Palestine 36’ is a potent reminder that the blueprint for Israel's depraved war crimes in Gaza were laid down by a British ...

In the months after the end of the Second World War, around 200 socialists and other radicals met at the Fifth Pan-African ...

We are again living through a credibility test of the international system — and once again, a great power has elevated an ...

Amin and the Ugandan dictator who succeeded him, Yoweri Museveni, are the twin subjects of a new book, Slow Poison, an ...

For thousands of years, monarchies have risen, collapsed, and vanished entirely. Yet a small number of royal families have ...

At the solemn commemoration of the 81st anniversary of the 'Thiaroye Massacre' of World War II veterans in Senegal, His Excellency President Adama Barrow, commended his Senegalese counterpart ...

The Algerian state that they helped create in a bitter anti-colonial war with France became a colonial state itself, they ...

As an American living in Britain in the 1990s, my first exposure to Christmas pudding was something of a shock. I had expected figs or plums, as in the “We Wish You a Merry Christmas” carol, but there ...

Information has emerged about plans by some African leaders to seek compensation from the United Kingdom for crimes committed during the colonial era. The move gathered momentum at a recent high-level ...

Cyprus, 1950s–60s. An island divided between Greek Cypriots, Turkish Cypriots, and the British Empire becomes the battleground for one of the Cold War’s most explosive regional crises.What begins as a ...

Leo Tolstoy’s letters to Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi between 1908 and 1910 profoundly shaped the philosophy of Ahimsa and ...

In Unbroken Chains: a 5000 year history of African enslavement (Hurst, 2025) former BBC Africa Editor, Martin Plaut, provides a much-needed survey of slavery in Africa. He reveals to the general ...