Far from merely being an internal event, the Benin coup attempt briefly placed the geopolitics of the entire region under a ...

Ever since Eric Williams published his book Capitalism and Slavery, which demonstrated to those more inclined to weigh ...

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

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

Imran Mulla's compelling new book of dynasties and destinies dashed - taking in Turkey, France, the UK, Palestine and India - ...

But young Palestinians have never forgotten the anger of earlier generations over the giveaway of lands they stood to govern ...

Military coupists like Burkina Faso’s Ibrahim Traoré and Mali’s Assimi Goïta have not only attracted domestic support but ...

A carefully chosen list of non fiction books that explain power, inequality and systems shaping the modern world beyond ...

Louvre theft reignites questions over universal museums imperial legacies and restitution as art crime exposes how conquest ...

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

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 ...

This would then be followed by full independence towards the end of 1964. Duncan Sandys, the British Secretary of State for the Colonies, was therefore taken aback when, in July 1963, Kenyan ...