Senegal distances itself from colonial past, following trend sweeping across West and Central Africa since 2022.

In Senegal, streets named after French colonial figures are being changed to names of prominent people from Senegal. The move comes as the West African country is rethinking its ties with France and ...

Algerian speaker says France carried out 17 nuclear tests on its territory during its colonial era - Anadolu Ajansı ...

France and Senegal have created a commission for coordinating the withdrawal of French troops from the African country.

The European Commission has suspended payments to the 79-member Organisation of African, Caribbean and Pacific States, or ...

Now there is no public support for sending any more troops to Africa even if they are requested by beleaguered African governments. Those African political crises have been a regular feature of ...

The artist’s exhibition challenges colonial looting and the fight to reclaim Africa’s stolen cultural heritage ...

France’s influence in Africa is weakening, but it hasn’t disappeared. While political ties are fading, its economic grip ...

Saikat Majumdar’s new book explores the rise of amateurs as a response to colonial rule, and its current form, embodied by ...

The CFA franc (Franc des Colonies Francais d’Afrique) was introduced in 1945, well before France’s decolonization in the late 1950s, as a way for France to control the economies of its African ...

"What is evident is that Benin is now at war--a war waged by French imperialism through proxy jihadist forces," argues Damien Zinsou Degbe of Benin's Council of Patriotic Youth, which has organized ...