Colonial Rule

Indlamu: The Zulu War Dance's Real, More Complicated History (Article)
Nigeria's Independence Day, October 1, 1960 (Article)
France Returns 26 Looted Treasures to Benin, 129 Years Later (Article)
Tanganyika's Independence, December 9, 1961 (Article)
British Colonial Atrocities During Kenya's Mau Mau Uprising (1952-1960) (Article)
Macmillan's 'Wind of Change' Speech and Settler Backlash in Kenya (Article)
The Liberation of Ethiopia and Haile Selassie's 1941 Return to Addis Ababa (Article)
Haile Selassie at the Front: His Own Wartime Record Against the 1935-36 Italian Invasion (Article)
Malcolm X's 1964 Praise for Kenya's Mau Mau Freedom Fighters (Article)
Haile Selassie's 1936 Appeal to the League of Nations (Article)
Dar es Salaam: From Sultan's Port to Tanzania's Commercial Capital (Article)
Congo's Independence Day, 1960: Baudouin's Speech and Lumumba's Reply (Article)
Belgium's Métis Children: From a 2019 Apology to a 2024 Crimes-Against-Humanity Ruling (Article)
The Herero and Nama Genocide, and Germany's Unresolved Reparations Question (Article)
The Battle of Isandlwana, 1879: The Zulu Kingdom's Victory Over the British (Article)
Rhodesia's 1965 UDI and Pan-African Protest Against White-Minority Rule (Article)
The Congo Free State: Leopold II's Personal Colony and Its Death Toll (Article)
George Washington Williams' 1890 Letter That Named Leopold's Crimes (Article)
Portugal's Founding Role in the Transatlantic Slave Trade (Article)
The University of Aberdeen's Return of a Benin Bronze (Article)
The Third Anglo-Ashanti War and the Burning of Kumasi, 1873–1874 (Article)
The Church of England's Benin Bronzes Pledge: What It Actually Covers (Article)
Yaa Asantewaa and the War of the Golden Stool (Article)
The Battle of Adwa: How Ethiopia Defeated Italy in 1896 (Article)
Britain's Transatlantic Slave Trade, by the Numbers (Article)
Germany's Herero and Nama Genocide in Namibia, 1904-1908 (Article)
The Slave Dungeons of Elmina Castle (Article)
Queen Njinga of Ndongo and Matamba: Four Decades Against the Portuguese (Article)
Kruger National Park: Roughly the Size of New Jersey, Built From Two Colonial-Era Reserves (Article)
Béhanzin: The Last Independent King of Dahomey (Article)
The CFA Franc: France's Colonial-Era Currency Arrangement and Its Contested Legacy (Article)
Kenya's Independence and the Road to Jamhuri Day (Article)
The 1947 NCNC Delegation to London and the Fight Against the Richards Constitution (Article)
Botswana's 1966 Independence and Its Record of Democratic Stability (Article)
The Battle of Nsamankow: How the Asante Killed a British Governor (Article)
Revenge for Adwa: Mussolini's 1935 Invasion and the African-Americans Who Tried to Fight It (Article)
The Dahomey Amazons: The Kingdom's All-Female Army (Article)
The Anglo-Ashanti Wars: A Century of Resistance in the Gold Coast (Article)
Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart: The Novel That Launched African Literature in English (Article)
Walter Rodney's How Europe Underdeveloped Africa: The 1972 Book That Reframed Colonialism as Theft (Article)
Elizabeth Became Queen in a Kenyan Treehouse, Not London (Article)
Nigeria's 1914 Amalgamation: A Budget Fix That Created a Country (Article)
The 1897 Sack of Benin City and the Looting of the Benin Bronzes (Article)
Virunga, Africa's Oldest National Park, Born as a Colonial Science Reserve (Article)
Lake Kariba, the Colonial Dam That Displaced 57,000 Tonga People (Article)
Why Nyasaland Chose the Name Malawi at Independence (Article)
How a Royal Title Became the Name 'Angola' (Article)
Uganda's Independence, October 9, 1962 (Article)
The 1926 Drive That Opened East Africa's Roads to the Motorcar (Article)
How Belgium's 1933 ID Cards Hardened Rwanda's Ethnic Divide (Article)
Saint-Louis: The Island City That Ruled Three French Colonies (Article)
How Durban Overcame a Killer Sandbar to Become Southern Africa's Busiest Port (Article)
Victoria, Seychelles: One of the World's Smallest National Capitals (Article)
The Asante Empire: How a Confederation of Akan Chiefdoms Built West Africa's Toughest Military Power (Article)
The Ethiopian Empire: 700 Years of Unbroken Rule, and the Battle That Kept It Free (Article)
The Kingdom of Kongo at Its Peak, and How Portugal Ended It (Article)
The Mutapa Empire: Great Zimbabwe's Successor, and a Size Claim Historians Still Dispute (Article)
Independence Movements & Decolonization: How Africa Broke Free from Colonial Rule (Pillar)
Atlantic Slave Trade & Early Colonial Contact (Era)
The Colonial Era & the Scramble for Africa (Era)