UPDATES with French response on unpaid pension. Pictures by John Wessels. Video by Magatte Gaye "They made us join up to wage war," said Ndiogou Dieye, 103, casting his memory back more than eight ...

France never really came to terms with its colonial heritage or its colonial mindset. French colonizers went to the Americas in the 16th century, and a hundred years later set up a number of ...

French President Emmanuel Macron pauses as he delivers a speech during a meeting in memory of the Algerians who fought alongside French colonial forces in Algeria's war, known as Harkis, at the Elysee ...

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. A visitor looks at wooden royal statues of the Dahomey Kingdom, dated 19th ...

There has been much reflecting on Pacific colonial legacies of late. With the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) in Apia, Samoa, from October 21, light harshly shone on the British ...

France's parliament on Monday approved returning to Ivory Coast a "talking drum" that colonial troops took from the Ebrie tribe in 1916, in the latest boost to the repatriation of colonial spoils. The ...

Placards and slogans against France that surfaced in demonstrations against impeached President Andry Rajoelina this week ...

Investigations into one of the worst massacres in France's colonial history took a step forward on Thursday when researchers presented an official report to Senegalese President Bassirou Diomaye Faye.