“Before the pilgrims landed at Plymouth, we were here,” Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. eloquently wrote. “Before the pen of ...

Narrator: In the 1950s and 60s, many colonised countries that were part of the British Empire gained their independence. Ghana was one of the first African countries to do this. It had been part ...

However, this all changed in 2011 when 99% of South Sudanese voters chose to secede from Sudan and South Sudan officially ...

Many people in Somaliland are convinced that the United States, under the incoming presidency of Donald Trump, is poised to ...

In the 1950s and 60s, her mother, the late Andrée Blouin, threw herself into the fight for a free Africa, mobilising the ...

Jimmy Carter was the first U.S. president to make a state visit to sub-Saharan Africa. The African continent, a booming ...

a West African country which was also governed by the French. At the time, Guinea was in the midst of a "political tempest", she wrote. France had promised the country independence, but also ...

threw herself into the fight for a free Africa, mobilising the Democratic Republic of Congo's women against colonialism and rising to become a key adviser to Patrice Lumumba, DR Congo's first prime ...