People in Africa were burdened by colonial perceptions of who they were. The British believed Africans were essentially different from Europeans and would stay that way. This point of view invited ...

Some of these colonies were given to Britain, which further increased its strength and influence in Africa. The impact of British control over countries such as Nigeria, Ghana and South Africa can ...

One of the most distant British colonies, Australia is both a country ... and some of the best coral reef diving in the world ...

The historic Battle of Isandlwana's 146th anniversary came alive as history enthusiasts, including British soldiers and local ...

Around 1750, the British mainland American colonies had a population of approximately ... Each year 3,500 black captives arrived from Africa or the Caribbean. Nearly 1 in 5 Americans, or 300,000 ...

She grew up between Central African Republic (CAR) and Congo-Brazzaville, which at the time were French colonies named Ubangi-Shari and the French Congo respectively. In the 1940s, her two-year ...

During the escalating conflicts with the British army, some African Americans ... representatives of the thirteen rebellious colonies meeting in the Continental Congress voted to halt the slave ...

Over the following century, it became a truly cosmopolitan port city as people from across western Africa and the Americas made it their home. But Freetown’s British colonial rulers struggled to ...