call from school, and the girl’s ...

Sixty-five years ago, 14 African countries gained independence from France. DW examines how they have developed since then — and how much influence the former colonial power still wields today. "Sixty ...

When Nigeria became a sovereign nation in1960, expectations were high not only in Africa but in the world at large. The reasons for this was the size of the new nation and its considerable natural ...

The year 1960 was to be crucial for Africa: 17 sub-Saharan countries became independent from their European colonisers, 14 of them from France. Harold Macmillan delivers his Wind of Change speech ...

The assassination of Chris Hani in April 1993 was a decisive moment in South Africa’s transition to democracy. Nelson Mandela ...

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