African governments have criticized a speech by French President Emmanuel Macron in which he said that some leaders showed ...

Disappointed with the international order, African countries, despite the failings of their own leaders, have been ...

President Bassirou Diomaye Faye called for certain main roads bearing colonial names to be renamed in honor of 'national ...

Ivory Coast announced on Tuesday that French troops will leave the country after a decadeslong military presence, the latest ...

Several African nations have expelled French troops, signaling a significant decline in the former colonial power’s influence ...

Those Opulent Days,” the debut novel of Jacquie Pham, is a whodunit and grim coming-of-age story. Pham lays out an enticing, ...

Experts say they are following the example of Sahel countries as local leaders and populations want more sovereignty over ...

In his play Vielleicht, French-Ivorian director Cédric Djedje lays bare Germany's colonial past, through the story of the 40-year struggle of Afro-descendants to change the names of three streets ...

France's reputation in its former African colonies has been tainted for a while. A recent speech by President Emmanuel Macron might deepen the divide.

Where does France have troops in West Africa, and why? Since the independence of French colonies in Africa, France has maintained a policy of economic, political and military sway dubbed ...

Jean-Marie Le Pen, father of Marine Le Pen and the defining figure of France’s postwar far-right movement, has died at the ...