The United States is a melting pot, and all the many countries who colonized the land left behind evidence of their own styles. There is Spanish, French, Dutch, and British Colonial architecture ...

The draft law, which seeks to criminalise France’s colonial rule in Algeria between 1830 and 1962, was introduced in the People’s National Assembly, Algeria’s lower house of parliament, on Saturday.

Political instability in former French colonies in Africa is fast gaining prominence with the latest military takeover happening in Gabon. Gabonese President Ali Bongo was all but set to extend his 14 ...

General Louis Faidherbe, who ended up becoming the colonial administrator of Senegal, was the first French official to recognize the riches and resources of West Africa, making the region known as a ...

Algeria’s new law declares French colonial rule a crime, seeking accountability and reparations for the colonial past.

To speak today of the French Colonial Empire is, of course, to speak of something belonging to the past. Juridically speaking, the Empire replaced it by the vague and never clearly defined concept of ...

In 1848, before the age of the 'new imperialism', France already claimed an overseas empire extending from the Americas to Africa and the Indian Ocean. The sole North American possession France ...

May 7, 2024, marked the 70th anniversary of the battle of Dien Bien Phu, when Vietnamese troops defeated the French colonial army, ending almost a century of French colonial rule. A commemoration ...

Throughout this French-speaking zone of former French colonies, the national currency of almost all of these countries is, in fact, itself a derivative of the French franc. That shows the degree to ...

HANOI, Vietnam — A tall, blond woman in black and a small Asian girl stand at the prow of a gilded barge moving slowly over a wide, junglebanked river. The woman is Catherine Deneuve, star of the 1992 ...